Quote Originally Posted by ninjaspy3 View Post
Nicely worded but at the end of the day, this is really irrelevant. Conservative fight or not, he deserved the win.
Exactly. Marquez should not be expected to alter his style due to the possibility of unfair/crooked scoring. If he was to open up and go for the knockout he'd be playing into Pacquiao's hands and giving him an advantage. It's a ludicrous argument.

Perhaps he did fight a conservative fight. That is very different to fighting a negative fight, like Dirrell (vs Froch) or Hopkins (vs Calzaghe) or Haye (vs Klitschko) or Mosley against Pac last time out. He didn't hold and he didn't run, he measured distance and countered. He didn't throw as many punches overall, but unlike Pac, he wasted little. He controlled the pace, threw crisp shots in every round and provided far more quality than Pac throughout.

If Marquez was the Top Rank cash cow he would have won via comfortable UD, and everyone knows it.

I always felt the first two fights could have gone either way and were certainly too close to label a robbery. But this one was a stitch-up of the highest order.