It's hard to overcome the knockdowns from the first fight. Pac was an up and coming star... but his attacks were not conventional and he caught people off guard. Marquez was the first guy to somewhat solve that puzzle during his initial run and he got off the canvas after looking like he would be just another victim and put together a pretty darned good rest of the fight. Still, hard to overcome the first round.. and Pac did win that fight... but Marquez won a good portion of that fight, and Pac knew it - everybody knows it. Moral victories are not actual victories, though, so you are correct that the first fight was a Pac fight.
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