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I know you were replying to someone else, but I had to but in. I don't excuse Manny for it, but there are two reasons why Manny fighting JMM is far more legitimate than the Floyd-JMM fight was. One is that Floyd signed to fight at catchweight but then ignored the catchweight and weighed in at 147, which Manny won't do. Having to lose those extra pounds would almost certainly have made some difference, not to the end result, but to the ease with which he won.
The other is that Marquez just has a style that gives Manny fits (styles make fights); and because of that, even at 144, he will pose Manny serious problems. That makes him a fairly legitimate opponent, although the fight should certainly have been made at 140, not at 144. OTOH Floyd doesn't have stylistic problems with skilled counter-punchers like Manny does (the only style so far that he had problems with was Castillo's, or to some extent with Judah's), and in his case, given the weight disparity, everyone who knows boxing and who is not a Marquez fanboy knew before the fight that Floyd would toy with Marquez at Welterweight, especially when it was announced that he had not even had to make the catchweight that he had agreed to.
The other is that Marquez just has a style that gives Manny fits (styles make fights); and because of that, even at 144, he will pose Manny serious problems. That makes him a fairly legitimate opponent, although the fight should certainly have been made at 140, not at 144. OTOH Floyd doesn't have stylistic problems with skilled counter-punchers like Manny does (the only style so far that he had problems with was Castillo's, or to some extent with Judah's), and in his case, given the weight disparity, everyone who knows boxing and who is not a Marquez fanboy knew before the fight that Floyd would toy with Marquez at Welterweight, especially when it was announced that he had not even had to make the catchweight that he had agreed to.
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