Quote Originally Posted by Chino View Post
If you aren't favoring Pacquiao you are delusional, but to say Marquez has no shot is ridiculous. How can he have no shot if he basically fought to stalemate with Pacquiao twice?

That fight was more than 7 years ago when both were in the mid 130s. Now JMM has to gain all this weight to fight him in a weight where he looked like crap vs Floyd. Decreased speed and punching power in that weight won’t be nice to JMM.
Pacquiao may be better at 147 than Marquez, but that's yet to be seen

Pac has looked just fine at 147, JMM has not.
but I still say with confidence that Marquez will do better against Manny this time than Ortiz did against Floyd

Sure, JMM may perform fine but I just can’t see him winning, hope I am wrong.
He last fought Maquez three years ago (200 and he's fought him twice total giving him ample chance to learn Pacquiao's style. Both fights were close either way you came out. I like counter punchers in rematches because usually once they have the timing of their opponent's punching down, they can time their opponent to win - see Martinez v. Williams II. Again, Pacquiao is favored for a reason.

When has JMM not looked good at 147 other than against arguably the best boxer in boxing in Floyd? It's like saying Narvaez can't fight at bantamweight because he was dominated by Donaire or if Adamek only fought Vitali and saying he can't fight at heavyweight. I understand Pacquiao is also a great, but Marquez has faced him already, and the fights were close.