Thirty years ago this week: Juan Manuel "Dinamita" Márquez Méndez begins imperfectly perfect career

Dynamicpuncher · Jun 7, 2023

You can see from my Avatar that I'm a big fan.

Dannymita · Jun 8, 2023

IntentionalButt said: ↑

EM as well but for me it was an easier cull.

A victory over Hamed would have meant far less after Barrera exposed him, and letting JMM get to him first would deprive MAB (of whom I'm an even bigger fan) of his starmaking triumph.

Rematches with Norwood, John or Bradley stylistically would have always just risked the results being repeated and further damaging his legacy, and yeah, they weren't among his most exciting fights anyway.

I scored all three decisions for Márquez over Pacquiao in the initial trilogy, but I'm satisfied with the KO6 being the conclusion and lasting impression of their rivalry and ultimately serving justice for none of them going JMM's way.

For the reasons you stated (being dragged up past his prime two divisions from lightweight, itself already two divisions above his peak weight, in an intended cherry-pick for the sport's p4p #1) the loss to Mayweather doesn't count against him all that much. It's just embarrassing for various reasons. (the pee drinking, the bulking up like a Venice beach meathead and looking horribly slow in the ring - and the most lopsided defeat of his career, even if for understandable and forgivable reasons).

Morales vs. Márquez is the classic we the fans of that era deserved and never got, and it would have closed the circle on the four-way rivalry involving both of them, Pacquiao and Barrera. It's very high on the list of fights I'd prioritize with a time machine.
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Couldn't ha e said it better...but yeah I do hate that he drank his own **** lol

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