BoxingScene 2008 Year in Review: The Jr. Lightweights

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By Cliff Rold - 2008 was a year of endings and new beginnings at 130 lbs. The four-way Barrera-Pacquiao-Morales-Marquez dance may finally have seen a conclusion. If it did not, it certainly saw the end of its turns at Jr. Lightweight with Marquez gone to Lightweight and Pacquiao found at other destinations on the scale. Promising young titlist Edwin Valero vacated his WBA belt and moved to Lightweight while promising Featherweight titlists Robert Guerrero and Jorge Linares made 130 their new home. Add them to tough new WBC titlist Humberto Soto and the losses of Pacquiao and Marquez need not be a loss of fun, intriguing fights in 2009. [details]

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By Cliff Rold - 2008 was a year of endings and new beginnings at 130 lbs. The four-way Barrera-Pacquiao-Morales-Marquez dance may finally have seen a conclusion. If it did not, it certainly saw the end of its turns at Jr. Lightweight with Marquez gone to Lightweight and Pacquiao found at other destinations on the scale. Promising young titlist Edwin Valero vacated his WBA belt and moved to Lightweight while promising Featherweight titlists Robert Guerrero and Jorge Linares made 130 their new home. Add them to tough new WBC titlist Humberto Soto and the losses of Pacquiao and Marquez need not be a loss of fun, intriguing fights in 2009. [details]

Rocky Martinez will light up this division again. I think his deal to fight cook is almost done. Matinez is going to be a good champ. He is very exciting to watch. He just needs to improve his defense a little more, because offensively he is very good!!!!!!!!

[Sweet Pea]

Long Live JMM!!!!