Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
I should add here that imo it's emotion that is causing people to react like this.

MArquez was getting overwhelmed in the early rounds by Diaz and so it made his comeback and subsuequent destruction of Diaz that much sweeter, it also happened to be a hugely competitive and exciting fight.

Pacquaio on the other hand completely outclassed and dominated Oscar from the very first bell so people are less impressed and just conclude that Oscar was weight drained and shot.

That's not fair imo, what more could Manny have done? He totally owned Oscar, beat him down and made him quit on his stool, there's simply nothing more he could have done to win more impressively hence how in the world can he drop DOWN from number one in the world?


Im also of the opinion that pacquiao deserves to be ranked number 1 not on who is the better fighter as even after 2 fights the jury is well out on that, but what pacman has acheived in the sport.

But marquez did to a very very good fighter what no man has got anywhere near to doing yet and though naturally being a hatton fan i hate when people claim (insert name) beat certain fighters because they were shot (in rickys case castillo, tszyu) de-la hoya was a shadow of the man that dominated at 147 a decade or so back and only put on 2pounds between the weigh in and the fight which pretty much suggests something was very wrong.