Marquez stops Vazquez in 3rd round
May 22nd, 2010
By Jim Dower: As expected, Rafael Marquez had too much left in the tank compared to the badly depleted Israel Vazquez, taking him out in the 3rd round on Saturday night at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Marquez cut the slow moving Vazquez in the opening round over both eyes with slashing punches, making it difficult for Vazquez to see the incoming fire.
This was the 4th bout between the two fighters. Marquez won the first fight of the series, but Vazquez came back and won fights two and three. Now with this win in the 4th fight, Marquez has knotted up their series of fights with two wins apiece for both fighters. As bad as Vazquez looked in this fight, it’s doubtful there will be a 5th fight between them. Vazquez lost the 1st and 2nd rounds and ate a lot of hard right hands from Marquez in both rounds.
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Great 3 rounds! Even though Vasquez lost – Vasquez & Marquez are still #1
HITKING – WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ON MATE , ITS NOT JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ PAL BUT RAFAEL MARQUEZ AND YOU SAID IT IN TWO SEPERATE POSTS , FOR CRYING OUT LOUD GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT WHEN POSTING HERE MATE.
Hitking60 are you thick?! It was Rafael Marquez, not juan Manuel
WOW! I would have to say Vasquez
either has the biggest heart in the world,
or is just plan crazy to go in to this bout
with his eyes still healing. His eyes
looked awful! You could see by looking at
his eyes that he wasn’t 100% ready for
this bout. There would have to be a 5th
bout to really decided who the better of
the two is? But this bout should have def
been dated for a later date. I think that
Boxing to allow a man to go into a bout
like that, where he (Vasquez) could have
lost his sight, is just plan dumb. He
probably will lose his sight later on in
Life. From me watching the bout closely, I
saw that both cuts were from head
clashes, that were opened further by
punches thrown by Marquez. Marquez
said at the end of the bout that he
intentionally went for Vasquez eye’s
because he knewn they tender from his
recent operation. But that’s just the way
things went tonite, nothing we can do now.
My prayer’s go out to Vasquez, I hope the
cuts heal good and doesn’t suffer any
problems with his sight. If he heals good
and all is fine, then there should def be a
5th bout.
Thanks for Reading
D.ROTe
Zip, Vazquez is totally. Look at how loose his legs were. Lil JMM’s legs are gone, but he can still pull the trigger and throw combinations. Vazquez can’t pull the trigger anymore. Vazquez is probably a C Class fighter at this point. No sense in pressing the issue. They need to leave well enough alone before someone (vazquez) gets hurt.
Can you say let´s do it for a 5th time? It´s 2-2 so we need a tie breaker and due to the significant cuts on Vazquez it was just too much. I´m sure Marquez would win if they fight again and I hope they don´t actually go again but Marquez looked pretty sharp.
As most people thought, Vazquez is completely shot, and Lil JMM is semi-shot. No need to do this again. Lil JMM’s legs are gone, but he can still put punches together. Vazquez looks like Chico post Corrales-Castillo I. Great while it lasted, but Lil JMM is clearly superior at this point. Plus, its been such a great rivalry, its fitting that they leave it a tie.
I thought Mares won, but that was so far the FOY IMO. Would love to see them do it again.