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Yeah, I agree. In his prime he always gives Pac hell or beats him but by the time they fight now he'll be 38 years old! He's not nearly as quick, sharp etc and he was in his prime and his reflexes and defense have slowed enough that moving up to 147 to fight a guy in his prime years and a good weight for him would be very hard.
The sad thing is that if Pac beats him, and I imagine he will more convincingly than before, people will remember him as having clearly won the trilogy and yet he will be facing an old, past prime version of a guy that would always give him serious trouble in his prime. Making Marquez move up to 147 is as BS as it gets. Pac would have absolutely no trouble whatsoever making 140, as Ariza and Roach always harp on about who easy he could do it when facing bigger guys, and yet in this fight they are now switching their stance as suits them and saying Pac is a 147 pounder and they don't want to drain him by going to 140? It's a damn joke.
Marquez should not fight above 140. It takes too much out of him and there is not enough left for him to really be the same as before anyway. This was a hard fight for him and being nearly forty years old, plus moving up again, to fight a guy that's still in his prime, as he was in their last fight while Marquez was just starting to move to the other side of prime, would prove a bit too much.
Whatever the case, I think we'll keep seeing Pac fighting old guys like Mosley or Marquez (Marquez is obviously still in better shape than Mosley who is now just plain shot and wouldn't prove a damn thing, but Marquez is still coming on forty years old and has been in tough fight after tough fight in recent years) or guys coming off bad losses. Before he retires he needs to prove something more than what he has so far if people are going to keep calling him an ATG of the caliber that people say he is. As it stands, he doesn't belong with the ATG guys who his fans believe he does.
While a Marquez fight would be good, all it does is prove he can beat a past it version of Marquez while he's still in his prime and that he would always struggle with a prime version. If anyone thinks he's still ins his prime, well, you don't know ****.
The sad thing is that if Pac beats him, and I imagine he will more convincingly than before, people will remember him as having clearly won the trilogy and yet he will be facing an old, past prime version of a guy that would always give him serious trouble in his prime. Making Marquez move up to 147 is as BS as it gets. Pac would have absolutely no trouble whatsoever making 140, as Ariza and Roach always harp on about who easy he could do it when facing bigger guys, and yet in this fight they are now switching their stance as suits them and saying Pac is a 147 pounder and they don't want to drain him by going to 140? It's a damn joke.
Marquez should not fight above 140. It takes too much out of him and there is not enough left for him to really be the same as before anyway. This was a hard fight for him and being nearly forty years old, plus moving up again, to fight a guy that's still in his prime, as he was in their last fight while Marquez was just starting to move to the other side of prime, would prove a bit too much.
Whatever the case, I think we'll keep seeing Pac fighting old guys like Mosley or Marquez (Marquez is obviously still in better shape than Mosley who is now just plain shot and wouldn't prove a damn thing, but Marquez is still coming on forty years old and has been in tough fight after tough fight in recent years) or guys coming off bad losses. Before he retires he needs to prove something more than what he has so far if people are going to keep calling him an ATG of the caliber that people say he is. As it stands, he doesn't belong with the ATG guys who his fans believe he does.
While a Marquez fight would be good, all it does is prove he can beat a past it version of Marquez while he's still in his prime and that he would always struggle with a prime version. If anyone thinks he's still ins his prime, well, you don't know ****.
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