My thoughts on the career of JMM

I never claimed he was avoided. I said it's a shame he didn't get the big fights.

I'm not a mexican nor am I a marquez fan. If you read my rbr you should see objective scoring and I have no idea how it can be scored for norwood.

Do you have sources for him turning down these fights?

 

just in the interest of fairness I sat down and rewatched the mab-jmm fight and what a fight it is, so much back and forth. brilliant fight really was.

in reality i have jmm winning by 1 point, but due to the kd/foul incident it looks a lot wider.

mab-jmm
1: 10-9 - very close round but i think mab did the better work and looked more in control
2: 10-9 - good round by mab using his jab effectively and mixing up some nice combos. good finish by jmm.
3: 9-10 - another close round, mab was strong enough to meet jmm punch for punch but came off worse in the exchanges especially towards the end of the round
4: 9-10 - good work by marquez who opened up more and landed some nice shots with a good display of ring generalship and effective aggression.
5: 9-10 - good display of accuracy and aggression by marquez in this round, brilliant jabbing by mab at the close but not enough.
6: 9-10 - great back and forth round with slightly more "forth" coming from jmm.
7: 8-10 - easily a jmm round until the knockdown which wasn't called. but mab hit jmm whilst down so he loses a point.
8: 10-9 - brilliant round with exchanges from both men but mab finished stronger.
9: 9-10 - great display of clean effective punching by jmm in this round, catching mab clean even on the back foot.
10: 9-10 - brilliant all round display of ring generalship, effective aggresion and clean effective punching by jmm in this round.
11: 9-10 - not much of note happened in this round but marquez landed the better shots.
12: 10-9 - good jabbing displayed by mab in this round and he was willing to stand and trade when jmm cut him off.

111-116 * with the kd in the 7th it would be 113-114

 

i'm a teacher meaning until august 31st I have nothing but time :good

 

just reading that paragraph highlights how complicated and subjective even scoring a kd is.

to keep it simple i put automatic 10-8 for the kd and assume the ref starts counting hence mab returns to a neutral corner, that's how it should have happened. but due to ref incompetence, jmm clearly won the round, no kd was scored and mab lost a point for a foul.

 

looking at mab, there was hesitation and confusion, just watching the fight I imagine his inner monologue ran "getting my arse kicked, yes he's down, wait no count from the ref, no instructions, carry on attacking till told otherwise"

 

i'm not lenient, i scored it 10-8 jmm.

what i do think is if the ref would have immeditaely started the count the foul wouldn't have happened and the round would be 10-8 mab.

the second paragraph is of course just speculation, as i said, i scored it 10-8 jmm.

 

That's his job, if he's in the wrong position it's again bad reffing.

Yeah I have my faults, for instance I haven't scored an even round since the first fight I ever scored (leonard - hagler). Maybe the kd isn't always enough to win a round automatically, maybe there is just cause in certain cases but by and large a kd is 10-8. As I say, I like to keep it simple.

 

Was it worse than the nightmare you had when I put calzaghe above morales haha