CompuBox Analysis: Juan Manuel Marquez-Joel Casamayor

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By CompuBox - Recent events in the careers of Joel Casamayor and Juan Manuel Marquez prove that not every victory has the power to elevate and not every defeat diminishes a boxer’s standing.

Two fights ago Casamayor retained his Ring Magazine lightweight championship with a hotly disputed split decision over Jose Armando Santa Cruz, a man who appeared to trump Casamayor in every conceivable way save for name recognition. Despite being declared the winner, Casamayor was labeled as washed-up and ripe for the taking by most observers and was all but left for dead when he signed to meet the Gatti-esque Australian sensation Michael Katsidis. Anxious to prove a point, Casamayor dropped Katsidis twice in the first round and survived a mid-fight surge to emerge with a 10th round TKO victory that restored some of the luster he lost against Santa Cruz.

Meanwhile Marquez lost a controversial split decision to Manny Pacquiao in his last outing March 8 in a bout that saw the Mexican establish numerical, if not strategic, superiority. The message boards were ablaze with debates about who really won the fight and the closeness of the bout convinced most boxing writers to keep Marquez comfortably within their top 10 pound for pound lists. [details]

[gibo]

i hope Marquez whips Joel "Dirty" Casamayor. better yet I hope he beat him into retirement. JMM is a great fighter!!!

[v.cassiusali@ya]

marquez will win this one. but he must be careful with old casamayor. the old man may use everything he learned in his boxing career including his head and elbow when needed.

old casamayor will employ the advise of ugly boy floyd how to win against marquez' style. ugly boy floyd told him to use the technique he used against ricky hatton.

[v.cassiusali@ya]

marquez will win this one. but he must be careful with old casamayor. the old man may use everything he learned in his boxing career including his head and elbow when needed.

old casamayor will employ the advise of ugly boy floyd how to win against marquez' style. ugly boy floyd told him to use the technique he used against hatton.

[Jamaro85]

Can't believe this fight is PPV. Gonna have to avoid all boxing news for a week until its On Demand I guess

[warp1432]

Can't believe this fight is PPV. Gonna have to avoid all boxing news for a week until its On Demand I guess

Why not just download it or youtube it the day after?

[Allucard]

By CompuBox - Recent events in the careers of Joel Casamayor and Juan Manuel Marquez prove that not every victory has the power to elevate and not every defeat diminishes a boxer’s standing.

Two fights ago Casamayor retained his Ring Magazine lightweight championship with a hotly disputed split decision over Jose Armando Santa Cruz, a man who appeared to trump Casamayor in every conceivable way save for name recognition. Despite being declared the winner, Casamayor was labeled as washed-up and ripe for the taking by most observers and was all but left for dead when he signed to meet the Gatti-esque Australian sensation Michael Katsidis. Anxious to prove a point, Casamayor dropped Katsidis twice in the first round and survived a mid-fight surge to emerge with a 10th round TKO victory that restored some of the luster he lost against Santa Cruz.

Meanwhile Marquez lost a controversial split decision to Manny Pacquiao in his last outing March 8 in a bout that saw the Mexican establish numerical, if not strategic, superiority. The message boards were ablaze with debates about who really won the fight and the closeness of the bout convinced most boxing writers to keep Marquez comfortably within their top 10 pound for pound lists. [details]

Katsidis must be the best case of FAILED corruption in the sport. I'll explain, after his last fight where one judge gave him the fight he would otherwise have lost by UD (in a shameful attempt to give him the win) i was thinking that maybe letting Casamayor win vs Cruz was a preparation the the arise of yet another FAKE sensation in boxing. I can think of many fighters, in Katsidis place, that would have pulled that little trick sucessfuly.

[ferocity]

Can't belive this there only 1 year and a few months apart in age. I used to read how Jose Napoles turned his career around at 30 something and now more and more fighters are doing good well past 30 years old.