The JMM that fought Casamayor vs Duran-could JMM survive long enough to do damage?

Duran on his game would end this in 5 rounds

 

True about Diaz having some success on inside. The thing is Diaz has no power in his punches. Duran's punching power was serious.

 

None of JMMs LW opposition has had the level of success most people believe they had. Diaz had some success early, but he was still getting countered and hurt from the offset for his troubles. Katsidis barely won a round, the KD aside. And Marquez controlled Casa and was for more accurate throughout. These 3 were pretty much the best the LW division had to offer, Casa is a great fighter albeit faded, Diaz was the heir apparent, Katisidis was a young bull.

 

He's arguably beaten 2

 

2 great or borderline great lightweights?.

 

Pacquaio will go down as great and retrospectively LW would be his optimal weight.

Casamayor is borderline for me, given the Corrales wins (arguably won all 3), the Freitas fight he deserved, thought he deserved Castillo and Kid Diamond fights, then he has the Nate Campbell/Katsidis wins, his SFW championship run and the fact he arguably went unbeaten for quite a long time

 

Casa isn't a borderline great, he is a borderline HOF. Fairly big difference.

 

Depends where you draw the line, I doubt he gets in the HOF because he wasn't famous enough, his opponents werent famous enough and he got on the wrong end of some decisions

 

This, not to mention he was a fair ways removed from his overrated prime when Marquez went tooth and nail with him, as he always seems to do at Lightweight, regardless of who he's fighting.

 

3, you forgot Katsidis the GREAT :good

 

:thumbsup

 

After viewing the 1st JMM-Diaz fight recently, I can't see any way that JMM survives more than a couple of rounds vs a peak Duran. It would be a horrible slaughter.

 

I actually think that Duran would assume the role of counter puncher in this fight, and make JMM take the lead. And while that strategy might allow Marquez to win a couple of the early rounds, I think it would allow Duran to catch him on the way in with something big around the third or fourth round, and either drop him for the count or at the least do enough damage that he would put him on the defensive for the remainder of the fight.

And if the second scenario happened, I could see Duran gradually grinding down a game JMM and stopping him in the 9-11 round range just by virtue of having superior power, strength, and defensive abilty.

 

Duran KO 7, after 6 rounds of him slamming punches into JMM's body and head.