Mayweather Returns, Expected Easy Drubbing of Marquez

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By Cliff Rold - It was hard in the build to the fight to find anyone rationally picking World Lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez to defeat Floyd Mayweather. The 32-year old Mayweather (40-0, 25 KO) of Grand Rapids, Michigan showed the world why Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For almost every second of twelve rounds, the five-division former titlist who retired in 2008 as the World Welterweight champion and a leader in the pound for pound debate dominated the smaller, slower, reigning 36-year old Lightweight champion Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KO) of Mexico, capturing a unanimous decision made to look easy.

It was Mayweather’s first fight since stopping then-undefeated reigning Jr. Welterweight champion Ricky Hatton in December 2007.

Both men came in below the Welterweight limit, Mayweather at 146 and Marquez a career high 142 in his sixth fight since leaving the 126 lb. Featherweight division. There had been some controversy about the weight as an agreed upon catchweight of 144 lbs. was missed by Mayweather and, reportedly, ended up costing him in the neighborhood of $600 thousand in penalties for the two pounds over. [details]

[WESS]

The same thing will happen to Pac.... That is very clear. it wont be until after the fact that the people calling for the fight to happen will say weight and size was the only reason Mayweather won. Its always after the fact.

JMM is a warrior and great. Pac is a great. Both guys are great. Just not Mayweather GREAT. People need to understand Mayweathr's technical skills are beyond anything Pac and JMM could ever have.

Lets see a REAL WW fight. Mayweather vs Mosley/Cotto...

[socalrican01]

Letter to Mr. Floyd

Dear Floyd,

You have proven once again how SMART you are!

1. You hand picked an opponent who fights 16 lbs lighter than you.
2. You cheat on the agreed upon weight. (contract 144lbs came in at 146lbs)
3. You kicked a smaller, slower, weaker fighter's ass then claim #1
4. You tricked/fooled boxing fans again, into paying for onesided matchup
5. You even got nervous when Max and Shane asked why you wont fight a REAL Welterweight.

PLEASE. PLEASE. Im begging you Floyd. PLEASE PLEASE. Fight a REAL welterweight. PLEASE. here is a list just in case: Clottey, Cotto, Margarito, Mosely, Berto, Cintron, Quintana or Williams.

I promise if you fight any one of these welterweights I will give you the respect you deserve. As of right now, your just a BAD ASS Lightweight. I'll even respect you if you go back to 140 or 135 and reign there...BUT 147 ... we need better opponents for you to take on before anyone makes the claim of BEST Pound 4 Pound.

Dont think for one second that beating a shot delahoya (which gave you problems with his jab) and a B Class Fighter named Hatton gives you the right to CAMPAIGN as the best in WELTERWEIGHTS. Just not happening. You can fool the mainstream but not the TRUE Boxing Fans.

If I were you Mr. Floyd, I would forget about PACMAN... Its gonna be anther size mismatch. But you decide... MONEY... or MONEY AND RESPECT! Pacman = Money; A legit WelterWeight = Money and Respect. YOU CHOOSE!

Now go drink some Piss... LOL LOL LOL

[handler000]

Dear Floyd,

You have proven once again how SMART you are!

1. You hand picked an opponent who fights 16 lbs lighter than you.
2. You cheat on the agreed upon weight. (contract 144lbs came in at 146lbs)
3. You kicked a smaller, slower, weaker fighter's ass then claim #1
4. You tricked/fooled boxing fans again, into paying for onesided matchup
5. You even got nervous when Max and Shane asked why you wont fight a REAL Welterweight.

PLEASE. PLEASE. Im begging you Floyd. PLEASE PLEASE. Fight a REAL welterweight. PLEASE. here is a list just in case: Clottey, Cotto, Margarito, Mosely, Berto, Cintron, Quintana or Williams.

I promise if you fight any one of these welterweights I will give you the respect you deserve. As of right now, your just a BAD ASS Lightweight. I'll even respect you if you go back to 140 or 135 and reign there...BUT 147 ... we need better opponents for you to take on before anyone makes the claim of BEST Pound 4 Pound.

Dont think for one second that beating a shot delahoya (which gave you problems with his jab) and a B Class Fighter named Hatton gives you the right to CAMPAIGN as the best in WELTERWEIGHTS. Just not happening. You can fool the mainstream but not the TRUE Boxing Fans.

If I were you Mr. Floyd, I would forget about PACMAN... Its gonna be anther size mismatch. But you decide... MONEY... or MONEY AND RESPECT! Pacman = Money; A legit WelterWeight = Money and Respect. YOU CHOOSE!

Now go drink some Piss... LOL LOL LOL

Mayweather gave you a blueprnt on how to beat everybody on your list besides Pwill. Get used to it until he retires again.

[djteo]

marquez' body was even more shot than de la hoyas. you could see marquez was even sluggish moving up to 135, and then the 36 year old jumped 2 more weight classes. its incredible how floyd is given credit for fighting a man whos body was obviously completly destroyed. of course mayweather looked good against him, but hell, any of the top welterweights would have, or probably even better. i guess people are just too caught up in the hype to see what really happened.

[The_Demon]

The same thing will happen to Pac.... That is very clear. it wont be until after the fact that the people calling for the fight to happen will say weight and size was the only reason Mayweather won. Its always after the fact.

JMM is a warrior and great. Pac is a great. Both guys are great. Just not Mayweather GREAT. People need to understand Mayweathr's technical skills are beyond anything Pac and JMM could ever have.

Lets see a REAL WW fight. Mayweather vs Mosley/Cotto...

thanks for keeping it real

[mathed]

I wanted a competitive fight but JMM was way, way too slow to be effective. Floyd better be careful before B-Hop and Mosley bank him.

[Pony Boy]

Mayweather Marquez

Ha, Ha, Mayweather Jr. got checked by Mosley! Mayweather Jr. only retired cause he ducked all the true welter weights, Mosley, Cotto, P. Williams, Margarito and Clottey. Now that Margarito and P. Williams are out, and Cotto and Clottey have taken significant punishment, Mayweather returns but only to fight smaller, weaker opponents. To be respected as the Best Pound for Pound fighter you have to fight the Best. Mayweather Jr. should have just drank JMM's piss cause he chocked when Mosley stepped up to him.

[Pullcounter]

The same thing will happen to Pac.... That is very clear. it wont be until after the fact that the people calling for the fight to happen will say weight and size was the only reason Mayweather won. Its always after the fact.

nah man... THERE IS A REASON WHY THERE ARE WEIGHT DIVISIONS!!!

I've been saying this forever... Pac aint no WW.

JMM is a warrior and great. Pac is a great. Both guys are great. Just not Mayweather GREAT. People need to understand Mayweathr's technical skills are beyond anything Pac and JMM could ever have.

yes, floyd has excellent skills and natural athleticism. he for sure is greater than JMM, but I dunno about pac. pac is about as great, but in a different way.

Lets see a REAL WW fight. Mayweather vs Mosley/Cotto...

yep... floyd ain't no "small" WW.

[WESS]

nah man... THERE IS A REASON WHY THERE ARE WEIGHT DIVISIONS!!!

I've been saying this forever... Pac aint no WW.

yes, floyd has excellent skills and natural athleticism. he for sure is greater than JMM, but I dunno about pac. pac is about as great, but in a different way.


yep... floyd ain't no "small" WW.

I know there's a reason. That same reason is why Cotto beats Pac. Listen to Emanuel steward about a minute into the 9th round of Mayweather JMM.

Pac's skills are great but Mayweather will pick him apart the same way he just picked apart one of the best technical fighters today.

I like Pac but he's over rated at this current time. He's no WW. Mayweather will walk all over him and people will again say Mayweather's picking on the smaller guys once again. (after the fact of course).

Now Saying that, Mayweather's no "small" WW. He IS a WW. I don't know if he couldn't make weight or if he purposely didn't make it or what. But the fact that it happened takes any creditability away of him being that "small" WW. He's a TRUE WW and needs to fight a TRUE WW. I have Cotto beating Pac. "THERE IS A REASON WHY THERE ARE WEIGHT DIVISIONS". Mayweather needs to step up now that the "rust" is gone and fight Cotto/Mosley.