If JMM beats Casamayor while Calzaghe beats up a faded legend, should JMM jump to #2?

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That means you: Pugilist, TFFP, China_Hand_Joe, Smiffy etc.

If you want to comment, leave all of the biased dog**** you smear across every thread outside, and just please keep it to legitimate reasoning for this one. If you disagree, as you automatically will, just explain why. This thread is not an attack on Joe, I genuinely think JMM should go to #2 if he beats Casa (and that is a big IF!), and I will put down my reasons.

So,

right now Calzaghe is #2 and JMM is #3.

JM Marquez wants another crack at the world p4p#1 fighter, Pacquiao. So, when Pac moved up to lightweight, Marquez moved up too. Marquez took on the toughest guy available (Casa is The Ring champion and holds a UD over Nate Campbell), who had just stopped Michael Katsidis. Marquez is a natural featherweight, and Katsidis is possibly the hardest hitter in the division, and a big lightweight. Marquez is taking a HUGE risk here, in order to force Pacquiao back into the ring with him to prove who is better between those two warriors.

If Marquez does win he will become a three-weight world champion, and a SUPERFIGHT decider with Pacquiao will be sealed.



Compare this to what Calzaghe is doing just now.

Taking a fight with a guy who is more shot than Sonny Corleone, who hasn't fought top 10 ranked opposition in FOUR YEARS, was sparked twice when he was still mixing in good company, and has had those 4 years to age and decline since then. The result is academic, the arrangement is a money-making exercise, and the fight itself is a sorry mismatch.



Is there recent choices enough to say JMM should go above Calzaghe IF he wins? Or should Calzaghe hold onto his position even if Marquez achieves something special and gets the decider with Pacquiao, while Calzaghe is slapping around a shot legend for money??

I think I know the answer already as the Calzaghe freakboys would vote for him in a best ass poll with Jennifer Lopez, but I throw it open as I think it's a legitimate question- what do you think good people of ESB??

 

I felt the exact same way when I heard it was to be Calzaghe-Jones and not Calzaghe-Pavlik. So so disappointed.

 

I think Joe is p4p a better fighter than JMM, but I wouldn't complain too much if The Ring took this step. Joe shouldn't have took on a clearly shot fighter when he is p4p#2. Marquez is risking it all. That must mean something in boxing.

 

This is undeniably a good point.