Naz-vs-Marquez? The greatest duck in history? Fact.

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Marquez was offered a career high payday of $400,000 to face Naz in the year 2000. He turned it down claiming he wasn't ready for Naz, even though he spent two years as WBO no.1 mandatory. Naz ruined the unfortunate Augie Sanchez instead.

The question is - where would Marquez be without this duck of Naz? It was clearly a great move. Fact.

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That right there says it all. Marquez waited and waited for Hamed to fight him. While Hamed begged and begged the WBO to let him fight some one else. After giving him so many passes the WBO was considering stripping him of the title. But Hamed promised he would fight Marquez after he fought Cesar Soto. He wanted to unify the titles first. Hamed beat Soto in one of the worst fights of 1999. Marquez canceled his fight with Roque Cassiani to prepare for Hamed. Than in one of the most skanless, cowardice moves ever in Boxing history Hamed backs out of the fight and in turn faces Vuyani Bungu. Now Bungu was a fine Super Bantamweight. But he had never fought as a Featherweight before. Not to mention he hadn't fought in over a year. Yet some how Hamed deemed him worthy of a title shot. Marquez considered legal action but decided against it. He was done with Hamed and his games. Hamed creamed Bungu while Marquez went on with the Cassiani fight. Afterwards Hamed for like the 10th time again told Marquez he would fight him. Marquez said if he was serious about fighting him give him $500,000. Hamed showed he wasn't serious and said no.

90% of your post is utter drivel.

This little snippet comes from Antonio Curtis, Marquez former matchmaker at Forum Boxing - "When the WBO said they were going to make a unification, I forgot who the hell they were supposed to be fighting. What happened is this, as soon as they told us no, we took another fight. As soon as we took another fight, then they called us when we had already signed for another fight and then they wanted us to fight Hamed, Curtis recalled, of those events. Now, I wanted to pull that fight, to fight Hamed. But Nacho said no. He would've gotten a half-million for the fight and Nacho turned that fight down." http://www.maxboxing.com/kim/kim031607.asp

There you go. Marquez shamelessly ducked Naz. Fact.

A link that leads no where. Just like your post. And I here i though you would actually provide something of substance. I'm disappointed in myself for thinking that. Anyway this is pretty easy standard stuff. The champion must defend against his mandatory within 6 months to a year. Hamed went over 2 years avoiding Marquez. In the mean time he fought an ancient fighter (Wilfredo Vazquez) a seriously out classed fighter (Wayne McCullough) and domestic club fighter (Paul Ingle). That's what you call ducking 101 there

All three much bigger names than Marquez back then. Anyway, i've something even better, straight from the horses mouth Juan Manuel Marquez admitting his duckage of the Naz fella.

Read and weep boy -

Featherweight Marquez said no to Hamed

Juan Manuel Marquez conceded Friday that he turned down a fight with Prince Naseem Hamed, the World Boxing Organization featherweight champion. "I had been waiting two years," said Marquez, speaking through a translator. "Now they want the fight. I wasn't prepared. They did not give me sufficient time to get prepared."

"Hamed is difficult to fight. Hamed is like a wrestler," Marquez said. "He will toss you around if he can. It is almost the same way with fighting (Freddie) Norwood. You have to knock him out to get the victory."

Marquez said he would like to fight Hamed as the champion of one of the other sanctioning bodies. Otherwise, Marquez said, fighting Hamed "is not on even terms."

Nacho Beristain, Marquez's manager, criticized the Hamed camp's negotiating tactics. "They want to get us when all of our energies are gone (from negotiating)," Beristain said. "They are only playing with our heads. We never want to fight (Hamed). Who do they think they are? They came out with an offer of $400,000. It is not worth it."

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There you go, you can't argue with the facts, Marquez turned down a career high payday because he didn't feel ready for Naz.

Marquez bottled the Naz fight. Fact.

Thank you. 2 years he waited and waited. But Hamed wanted none. You said it yourself. Can't argue facts. You provided the proof. For 2 years Hamed ducked him. He had no problem fighting chumps like Ingle. A fighter who'd own mother didn't know she had a son named Paul. But looked for every excuse not to fight Marquez

It's like this. Hamed was a good entertaining fighter. Fun to watch. But an ATG he is more certainly not. Facts don’t lie. And facts are Hamed never beat a real good fighter who was in his prime. All the fighters he fought who were a name came in with ridiculous amount of mileage on them. When Hamed fought Barrera. Barrera had already fought 55 times. Cesar Soto 63. Wilfredo Vazquez 59. Kevin Kelley 50. Vuyani Bungu 39. Tom Johnson 48. Manuel Medina 59. The ones that didn’t Paul Ingle and Wayne McCullough were not as good as the previous fighters mentioned. McCullough was average. Ingle was straight garbage.

The two year wait just harms Marquez case for the duck. If he spent that long chasing Naz how come he said NO the first opportunity he got? Don't make sense. The truth is Marquez/Beristain never wanted any part of Naz.

Here's a little quiz for you.

What do these guys have in common - Coto, Johnson, Medina, Kelly, McCullough, Bungu and Vazquez? That's right, they had all won "world" titles before Naz bashed them. Even Paul Ingle won the IBF title in his very next fight after losing to Naz.

Marquez had how many world titles back in Naz day? That's right, ZERO!! Marquez didn't become a "world" champion until bascially TWO years AFTER Naz had retired.

Just like Marquez the man himself said - "I want to fight Naz when I have a world title to make it more fair"

Marquez simply wasn't ready for Naz back then. And Naz had bigger fish to fry unifying the featherweight divison.

The duck explained. Fact.

What big fish? Cesar Soto? Come on now. Hamed didn't care about unifiying. But trying to unify was the only excuse he had left that the WBO was going to buy. They were set to strip him for his shameful ducking of Marquez. That's a fact. Hamed backed himself into a unification bout when he used it as an excuse. Why you think he never went after the other 2 titles?

It wasn't only Marquez either. Hamed ducked just about every fighter capable of beating him. Check it. I'm about to give you privileged information that people have gone great lengths to keep under wraps. Consider yourself lucky that I'm even telling you. You don't really deserve it. But I like to deal in facts. And these are stone cold facts regarding Hamed's retirement. After being embarrassed by a past his prime Barrera, Hamed went back to his locker room and openly discussed his future with his team. Despite all his arrogance and brash talk Hamed was really a very insecure fighter. He had a lot of self doubt. But beating the right type of hand picked opponents and a bunch of yes men and Hamed was able to fool himself into thinking he was everything he said he was. The Barrera loss destroyed his whole charade. His whole manufactured rep that he so carefully build was crumpling. Being seen as a fraud was not something he could live with. What now? If he couldn't beat a declining Barrera than who could he beat? HBO wasn't going to allow him to fight scrubs like Paul Ingle any more. They wanted him against the top dogs. Who else was out there? Erik Morales? Fuck no. Never Hamed said. Juan Manuel Marquez? He ducked him for 2 years for a reason. With those 2 and Barrera at Featherweight Hamed knew he would never be King at 126 again. How about moving up? Who runs things at 130? Who the big names? Floyd Mayweather Jr, Joel Casamayor, Diego Corrales and Acelino Freitas were the title holders he was told. Reality was brutal to Hamed. He knew he stood no chance against either of them title holders. Having no desire to be embarrassed again he elected to retire. He didn't want to end things with a loss. So he took one last fight against a D level fighter and left. He knew he would take hits for leaving the way he did. So many things that could still be done would never be. But he felt it was better to leave with an incomplete career than to continue on and endure more embarrassment and in the process rack up the losses. Smart move