Your Nishioka-Marquez scorecard

Rafa is a warrior, a Hall of Famer, and a legend - but in all honesty he's always been a very sore loser and kind of a baby about it.

 

Genetics.

 

Could be a case of "I'll never admit I lose, because when that happens I'm done in this sport, if I get stopped thats the referees fault"

 

:nod He is macho to the bone.

He fits that confident to the point of self-delusion profile to a T.

 

:yep

 

LOL reminds me of JMM

 

I thought it was a little closer than the official scores, 115-113 Nish would be the right fit.

 

:good

Close (on points) but very clear win for TSKN.

 

Would you have called it a robbery had Marquez gotten the nod?

 

Damn, I missed this fight. Who aired this fight and what time was it on? The Martinez fight completely overshadowed this. Did Showtime show it?

 

It would have been one. My five rounds for him were as generous as allowable. One could very well argue he lost the last nine rounds straight. Among those, only the 8th and 9th were even remotely close and Marquez barely edged them for me.

In rounds 4-7 Nishioka out-boxed Marquez quite clearly. In rounds 10-12 he was severely hurting him and it was difficult viewing for any Marquez fan (if I hadn't already known the result by the time it was replayed by means accessible to me, it would have really seemed he was on the precipice of a brutally bad knockout).

No wiggle room whatsoever in any of those seven rounds. From 117-111 to 115-113 Nishioka is the right range. Honestly, Nishioka could have even stolen the 1st on some cards - making 118-110 possible as well.

 

Nishioka won clearly.The left straight was landing all night long baby.Nish footwork and movement was giving Marquez problems.Nish just didn't stay still chosing when to trade and use his feet. Marquez looked slow and got tagged repeatedly by left straight and right hooks.I gave Marquez 4 rounds specially the round where Toshiaki got cut.The early rounds were close.

 

116-112 Speed King Nishioka

I believe Marquez's trainer scored it 117-111 Marquez.