Comments Thread For: Koncz: Pacquiao-Marquez Trilogy is Not Done Yet

[Rapid Counter]

Pacquiao's camp calls the shots. They fight at 147. The 144 Catchweight is in Marquez's favor. They'd probably be around the same weight on fight night anyway.

The catch weight which is in some way meant to look like pac is trying to even the playing field is nothing more than a move by Arum to stop de la hoya matching their offer. Nothing more, nothing less.

[ShoguNinja]

Catchweights are part of boxing, part of boxing history. Don't know why so many idiots are complaining. If it was at 147 Pacquiao would get criticised even more for trying to drag Marquez up there. Marquez asked for the catchweight, if you're going to be consistent in your hate direct it at him. Pacquaio is the one who made the concession. This way Marquez won't have to worry about what weight Pacquiao will come in at, it will be 144, and it gaurantees there won't be too much of a weight disparity between the fighters. These are the type of fights catchweights are made for.

Right! Pac-Haters are crying their excuse already because Marquez will fight Pac at a catchweight of 144 while they are asking Pac before to fight Martinez at 154?! Ironic huh?! What kind of $tupidity is that?

[Dan Gutierrez]

Let us give Pacquiao/Marquez trilogy. "THE DEATH WISH"

[v.cassiusali@ya]

gbp is in a "damn if you do" and "damn if you don't" situation...gbp can't match the offer of top rank or if they match it, gbp bleeds...their prized fighters are not worth $2M and here comes top rank offering cry-baby-boy marquez a $5M guarantee...

if they will not match it, it would be a slap on their face...or gbp is broke...

if they will match it, they will certainly bleed to death...

[don miguel]

Its not the same. When he fought Floyd at that weight he had never been at that weight before so nobody not even Floyd knew what to expect from Marquez. Now the whole world knows Marquez doesn't look good at that weight, including pac.

Definitely not the same.

Floyd came 2 lbs over the contract weight with no intension to make the weight and just paid the penalty.

Everybody knew before the fight that Floyd would have a huge size advantage. At least Pac and JMM are almost the same size. JMM and beristain stated that.

JMM knew they didn't look good at that weight against floyd. Yet they begged for the fight. Is that Pac's fault?

[don miguel]

The catch weight which is in some way meant to look like pac is trying to even the playing field is nothing more than a move by Arum to stop de la hoya matching their offer. Nothing more, nothing less.

JMM negotiated for 144.

Even if it was a move to stop gbp to match their offer, watch wrong with that?

[jknightx]

first of all it was Marquez the wanted the 144lbs catch weight. 2ndly Maquez weighs 145lbs on fight night(yes even when he is fighting at the 135lbs limit he rehydrates to 145 on fight night. Pacquiao also for most of the time weighs in on fight night at 145lbs. so stop with all the talk of the weight advantage for Pacquiao. They wiegh almost exactly the same on fight night.

[Rapid Counter]

Definitely not the same.

Floyd came 2 lbs over the contract weight with no intension to make the weight and just paid the penalty.

Everybody knew before the fight that Floyd would have a huge size advantage. At least Pac and JMM are almost the same size. JMM and beristain stated that.

JMM knew they didn't look good at that weight against floyd. Yet they begged for the fight. Is that Pac's fault?

Its not pacs fault that they asked for the fight. However it is his fault in accepting this fight four years too late.

[Rapid Counter]

JMM negotiated for 144.

Even if it was a move to stop gbp to match their offer, watch wrong with that?

I never once said that Marquez didn't negotiate for the 144 weight. I'm just pointing out that they only accepted that offer to out do GBP. It wasn't out of the kindness of their hearts lol

[don miguel]

Its not pacs fault that they asked for the fight. However it is his fault in accepting this fight four years too late.

After the first fight Pac offered JMM a rematch. But JMM instead chose to fight Chris John in Indonesia for a significantly smaller purse and lost. It took 4 years for JMM to accept the 2nd fight. Nobody blamed JMM.

So what if it took Pac 4 years to accept the 3rd fight?