Juanma lopez: ''i want juanma marquez at 130''

[miron_lang]

i think if rafa was at least 3 years younger, he'd definitely have beaten juanma lopez

Yeah right.

[zhubin]

Rafa was overpowered in this fight. Lopez was visibly the stronger fighter...not to mention he hit the back of Marquez's head several times...basically roughed him up to the body in the later rounds and fought a bit dirty in spots. Marquez clearly is the more skilled fighter...he was landing flush shots and stunned Lopez. But Marquez basically abandoned his jab and straight right in this fight (they didn't seem to be doing any damage anyways)...and his willingness to war it out instead of using his superior skills seem to always leave him at risk. I don't see Juan Marquez coming down to 130...and you have to figure all the wars will catch up to Rafa Marquez (if they already haven't). All that being said...Rafa has incredible heart to go along with his great skill. Lopez still seems chinny to me...so i can't say i would completely bet against Rafa in a rematch.

[p4pking]

Well obviously it's just something to say after the win, I doubt JMM could even make 130 realistically. If they fought at lightweight and Marquez doesn't lose to many steps in between I think he would indeed hand Lopez a beating. I thought a lot more of Lopez a year or so ago honestly, he just doesn't seem to have developed a real skillset and basically has the one gear . He didn't really show any ring savy in beating Rafael to me, just was so much fresher and stronger that it didn't quite matter enough he was being timed so well early on. It's like he doesn't realize that he isn't quite tough enough to fight the way he does or something, seems very strange to me that he hasn't tried to work on movement and defence at least a little bit. I don't really even mean that he is poor in either area, he just doesn't seem able to actually box effectively and score points without putting himself right in the trenches. With the way Marquez(who looked about as you'd expect him to have) was able to catch him repeatedly in close with those counter hooks, it's hard to imagine him taking the same medicine from a Gamboa. That fight would be a massacre imo.

[KananKrus]

Rafa fighting JuanMa was a déjà vu of some sort to that of his brother, Juan Manuel's scrap with Floyd Jr. in October of last year!

Against JuanMa Lopez, Rafael was a bit too old, appeared too small, and noticeably underpowered to compete at par. Add to that, because he was fighting two weight categories from peak, he did not possess that one-punch, "stop on track" power one is necessitated to be armed with in order to compete at a disadvantaged situation in a scrap. That brief canto in round four, undeniably Rafael's brilliant moment, was not only the golden opportunity to disprove the highway outcome everyone have mostly viewed as the conclusion of a JuanMa Lopez dominance, but likewise a telltale sign that a puncher's chance, Rafael in that fight, was without.

In other words, plainly, Rafael Marquez' date, as was with his brother's own ominous one with PBF Jr, was "unarmed" of a puncher's chance against Juan Manuel Lopez last Saturday. Although this obviously is financially rewarding, it can be considered an ill-adviced career move in as far as preserving maximum regard to one's resume' is concerned... IMHO.

To this all, I will be surprised to ever see Rafael in a rematch with Juan Manuel anytime soon, as it is, the talks for a rematch is as hollow as the shoulder injury suffered at fight-night, if one is reminded that he was the receiving party of a battering administered at full fury by the advantaged side from the young and capable, undefeated Puerto Rican, Juan Manuel Lopez.

A rematch only singularly makes sense to that side of Juan Ma's. All things considered, and with a special emphasis to health, it is foolish to think that it likewise seem at all feasible on Rafa's perspective, not to mention for immediate family and well wishers as well.

IMHO, in bringing excitement at the fingertips, the two combatants proved boxing is still king! Take a bow Juan Manuel Lopez, and equally, Rafael Marquez.

And as for the Juan Ma vs. Juan Ma. The true grit shootout at junior lightweight... the Puerto Rican young lion might be accused of accelerating his call for prominence a bit! Hear, hear... got to give him that... but this is what to be regarded as Lopez' first real test. Regardless of JMM advancing age, this stll is one feather for the cap, and one for resume'... for both!