Mayweather vs. Marquez: Look for Juan to Pull Off an Upset
August 14th, 2009
By Matt Stein: With his two years away from boxing, former pound-for-pound number #1 boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr’s career has dimmed somewhat in the eyes of many fans. Mayweather, now 32, is hoping he can recapture the fans that he lost with his time off from boxing by fighting Juan Manuel Marquez on September 19th. Thus far, most people are betting that Mayweather will still have enough left in the tank to beat Marquez, 35, simply because of Mayweather’s bigger size.
This is where Mayweather will be making a mistake. Because Marquez is also a counter puncher and will be answering Mayweather’s shots with punches of his own, making Mayweather pay each time he throws one of his short pot shots.
Mayweather has always had problems taking shots to the body, and recently he suffered a rib injury while training for this fight. Although the injury has since healed, you can count on Marquez, an excellent body puncher, aiming his shots in that direction to try and take advantage of Mayweather’s recent injury. If it hasn’t healed properly or if he’s unable to take the heavy body shots, we may see Mayweather fold early and either lose energy or possibly get stopped.
In the past, Mayweather hasn’t fought anyone close to being as skilled technically and as tough as Marquez. Granted, Mayweather has fought Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Zab Judah in the past three years, but none of those fighters are in the same league as Marquez is. De La Hoya was a good – not great – fighter at one point in his long career, but by the time that Mayweather fought De La Hoya, Oscar had lost two out of his last four fights and was on the serious decline.
Mayweather’s other wins in the past four years, victories over Henry Bruseles, Arturo Gatti, Sharmba Mitchell and Carlos Baldomir, have come against fighters not in the same class as Marquez in terms of boxing skills and raw ability.
As such, Mayweather will be take a dramatic step up in competition at a point where he’s rusty from inactivity. Mayweather has been sitting around spending his millions in the past two years, not seriously training, whereas Marquez has stayed busy fighting Manny Pacquiao, Joel Casamayor and Juan Diaz. Marquez beat Casamayor and Diaz, and lost a controversial 12 round split decision to Pacquiao.
That’s not a good news for Mayweather, because if Marquez is good enough to have beaten Pacquiao, the fighter that some peg as being the best in boxing, then Mayweather will be asking a lot of himself to beat a fighter with that much ability coming off a two year retirement.
Marquez isn’t the kind of fighter that is used as a tune-up, and it looks as if Mayweather has greatly underestimated Marquez’s ability. Mayweather could be fooled by his own performances in the past in beating fighters in the lighter weight classes. Mayweather dominant at 135, but he’s much more beatable now that he’s moved up in weight. But now with inactivity and increased age, I think Mayweather is ripe for the pickings.
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I am not ruling this out…Marquez is capable of pulling an upset..he is no.2 on the list by the way..it will all depend on how he will carry the extra weight on him..I know he will not have a problem moving up to the lightweight because it was Marquez natural weight..but being in the welterweight might..but I have seen the no.1 done that..I can’t see any reason why the slight no.2 can’t…he will put on a show I’m sure..it’s not not going to be boring as others might think..you can’t counterpunch a defensive fighter!
i think mayweather will win even do i wish he would get his teeth pushed in..but im not ruleing
out a upset.
Just like the prediction of Lacy to KO jones
If you watch the fight, Marquez was getting stupid not knowing where was his stool when Pac knocked him down.
This time, I think Mayweather will do it differently by thief like punches at 90 deg angle. Similar to what Mayweather did to Hatton. Mayweather being the slick & fast fighter, knows how to find and wait opponent’s mistakes before going for a kill.
Marquez will fall down again surely after 11 boring rounds.
he he he ha ha ha ha !!!!!!
Mayweather has the advantage but i’m for marquez cause he is a good counter pucher.
Mayweather will be to fast and too strong for Marquez will will be moving up in weight to make this fight. Mayweather will win this one by decision, to make way for a big money fight against the Pac Man.
I am predicting a Mayweather win by decision.
WHO AGREES WITH ME PRESS 1 IF YOU DO
WBO SHOULD BE RUN BY REAL BOXING FANS
JMM will beat mayweather on a TKO round 11.He is too good a fighter. Mayweather has made a BIG mistake in choosing him as an opponent
JMM is the only one that gives Pacman a hard time. Floyd dont stand a chance against JMM.
outcome depends on the judges they can never come together and establish a clear way of judging fights examples delahoya out boxes trinidad for9 rds gets tired and loses the last three rounds and they give the victory to trinidad da i thouth ther was a scoring system based on rounds the only people who saw trinidad win that fight his countrymen. the first mayweather castillo fight castillo took it to floyed and was the most efective throgh out the fight but they gave the win to floyd. the mma is not killing boxing its the currupt judges and the currupt governing boddies not to mention the curupt promotors that are killing boxing. example the wbo forcing one of there champions(coto) to defend his title in a catch wieght ill tell you whose gonna win if its noy by ko its the fighter that the powers that be think can make theme more money thats whose gona win.
IF CASTILLO OUT BOXED MAYWEATHER AND GOT ROBBED OF A WIN …I DONT SEE WHY MARQUEZ CANT OUT BOX HIM 2 . MAYWEATHER DUCKED MARGARITO. HE RETIRED CUX HE KNEW HE WOULD HAVE TO FACE HIM TO BE RECOGNIZE AS ONE OF BEST … NOW THAT MARGARITO GOT SUSPENDED MAYWEATHER IS BACK.. HHAHAHA SUMM BULLL
why do people still under rated marquez ??? why do people still over rate maywather and about the big men little men its only 1 inch its not like 5inchs and there we go again manny been over rated
Marquez is chasing Pacquiao because he is the best, there is no other name out there for him anymore.
Does Mayweather want a match with Mosley/Margarito/Cotto/Clottey ?
They don’t deserve to fight him?
But smaller Hatton and Marquez does.
Mayweather is not fooling anyone anymore, now that the likes of Pacquiao and Marquez are showing how it should be done, challenging the best on their division, accepting challenge from higher division after cleaning-up.
Mayweather is overrated, if he fought the best in his division he will get KOed. That is why he never dared, he knows his limit, that’s why the cherrypicking, very obvious.
I don’t see Mayweather winning by decision, if he don’t KO Marquez, he will lose.
Yes dude! I sure as heck hope that Marquez pulls this one out!
Marquez/Mayweather
= Boring Fight (Sep. 19th)
i agree with u but i think the judges will rob marquez of the decision!
Marquez is lucky that the three knockdown rule wasn’t in effect when he fought Pacquiao. He’s lucky Barrera hit him while he was down and had time to recover. Marquez has many flaws and Mayweather will expose them .
Ill be rooting for marquez the whole night but i really think mayweather wins a UD
I really want Marquez to win but I cant see it happening though. Ill be rooting for him all night though.
Even if he does lose his credibilty as a fighter wont decrease he is a future hall of famer how has fought all best fighters in his time
GOOD ARTICLE!! I THINK MAYWETHER WILL PULL IT OUT BUT I WONT COUNT MARQUEZ OUT. AND THIS IS COMING FROM A MARQUEZ FAN 100%. I AM A FAN OF THE SPORT SO ILL JUST WAIT FOR IT ALL TO PLAY OUT IN THE RING ON SEPT 19TH. THERE IS NO WAY UFC IS GETTING MY MONEY THAT NIGHT!!!!
Good article. You nailed it. Mayweather is good but in Marquez you are talking about a fighter who has been at the top of his game for the last five years or so. It is hard to look back at his career and see a weak outing, outside of round one vs. Pacquiao in their first fight. Mayweather doesn’t have a big enough size advantage over Marquez to negate Marquez’s talent.
Not to take anything away from Marquez – because he is a HOF great, but to compare his past opponents with the talent, that is Mayweather is short-sighted at best. Marquez will have loads of problems with the speed of Mayweather, along with his excellent footwork and excellent defence. JMM has never fought anyone who had the ability to counter him with both speed and power. Pac was a short opponent and JMM had all the advantgages with the exception of speed & power. And Pac gave JMM all he could handle and more. PBF will demonstrate why he has always been considered the very best. By dominating JMM – won’t be easy, but it will result in a win for PBF.
As much as I dislike Mayweather there’s no doubting his talent. He will win this fight and then expose Pacquiao, if Cotto doesn’t first. Marquez is to thin to win.
Come on dogg, you gonna block me now? Thats weak man, we’re supposed to discuss this like gentlemen.
I’m still a pacman fan?
you must be smoking that real pcp