He’s Not Heavy, He’s a Brother

[DIEGO DA HITMAN]

I had Pacquiao winning the first bout, 113-112, and that was giving a couple of the closer rounds to Marquez. I had the first round, 10-6. I'm not sure how you could even justify 10-7. Then I had Marquez winning 7 of the final 11 rounds. Even though, in my opinion, Juan Manuel won more rounds, that first round was the difference, and Manny should've gotten the nod. But was he robbed? I think that's a slight exaggeration. And will Pacman finish him off early? Did he finish Barrera in the rematch? How about Solis? Manny's seemed to lack the killer instinct he had against Barrera the first go round, and against Morales in the last two bouts of the trilogy. If he shows up with that killer instinct, I think he can finish Marquez off in the latter rounds, but I expect a twelve round decision. I see Pacquiao winning seven or eight rounds, and getting the nod in a competitive fight.

I do realize he stopped Solis in eight, but I really didn't expect that fight to go beyond the third round. So before, I get corrected, I'll put that out there.

[Sin City]

Wow.. Haven't seen such a bias article in a real long time..
I'm not surprised though, after all it is Katz. He's one of the Pac fan boys of the site.

[DrewWoodside]

Pacman may not get the chance to drop JMM in this fight but I also don't expect JMM to counter punch Pacman so easily and consistently. I think it's gonna be a close decision won by Pac over a bloodied JMM.

[Gareth Ivanovic]

Im suprised how Katz thinks this is going to be an easy and quick vicotory for Pac. IMO Marquez is better than that and has been determined and training so hard under the guidance of Nacho Beristain that you know he'll be ready for whatever comes his way. I think it will be a very close fight and one that JMM barely wins.

[karlobarlo]

I agree with the Author's assessment of the last fight between the two!
I am pissed off when JMM often claimed that he won there first fight!
Thank God, Guy Jutras is not one of the judge this coming saturday~~~

Pacquiao scored 3 KD in the 1st rnd, and relentlessly attack his foe the whole fight... Yes, he got countered many times but at the same time he was the one doing more damage to his opponent~~~ If JMM was winning in there exchanges, Manny should have slowed down...
The first 2 rounds belongs to Pacquiao & the rest was pretty even...

Pacman will KO JMM this time around!!! He knows that its difficult to leave your life in balance to the judges hands....

What are you talking about? Why would Manny necessarily need to slow down if Marquez was winning exchanges. That is total crap mate. The fact is this Manny pulversised Marquez in the first and then caught him plenty in the second. But the rest of that fight he got countered beautifully. Sure he landed a few but Marquez clearly landed more and those that he landed were more damaging. I still had Manny winning by a round maybe two, but only because of the first and second. If you were to judge the fight on the last ten Marquez won easily. This is just a fact man, no point in trying to argue that becasue Manny relentlessly pursued Maruez for the rest of that fight that that somehow means he won the rest of teh fight. He didnt. If this fight was being rematched back in 2004, id choose Marquez immediatley. Now with age and the increased weight, I favour Manny again. Though something tells me that JMM could counter his way to a long victory!

[juancho]

cotdayum, talk about bitter bias.

thats wat im saying

[aztec_warriors]

BY MICHAEL KATZ - Oh, brother, and I don’t mean which Klitschko is next for the evergreen Samuel Peter. Brother acts in boxing, generally, have been more successful than say brother acts in the Bible, which started with Cain’s knockout of Abel and included Jacob’s rasslin’ victory over Esau and Joseph being sold out by his brethren. Two weeks after his younger brother, Rafael, lost in what will probably be the 2008 fight of the year, Juan Manuel Marquez probably will lose Saturday night in a possible FOY runnerup.

In a rematch of a remarkable 2004 scrap, the older of the Mexico City pound-for-pounders is about a 2-1 underdog, deservedly, to Manny Pacquiao, who also has a boxing brother. Bobby Pacquiao, who appears on a Vegas card the night before the big pay-per-view show at the Mandalay Bay, is not in the same class with his brother or Juan Manuel’s.

Yes, there is a strong preference here for Manny Pacquiao to end the long debate of who won their first meeting. Pacquiao knocked down a rather ****y and loose – trainer Nacho Beristain’s assessment – Marquez three times in the first round only to wind up with a draw. Never mind the scorecard of Burt Clements, who didn’t realize he could have scored the opening round 10-6, as did the other two official judges, instead of 10-7 and ended up having the bout a draw.

For four years, there has been a chorus of “experts” who claim Marquez got up and clearly dominated the rest of the bout. Give Marquez credit – he got up three times, including the third when he was hit while he was down (he said he was angrier with Referee Joe Cortez than he was with his opponent).

He shifted into his usual counter-punching mode and suddenly the southpaw Pacquiao’s left hands were falling short and the Mexican was raking him with right hands.

Yes, to a degree. But while Marquez incredibly fought his way back, he did not win. I don’t remember my ringside scorecard, but I had the Pac Man clearly ahead. I watched the HBO tape of the original again and, leaning over backwards for Marquez, still had the Filipino star ahead by three points. [details]

this article is garbage...
sounds like regurgitated rubbish from the MP forum

[Oasis_Lad]

He's heavy - He's Dino.

[Zarco]

What a nut hugger this writer here. Biased as hell too. How can you write an article proclaiming that one of the fighters is going to win, and quickly at that. Both of these dudes are legends and they are expected to give a hella of a fight.