Who's the more accurate puncher Manny Pacquiao or Juan Manuel Marquez?

[$tate of Mind]

Any guesses about the punch stats for Pac vs JMM 3? JMM is a great fighter and I hope he finds a way to keep the fight competitive. Marquez will give it his best effort, he won't go out like a chump.

[straightleft]

Pac accuracy is diminishing as the round goes on. Partly because once his opponents tasted the canvas or felt his power, they start running away and becomes defensive.

[STRUGG]

JMM for me................i love how fluid JMMs punches are...................i have a feeling this 3rd match will be a classic.............

[skillswin]

u guys should think that the only reason why pac is missing is because his opponents are covering like a shell for 12 rounds or running away from him

while marquez opponents are getting hit easy because they are firing at marquez while marquez is countering

its bad to compare accuracy for two different styles

of course any counter puncher will beat >>>> any volume puncher's in any accuracy comparisson,

volume punchers punches most likely lands on his opponents arms which is counted as a miss

...............................................box ing is a sport

[Doc Holliday]

Their last six fights total punch stats percentages:

Manny

Mosley 31%
Margarito 44%
Clottey 20%
Cotto 43%
Hatton 57%
Oscar 38%
39%




Marquez


Katsidis 52%
Diaz 43%
Floyd 12%
Diaz 39%
Casamayor 31%
Manny 34%
35%

Your final percentages are incorrect if you added the individual percentages and divided the totals by 6 to come up with your final "averages" for each fighter.

Manny Pacquiao

Total Fights: 6
Total Rounds: 58

Offensive stats

Manny Pacquiao : Total punches landed/thrown against Oscar/Hatton/Cotto/Clottey/Margarito/Mosley

Landed: 1,577
Thrown: 4,519

35%


Power punches

Landed: 1,356
Thrown: 2,746

49%



Total Jabs

Landed: 221
Thrown: 1,773

12%






Juan Manuel Marquez

Total Fights:6
Total Rounds:65



Offensive stats

Juan Manuel Marquez: Total punches landed/thrown against Pacquiao/Casamayor/Diaz/Floyd/Diaz/Katsidis

Landed: 1,304
Thrown: 3,642

36%


Power punches

Landed:875
Thrown: 1,993

44%


Total Jabs

Landed: 429
Thrown: 1,649

26%

This is a little better since you took an average of the total punches landed by the total thrown in all six fights to come up with your final percentages. However, JMM fought more rounds than Pac did in all 6 fights combined, so I think this skews the final percentages a bit.

Also, why stop at their last 6 fights? If you wanted more accurate percentages, you'd divide the total landed by the total thrown in their entire careers combined.

[noStylez]

there is no way in hell Paquiao can be even mention as an accurate puncher. He throws 6 just to land 1. Snipers aren't called snipers because they can shoot 6 times and land 1. There called snipers because all it takes is one shot. In the military we have a saying, it is " ONE SHOT ONE KILL". Mayweather is as close to being a sniper with boxing gloves as we are ever gonna get. Pacquiao is the most unaccurate fighter I have ever seen. Marquez is defintlly a more accurate puncher than Pacquiao by far. Marquez actually pick his shots, before throwing punches. Pacquiao throws without destination. He even misses against stationary targets. He threw over 2000 punches at Clottey and only land 200, lol. Thtas crazy , Clottey stood right in front of him the whole time, with mulitple openings and Manny pacquiao still couldnt land at all.

el oh el !!!

[Ray*]

Definitely JMM, I still don't know where all this accuracy this comes in with Paq, throwing a lot doesn't mean you are accurate unless jabs don't count!

[Ray*]

Another thing is most of Paq's opponents over the last 5-6 fights arent movers, most of them are slow, shot to pieces, old or face first fighters so that should help his accuracy but still he is lagging behind on stats when compare to JMM.

[D4thincarnation]

Manny Pacquiao.

But lets ignore the facts as usual.

Some of you probably think the Sun orbits the earth and the earth is flat.

[D4thincarnation]

Even with the size differential, it's insane that a pro boxer the caliber of JMM was only able to land %12 of his punches on Floyd. That's ridiculous!

Proving it is a lot easier to counter punch and be accurate than be aggressive and be accurate.

I don't know how Pacquiao does it.

More accurate than Floyd while throwing more punches and being more agressive and throwing more combinations.

If Pacquiao just sat back and counter punched he wouldn't miss.