Floyd Mayweather vs Juan Manuel Marquez

[Bennyleonard99]

Marquez was sharp that night but ultimately two small.

Floyd had been out of the ring for a couple years - fighting Marquez in his first fight back, and the fact that he's been criticized in this thread for it, speak to how goddamn great Floyd was.

He sat out to fake retire to duck high risk threats. Then hired JMM to soft spar with him and paid him the biggest check of his career. That's Fraud Duckweather for ya. The greatest ducker handpicker fraud pretender in boxing history.

[djtmal]

Biggest payday of his life, to spar soft with the boss. Who wouldn't do it?

Fighters from previous eras

[paulf]

Well, he was a lightweight moving up to welterweight in one fight.

Which is what Roberto Duran, Shane Mosley, Adrian Broner and countless others have also done.

Its pretty common.

No one accused Paul Malignaggi of cherry picking Adrian Broner.

[paulf]

He sat out to fake retire to duck high risk threats. Then hired JMM to soft spar with him and paid him the biggest check of his career. That's Fraud Duckweather for ya. The greatest ducker handpicker fraud pretender in boxing history.

Remarkable boxing insight. Thanks for posting.

[djtmal]

Which is what Roberto Duran, Shane Mosley, Adrian Broner and countless others have also done.

Its pretty common.

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Duran and Mosley absolutely did not jump up to ww in one fight. That's a fact.

[joseph5620]

Marquez had never fought at that weight before, Floyd missed weight and still put in a cautious performance. I think I watched it twice.

It was not a cautious performance by Mayweather. If you watched it twice that just means you know nothing about boxing.

[paulf]

Duran and Mosley absolutely did not jump up to ww in one fight. That's a fact.

Mosley defended his 135 title for the last time against John Brown and then fought Wilfredo Riviera at 147 in his next fight.

[Coverdale]

It was not a cautious performance by Mayweather. If you watched it twice that just means you know nothing about boxing.

It's much less deep than that. Mayweather fights don't have much rewatch value to me.

I'm generally not into defensive US fighters who fight all their fights in the US with a US referee, with Hopkins being an exception.

[Gary Coleman]

Floyd runs through text book orthodox styles. Gatti, JMM, Canelo... lambs to the slaughter.

[Grandma Lover]

It wasn't that good. They had a catch weight of 144lbs which was to help Marquez since he was still 135lbs. He was only able to get up to 142lbs at that time. Yet that didn't matter to Floyd as he didn't even make the weight. He weighted 146lbs. So you got a guy who came in bigger against an untested guy at 144lbs. Marquez had hip fat... There was zero surprise that he was going to win...

At the point of Marquez facing Pac at 147lbs, he was SHREDDED. Whatever it took to get that, but at least you know now that he was ready for that weight class. I'm not saying a 147lbs shredded Marquez would have beat Floyd either, but it would of been a hella lot more impressive.

Floyd basically did what Ryan Garcia did to Haney, except hopefully without the roids.

Nailed it but froid was most likely on steroids. Also Hilarious considering how his fans say "he a smol welterwait doe" and he couldn't even make the catch weight