Time for the boxing world to shutdown once again Saturday night

**HattonTheHammer** · 09-15-2009 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by Youngblood

I've got my own fight that night, and weigh in and all the jazz, main event, yet...am already thinking about how I can get home quick enough after to catch it. I'd be buying it if I knew for sure I could watch it all, and prob. build a party around it. It is a big deal, and a precursor to bigger things in our sport for next year.

This is where the most excitement is. This and the pac-cotto fight. The story lines are great and being written as they go. No one who cares about boxing should underestimate the importance of this fight. I hope it reflects in the PPV numbers.

best wishes for sat `blood

rest assured after marq-floyd to us here your 2nd in line

**Bomp** · 09-15-2009 11:25 AM

Cracking fight, both guys look sharp. In the earlier workouts before the postponement Marquez looked a little chubby, and Floyd a little lethargic.

Love to see both guys at their best, Floyd has the physical advantages though and will eventually take over IMO.

**Youngblood** · 09-15-2009 11:34 AM

What gets me about these fights is the conflict. I'm sure I'm not alone. I am rooting for Marquez because I like who he is, moreso then Floyd. Yet, think a win for Floyd will be better in the long haul.

Then the Cotto-Pac fight. Same deal. Cotto is right at the top of my list of fighters I respect, Pac too. But I am rooting for Cotto, and again am not sure it is best. That Pac should win, that all the stars will align if it comes out this way and we'll see a true mega-fight being the end result. That being Floyd-Pac.

This is boxing though, so no certainties is there. Any fighter is one punch from it being over. One punch from winning.

All these little story lines, Marquez piss drinking, Floyd broke, Pac overconfident, sparring session rumors, well, this is a part of it, the intrigue and interest. It's all good. Every time I see a new story pop up, and 2 sides arguing their thoughts on it, I get a bit more excited about the whole deal.

**JazMerkin** · 09-15-2009 12:31 PM

I been nervously waiting for this for months. I'm backin Floyd as I always have, but JMM is probably the one fighter I would cope with him losing to.

In terms of boxing's future, I think at least 1 of Floyd or Pacquiao has to win. A JMM-Cotto superfight will just not be on the same level as JMM-Pac III or Floyd-Cotto. Neither of those will be anywhere near the level of a Floyd-Pac fight, which I think would have the potential to be the biggest match-up in terms of appeal, public interest & significance since Hagler-Leonard.

**leftylee** · 09-15-2009 12:32 PM

I'm going the bookies later to throw cash on Floyd.

I've got this feeling that he will be back with a bang and stop Marquez late on. I'm going to put like a fiver on rounds 9.10,11 for him to win.

I'm going out to Liverpool central with the boys Saturday and to hook up with a girl. My parents are away for 3 days. So I'll be getting absolutely smashed in town, come home with a kebab and turn Saddo's and the fight on. I'll be drinking Vodka Red Bull's Saturday so I'll be wide awake.

**skel1983** · 09-15-2009 12:34 PM

Not the worst undercard either, looking forward to it.

**HattonTheHammer** · 09-15-2009 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Youngblood

What gets me about these fights is the conflict. I'm sure I'm not alone. I am rooting for Marquez because I like who he is, moreso then Floyd. Yet, think a win for Floyd will be better in the long haul.

Then the Cotto-Pac fight. Same deal. Cotto is right at the top of my list of fighters I respect, Pac too. But I am rooting for Cotto, and again am not sure it is best. That Pac should win, that all the stars will align if it comes out this way and we'll see a true mega-fight being the end result. That being Floyd-Pac.

This is boxing though, so no certainties is there. Any fighter is one punch from it being over. One punch from winning.

All these little story lines, Marquez piss drinking, Floyd broke, Pac overconfident, sparring session rumors, well, this is a part of it, the intrigue and interest. It's all good. Every time I see a new story pop up, and 2 sides arguing their thoughts on it, I get a bit more excited about the whole deal.

there are alternatives to pac-mayweather though

Mayweather-Cotto - years in the making
Cotto-Marquez - 2 very similar techniques clashing head on
Marquez-Pacquiao III - who the hell wouldnt want to see that go down?

I personally think the best thing possible for boxing would be either marquez or cotto winning as it would completely shake up the whole division and once again create an endless array of various matchups rather than just floyd-pac which would most likely result in both guys calling it a day there and then.