It is time to eat your crow. How many said that Marquez didn't stand a chance? How many thought he was going down in the first half of the fight? How many thought Pac was taking an easy fight, a mismatch even? Well if you are going to talk big then you should man up when you are proven to be absolutely wrong. Don't worry, you are not alone. I called it all wrong, I thought Pac was going to make him look terrible. I predicted an undersized, overweight, slow as **** Marquez to be blown away. I was obviously horribly wrong. So lets hear it, if your prediction got blown up come here and admit it. Hell, justify yourself if you want; but at the very least admit that you were wrong. It doesn't even have to be people who had the most recent JMM Vs. Pac fight all wrong (though those people should flood here in droves). Come on guys, you will feel better for it.
Expected Marquez to get blown away within 5 rounds at most. Marquez deserves a lot of respect for everything he has achieved, extremely underrated great fighter.
I didn't expect Juan to win the majority of the rounds. My prediction was Juan wins 3-4 rounds while making emmanuel fight for a tough earned decision win.
I was rooting for him from the start but also thought he was gonna get stopped, and I AM GLAD I WAS WRONG AND WILL GLADLY ADMIT IT :good
I was wrong. I expected to be saddened by the sight of Marquez getting dominated and/or stopped. Feeling heartsick over another robbery (which is honestly even worse) was the furthest thing from my mind as a possibility.
The decision left me feeling empty. I didn't think JMM won either of the first two fights decisively; I thought both of them were too close to call decisively. However, I sure as hell thought he won this one. If they had called it a draw I would have felt bad; but to give Pac the win... It is too much. I hate watching boxing matches only to feel shitty after them. I watch the sport for entertainment, not to be depressed.
I felt Marquez rallied to win more than enough rounds in 2004 to offset the knockdowns and win, with the draw being unfair. I felt he won the rematch even more convincingly. Last night was a right hand clinic from round 5 on, and it can't really have be any closer than 116-112 for Marquez. In fact, it isn't hard to envision budging a couple of my rounds to arrive at this person's 118-110 card: http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/Manny-Pacquiao-Juan-Manuel-Marquez-Round-by-round-111211 He gets screwed worse and worse every time he steps in the ring with this guy.