Quote Originally Posted by penalosafan
Quote Originally Posted by caleoh12
When this whole Juan Diaz and Joel Casamayor calling out Pacquiao happened, I used to get nervous even thinking about Pac mixing it up with either of the two. After watching Casamayor last Saturday, I'm only afraid of Diaz now. Casamayor needs to shut his BIG mouth himself before Juan or Manny physically closes it for him.
The talk here is that they're waiting for a higher bidder between the Marquez promoter and Juan Diaz.' Since there's no indication of Marquez camp backing down, as usual, from demanding equal or bigger pay, pac's next fight seems to be leaning heavily towards Diaz. That's a very, very bad idea. I really doubt he's ready to go up and more worse, immediately face the top man there. I hope he'd just take on Marquez and clean up the division and retire. If he have to move up, he should start with some lesser fighters there and gradually pick up from there.
I don't think that he needs to take a warm up fight if he moves up. Honestly, JMM is more of a threat than Juan Diaz. JD might be the best at 135 right now, but it's a pretty thin 135 division and it has been since Castillo, Chico, Popo, etc were in there primes. Juan Diaz has a style made for Pacman. He'll be eating straight lefts all-night long. Juan isn't a big enough hitter. Pacman is both a better boxer AND bigger puncher than JD whose his pressure style works best when I guy doesn't have the power to keep him off. Bigger man or not, JD is the lighter puncher.

JMM, on the other hand, might have the skill, chin, and counterpunching to negate Pac's power. If Diaz want's to maximize his position, he'll beat Casa (an easier fight) then look for Pac once he's offically "The Man" at LW.