Marquez vs. Morales deal reached for April 9th, WBC Diamond Belt at stake as well

[Kev]

At first I thought this fight was Marquez's admission that his fight career in terms of chasing belts and unifying titles was effectively over, that he just wants to go the Roy Jones and B Hop routes and earn some easy money to finish off his career fighting fellow vets and settling old scores.

But on reflection with Soto, Bradley, Alexander and Khan all comitted to fights it's difficult to see who else he could fight.

There is no higher profile fight out there for him as I see unless he wants to go up to welter weight and I think we all agree that's a bad idea.

Maybe a fight with Guerrero but that is a big risk for little reward imo. Morales will sell a lot more tickets.

[Rantcatrat]

At first I thought this fight was Marquez's admission that his fight career in terms of chasing belts and unifying titles was effectively over, that he just wants to go the Roy Jones and B Hop routes and earn some easy money to finish off his career fighting fellow vets and settling old scores.

But on reflection with Soto, Bradley, Alexander and Khan all comitted to fights it's difficult to see who else he could fight.

There is no higher profile fight out there for him as I see unless he wants to go up to welter weight and I think we all agree that's a bad idea.

Maybe a fight with Guerrero but that is a big risk for little reward imo. Morales will sell a lot more tickets.

Bradley and Alexander fight this weekend. They would be read for another fight in 90 days time. This is money play. It's fine. I personally think other than Pacquiao, which is also a money play, his career of unifying and taking tough fights is probably over.

[bzkfn]

At first I thought this fight was Marquez's admission that his fight career in terms of chasing belts and unifying titles was effectively over, that he just wants to go the Roy Jones and B Hop routes and earn some easy money to finish off his career fighting fellow vets and settling old scores.

But on reflection with Soto, Bradley, Alexander and Khan all comitted to fights it's difficult to see who else he could fight.

There is no higher profile fight out there for him as I see unless he wants to go up to welter weight and I think we all agree that's a bad idea.

Maybe a fight with Guerrero but that is a big risk for little reward imo. Morales will sell a lot more tickets.

Well really, I think a fight with Khan was on the table. He said if not Morales, he'd move up in weight for a 4th weight world title. There was also an offer to fight Berto available too.