Érik Morales vs. Juan Manuel Márquez

Morales and JMM are in Fight Night round 2.... That's the closest anyone will get to seeing that dream match.

 

I've seen better CAW's, But I did download a pretty spot on Floyd Mayweather a few years ago...

Fight Night Round 2 had a lot of good fighters, and was the 1st and last game that had both Pacquaio and Mayweather together in a licensed video game... I might just pull the PS2 out right now and play it!

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I think this is where most fans views of Marquez vs Pacquiao are flawed.
They automatically equate Marquez getting dropped means he must have gotten punished.

The reality is that out of the first 36 rounds that were fought, Marquez got dropped in just two of the rounds. Marquez controlled most of those rounds and the only time where he really was taking a beating was in the 4th fight where Marquez just had made up his mind that it was kill or be killed.


No resignation in Marquez simply because of his ability to anticipate and decipher Pacquiao's movements. His ablity to throw accurate straight rights over Pacquiao's left lunges , Pacquiao very rarely hit Marquez with two straight clean shots in a row after the first couple of rounds of fight 1.

First 3 fights were mightily hard fought. Beatings? No!
Aside from the fact Pacquiao got outboxed, he took more a beating than actually Marquez did, body and head.


Now, fight 4 is a different story, both fighters took a beating, back and fourth all 6 rounds.

WAR! CAUSE Juan Manuel Marquez said so! WAR!!!!:deal

 

I know right! I guess they tried to get him in Fight Night Round 4, but he demanded too much money to use his likeness.. Pretty stupid considering he was already in Fight Night Round 2...

 

Floyd Mayweather... It's a shame I would have whooped a lot of ass with him.

 

Morales imo after the first Pacquiao fight needed to take long rest.
Fighthing a mover like Raheem in his first fight at 135 lbs was a huge mistake. You don't take those types of challenges in stay busy fights.

In hindsight, I do think Morales may have elongated his prime a bit.
Not sure he beats Pacquiao again quite honestly because at the time Pacquiao had Ariza and his shakes, Morales really didn't have a strenghth and conditioning coach, he did his training the old fashioned way similar to Nacho having Marquez throw rocks over his head to prepare for Mayweather.

At the very least, Morales may have not gotten overwhelmed with just the sheer energy Pacquiao brought to the table with him having struggled to even make weight.

 

Hey juanturd, are you really blaming Ariza and his shakes, but Memo (a PROVEN PED SMUGGLER) didn't turn Marquez into a science project?

These delusional juanturds make me laugh

 

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Divac has never made a productive contribution. It's extremely biased and comical to read. Just look at his posts. According to the juanturd, JMM nearly beat Mayweather and dominated Pacquiao in every round of their fights, and he never used PEDs with Heredia but his opponents did.