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If they both come into the ring at the same weight then I can't complain really, but Marquez having to weigh in so much heavier than at any time beyond Mayweather and being so much older makes me fear the worst.

As a boxing fan, all I want to see is good fights and that basically means a few compromises to give the fans a great fight and in return the fighters take home their massive paychecks.

What I don't like is fighters who have become too powerful picking and choosing their opponents and playing games with weights. And that is what Manny has become. In time it will cloud his greatness.

Marquez can weigh in at 141. My Lord he was a lightweight fighting at feather. At fight time they are a pound or two different. So what?
They should certainly have something in the contract stipulating that on the day neither man be allowed to weigh more than 146 pounds. I just see Marquez putting on that weight as an older man and Manny having already done so as a younger man. Manny is the naturally bigger fighter now. If this wasn't the case then he would have been fighting at LW himself. Manny is a proven WW, whilst Marquez is a proven LW.

Any sensible person can agree that a 140 weigh in would have been fair, what we currently have are the scales turned in Manny's favour. Still, what's done is done.
Do you know what was Margarito's fight night weight? 165 pounds to Manny's 148. Do you know what was JMM's fight night weight against Katsidis? 146 pounds. So Manny on fight night will be 2 pounds heavier more than likely. Don't really see a major weight advantage there.

On fight night JMM is a welterweight fighting at lightweight. He doesn't have to cut that much weight anymore when he fights at ww, just like Manny. JMM got his ass whooped by Floyd who has never weighed more than 150 pounds upon rehydration was not because of size but because of skill.

So are you going to tell me that Manny will have such a massive weight advantage with 2 pounds? Manny has never weighed more than 148 upon rehydration in his fights.