SI's boxing coverage is garbage... They cover boxing as much as water polo... Some seem to forget that this sport was bigger then all the sports combined in the US at one time.
It is a farce to say that at any time in that fight Marquez was "flattened"... Both men were hurt. It was a war.
I want to know who hires their boxing writers... They never know what the hell they're talkig about.
I love whenever Delahoya fights they jump all over his nuts like Shanna Moakler

... He's all over the mag.
Hellllooooooo... There are about 50 other guys that would be great ambasadors for the sport...
Juan Diaz for one: A young, polite, fulltime student who just so happened to have won three world titles in his spare time... Great roll model
Miguel Cotto: I don't think you can find a nicer guy... Very polite aswell... Happens to be a world champion.
Joe Calzaghe: Average Joe who has just happened apon a tiny thing called the undisputed supper middleweight championship for the past 10 yrs.
Kelly Pavlik: Everyday working guy from the runt belt... Looks like a guy you'd pull up a stool next to in a bar... Oh yeah and he's the Middleweight world champ.
Shane Mosley: Has that star power quality and the skill to match.
John Duddy: Young up and coming, good looking, hard working, crowd pleasing kid.
Ricky Hatton: He is ACTUALLY a guy you might pull a stool up to in a bar. One of the best roll models out there.
Manny Pac: He is getting more well known as time goes on and would be a great ambasador for the sport. He exhudes star power.
Juan Manuel Marquez: One of the great fighters of our time who lives right in Cali. If people in the general public don't know his name... They friggin should.
Isreal Vasquez: He has given us many memorable fights. The little guys don't get enough recognition.
I don't know whats wrong with the general media where they shun boxing as they do unless friggin dela-just-here-to-irritate-me-hoya is fighting... Its just beyondmy realm of thinking...
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