Marquez is #1 P4P -coming from a pacfan...

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People are still "fight high" from the excellent fight from Diaz and Marquez. But look at it this way. When Pacquiao surprised the world and destroyed De La Hoya, this forum was covered with "Pacquiao > Mayweather" or "Pacquiao ATG" threads. Now fast forward three months later. When people bring up Pacquiao's victory over De La Hoya, they say De La Hoya was weight drain (despite De La Hoya and Nacho saying otherwise) and Oscar was too old.

I have a funny feeling the same thing will happen to Marquez in the future months. After the "fight high" wears off, people might say Marquez just beat a guy who has little experience with elites.

Agreed completely, very good points. JMM is truly a great great fight and the way he came in looking to knock out Diaz after the first knock down was one of the more beautiful displays of precision boxing I've seen. But anyone who says this victory should put him ahead of Pac P4P is definitely riding a wave of emotion after the fight.

Also take into consideration Pac next fight again the lineal champion who is undefeated at that weight in Hatton. Although I'm not a big Hatton fan that is still a very dangerous fight for Pac to take. I could see moving JMM to #1 is Pac was fighting a nobody in his next fight but come on.

If you argue that this win makes JMM #1 then if Pac beats Hatton you would have to put Pac back at #1. Thats just not how P4P is supposed to work in my opinion.

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So your saying beating David Diaz rather than Joel Casamayor who was the true champ, and beating Oscar rather than a strong upcoming young fighter is more credible? Look, I hate to knock against my favorite fighter, but I'm not blind. Doesn't take rocket science to figure out which had the more quality wins. Of course Manny with the W over Marquez I guess would make him stand out over Marquez overall. I still think though, Marquez has a better crack now at being officially #1 P4P until we see what happens with Manny-Hatton.

obviously if pac loses to hatton then jmm will be p4p #1... until then pac is p4p#1.

beating diaz dont make you p4p#1.

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Not even if Pac loses to Hatton @ you JMM fanboys

Pacman > JMM, crystal clear, he dominated JMM twice already, sad but true.