The Perfect Moment for Casamayor to Retire.

I disagree. In hindsight, yes. But he looked decent in that fight, it was even, or close to even, going into the championship rounds. Right before he got KO'd... ok... so he looked past his best, but he was still very competitive against arguably the best fighter in the world at the time. There were not enough negatives in that fight to prompt him to retire.

What I fear now is, he'll fight on, and get beat up and hurt for shitty pay by guys who weren't fit to lace his boots in the middle part of the last decade.

 

Got to agree with this. Guerrero let his buddy off the hook. Other fighters won't be so kind.

 

Oh yeah, if the retirement is going to come after taking a beating from bums, which looks likely somewhere down the line, then the JMM fight would have been MUCH better time to retire. But was post-JMM better than now - against Guerrero? I mean, he looked ok, had a good last few rounds and was laughing and smiling at the end. Going the distance against Guerrero was a marginally better moment to retire then being KO'd by Marquez.

 

There was very little genuine, sustained aggression in the fight. I don't know if this was because Guerrero couldn't finish, or jhe ust choose to carry him. But I didn't see Joel make any adjustments, it was just Guererro taking his foot of the gas. Every time he got pressured with combinations, Joel looked likely to go.