Mayweather vs. Marquez = Huge Mismatch

This fight is an utter joke. I for one am not in the least bit interested in seeing this bout and watching poor Juan Manuel Marquez get slaughtered. If you people think that Marquez has a chance against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Saturday night then I have some desert property I want to sell you. This is going to be a royal slaughter and if you want to pay to see this farce, it’s on you.

This is cherry picking by Mayweather at its worst. Seriously, this is bad for boxing to have a fight this one-sided. By the way, I hear that the tickets still aren’t sold out for Saturday’s bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. And that is really pathetic.

This fight should be sold out if people really cared about it, but clearly people like me are too smart to throw their money away in this circus attraction. The reason why I see this as a gross mismatch is simple. Marquez is older, smaller, slower and has much less boxing skills than Mayweather.

Marquez is 36-years-old and has been through a number of hard bouts in the past two years and taken a lot of punishment against Joel Casamayor, Manny Pacquiao and Juan Diaz. Marquez probably should have won all three of the bouts, but got ripped off in the fight against Pacquiao last year in March, losing by a 12 round split decision in a poorly scored fight.

Saturday’s fight matches two counter punchers up against each other and it will be interesting to see who does the attacking in the fight. I doubt it will be Mayweather, I can say that much. Mayweather may be the bigger fighter of the two, but he’s not into taking chances and will probably do what he always does, in other words, sit back and wait for Marquez to come to him so that he doesn’t need to be the one to take any chances.

The pay isn’t fair, because Mayweather is getting a huge $15 million dollar payday, I hear compared to a much smaller amount for Marquez. I don’t think Mayweather is worth that kind of cash, not in this fight he is. This isn’t a mega fight to me.

I consider a mega fight one where there are two evenly matched fighters, like if Mayweather were to be fighting Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Shane Mosley, Antonio Margarito or Paul Williams. I consider those mega fights because I consider them as fighters that could fight Mayweather on even terms pretty much and wouldn’t be a t huge weight size, and skill disadvantage like Marquez will be against Mayweather.

William may be a light middleweight right now, but he only moved up in weight because all the other welterweights were afraid to fight him. Williams could move back down at a moments notice if Mayweather would show interest in fighting him.

Are you kidding? Mayweather won’t fight Williams. Mayweather will never fight Williams, at least not in this lifetime, even though Williams has fought most of his career up until recently at welterweight. Mayweather fans love to say that it wouldn’t be fair because Williams is much taller than Mayweather.

If that’s the case, then why is Mayweather fighting Marquez? Answer me that? Mayweather has freakishly much longer arms than Marquez, almost six inches longer. If Mayweather fought Williams, then Mayweather would be the one at the huge disadvantage. If it’s fair for a fight for Marquez, then it should be the same for a fight with Williams.

Of course Mayweather won’t fight Williams, nor will he fight Joshua Clottey, Cotto, Margarito or Mosley. This is called cherry picking. And the worst part is that boxing fans still have to pay the same kind of big money that they would be paying if Mayweather to fight someone his own size and ability.

That is such a joke. It’s like having a grand chess champion go to elementary school to beat up on some poor 6th grader in chess.

Mayweather has everything going for him in this fight with Marquez – speed, age, weight, boxing skills, taller, longer reach, power, accuracy, experience against top level opposition and home crowd. Need I say more?

Source: boxingnews24.com