Vazquez Decisions Marquez in a Thriller

[jcarr71]

It is the third best fight of my lifetime behind the first fights in the series of Chico/Castillo and Gatti/Ward. What a great fight.

[Silencers]

Chacon-Limon.

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Vazquez Decisions Marquez in a Thriller

By Sammy Rozenberg - The crowd at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California saw one of the greatest trilogy bouts in the history of the sport. Israel Vazquez (43-4, 31KOs) retained his WBC super bantamweight title by split decision over Rafael Marquez (37-5, 33KOs) after twelve-rounds of hell. The scores were 114-111 for Vazquez, 114-111 for Marquez and 113-112 for Vazquez.

Last March, Marquez moved up to 122-pounds and got off the floor in a vicious fight to stop Vazquez in the seventh round after Vazquez was unable to continue with a badly broken nose. A few months later in August, Vazquez got revenge in another exciting brawl to drop and stop Marquez in the seventh round.

The third fight began just as furious as the first two. Neither fighter was willing to work with a different script. The power punches flowed like a river in every round, but in the fourth, we saw a masterpiece. A left hand that was followed by an uppercut sent Vazquez down for the first time in the trilogy. As Marquez went for the finish, he was stunned by a hard right hand and it was Vazquez who tried to finish him off. Moments later, Marquez once again stunned Vazquez as they battled to the fourth-round bell.

After falling behind early, Vazquez continued to work his way into the fight with hard punches and body damage on the inside. In the tenth, Marquez lost a crucial point after being warned for numerous low blows during the fight. Marquez and Vazquez began to trade power punches in the eleventh as both of them tried to take the late round as they were both advised by their corners of the fight being very close. [details]

[GTL]

No I don't think so. Corrales-Castillo I, Gatti-Ward I, and many more. This deserves a top spot though, i was going nutts as well.

my thoughts exactly, word for word..

wut part of LI u from?

[The Monk]

Its going to be up there. It had everything other than a KO, and it came extremely close to that as well. Both fighters are warriors, and showed the heavyweights how it should be done.

[Silencers]

What a fight, best fight since Corrales-Castillo 1 IMO.

[bishop2006]

If they have a 4th fight...that would be something,they need 2 get paid MILLIONS for these battles

[USA4LIFE]

I am very proud to have witnessed that as well but I would have to disagree about the greatest trilogy IMO. It certainly was one of the best, but I thought there was more action in the Barrera-Morales trilogy. I think this will get more credit b/c there were more knock downs and two fights ended in TKo's.

[MELLY-MEL...]

top 5! awesome!

[USA4LIFE]

If they have a 4th fight...that would be something,they need 2 get paid MILLIONS for these battles

Yeah these guys deserve Mayweather money.