Nishoika - Marquez

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I'm haven't seen any discussion about this fight, so I figured I'd start this thread. This is a really intriguing fight for me. I don't know a ton about Nishoika, I think his TKO of Gonzalez is the only fight of his that I have seen, and Marquez, while fading, is still a great fighter with very heavy hands.

I assume Nishoika will win, but I wouldn't ever count Marquez out.

I actually think that Marquez is going to dominate Nishioka, he showed that he has his timing against Lopez, Jhonny was handling Nishioka fine until the stoppage

seeing how Rafa is all around a better fighter than Gonzalez (not a diss to Jhonny at all), I wouldn't consider it an upset at all if R. Marquez was to pick up the win

I'd say Rafa WAS an all around better fighter, by quite a stretch even, but not today. Gonzales has looked as good as ever in his last couple fights imo, he just has limitations which have always been there. Marquez on the otherhand looks like he is fighting in quicksand compared to just a few years ago. I've only seen Nishoika against Gonzales so my pick in this fight is worthless, but I don't think Rafa is clearly better at anything these days besides taking punishment, and you never know when that ability is going to wane. Rafael makes Juan Manuel look fresh as a daisy to me, he's really on his last legs. How old is he anyways? Ancient for the weight not even taking punishment into account.