Manny is a buster for taking these fights

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This fight is at 144, the weight they both weigh come fight night will not be much different to when they fought last time. Pac was 145 and JMM 141 fight night in 2008.

Yeah I'd just like to see them go through the motions of dehydrating and making 135 so the lineal title was on the line. Could add a little spice.

Fuk that! I want to see the best Marquez and the best Pacquiao go at it!

Why would you think that wouldn't produce the best? JMM is a 135 right and Manny only weighs on fight night what most top lightweights weigh anyway. I think Manny can make 135 without any diminution in performance.

agreed. He could make 135. he eats up all the way up to the weigh in. He drinks all the way up to the weigh in. He only weighed 3 pounds more against Cheato (in the ring) than when he made 130 against Marquez the last time.

of course, that would make too much sense. Imagine all the dumb ass boxing writers who would be saying it was a mistake for him to go down in weight (when the man really didn't go up in weight).

You think? It IS because having to de-hydrate and then re-hydrate takes away energy that can be used in the fight. It also reduces the amount of water around the brain providing protection thus the reason for the 24 hour weigh-in. Coming into the ring at the natural weight is optimum. No excuses.

I diagree with your above when someone has more than 24 hours to recover. But more importantly you leave out the other side of the equation. If fighter A doesn't cut and Fighter B does and they both just make the (for the sake of argument) 147 limit 24+ hours before? The necessarily means Fighter A is going to be the smaller man in the ring during the fight by what? ten pounds or so and maybe more? My point is thewre is a cost involved. Now that's a general point that I don't think applies in the specific JMM-Manny case.