Re: whats juans best chance of victory tommorow night?
Marquez's best chance is to set the pace but not get greedy. I've always maintained that too many of floyds opponents either try to box with him or swarm him. Floyds a fighter thats great defensively and when he gets going, good and accurate offensively. Its in the transitions that he's vunerable.
Constantly swarm him and he'll never come out of his shell and roll his shoulders, clinch and potshot Marquez because he got greedy and overstayed his welcome in the pocket. If JMM lays back too much and tries to box, Floyd will start to pick at him with his speed and slip out before Marquez can counter. If JMM pressures him wisely and engages him intermittenly, Floyd will cover up at first, allowing Marquez to get the points and when Marquez steps away instead of taking the bait, Floyd will have to come after him to get those points back. He'll have to come out his comfort zone for that against a game fighter that can counter punch. Thats Marquez's best chance of landing heavy leather and making it Floyds choice to slip away from the counters and leave the points with marquez or to man up and go to war with a someone whos used to fighting that way. Just my opinion, of course.
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