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Marquez beat Barrera...it was a great fight...deal.

So Marquez's face was swollen & that is grounds that Barrera won?

Holy S***.

The judges were retarded with the margins...I'll give you that...but Barrera was frustrated by Marquez & Marquez backed Barrera up with some wicked combos while Barrera fired that jab off all night.

It was a great fight & the better man won. Whether your'e a fan of either man...a fan of boxing should be able to admit atleast that.
Marquez missed with alot of those shots. Look at the punch-stats and explain to me how you could give the fight to Marquez. Barrera clearly landed the more effective punches.
Barrera landed about 7 more total punches and around 40 less power punches. How does that back up your claim that MAB won or landed the cleaner punches? You point out that Marquez misses alot yet punch-stats have him landing at a higher % than MAB.

If MAB won it would've been with the jab and ring generalship. Marquez was clearly the harder, sharper, more effective power-puncher.
Can't find the compubox analysis anywhere on the web. However, I do remember that Barrera had the edge in the numbers. Barrera's punches were cleaner and more effective as evidenced by JMM's face at the end of the fight. I'm not taking anything away from Marquez; he's an amazing boxer and I take my hat off to him.
However, did he do enough to dethrone Barrera? I think not. Barrera effectively blocked many of the punches that Marquez threw. My only gripe with Barrera's performance was that he wasn't as sharp with his counter punching as I would have liked and he didn't establish a dominate jab early on in the bout.
Both fighters were tactically flawed throughout portions of the bout, but that's what makes the sport so interesting.
No if, and or buts about it, Barrera got screwed by the decision. If and when there is a rematch, it better not be in Vegas, and an independent commission must be put together to monitor officials at ringside for gross improprieties such as those evidenced by the farcical scores last night.