The Official "I appologize for selling an ATG/HOF fighter short" thread.

[puga]

also...people were counting out marquez for all the wrong reasons, the main one was to discredit pac before it even started....regarding the weight , it was never a problem since jmm had been fighting around 145 even at lw and pac was never much bigger than that..having a nutritionist helped a lot too...now that the fight was close again and pac did not performed like what they expected, he aint that good now....you now hear people sayin , jmm is greater than pac..lol....theres always a fighter that can make even a great fighter look human, no one is exemted unless you duck real challenges...

[bojangles1987]

I am very sorry Juan Manuel Marquez. You simply have Pac's number, no matter when or where you two fight.

[chav]

Signing in here.

I got it spectacularly wrong too, I thought Manny would steam right through JMM and have the business done via TKO by round 8.

Manny got his ass whopped by JMM in my eyes. I have only seen the fight once, but I thought he lost. Arum will never let Manny face Mayweather now.

[|STALLION|]

LOL @ dragging everyone else into your guilt,


I never doubted Marquez technically. My prediction that he would be stopped between 4-7 came from my feeling that Pacquiao just carried too many physical advantages into the fight at this weight (those were somewhat evidenced by the greater toll his blows exacted on the face of Marquez), that JMM would present the usual issues for a few rounds before being clipped by something big and submerged; but he denied Manny the leverage he needed for his best shots all night and delivered arguably the most precise and disciplined performance of his career when he had to.


As such, I don't feel I owe JMM any apology. I retained an open mind and was actively hoping he would make a nonsense of my fears and reach the summit as he did, but he was already the man in my eyes for just attempting to climb this mountain with all the odds facing him.

[Boxingtech718v2]

Marquez proved he can go up and weight and be effective. He won that fight and was robbed. Props to Marquez and his team.