The Boxing Diary: Juan Manuel Marquez

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Friday, August 28, 2015

Boxing's Top 3 face-first knockout

Rey Tecson Features , Juan Manuel Marquez

As a boxing fan, I love matches that ended with knockouts. Who don’t like it by the way?

But of course, I like also those tactical fights.

It will show exactly what the sweet science is all about. But in general, fan-friendly fights were those that ended in knockouts.

In this post, I ranked the most brutal one—the face-first planted knockouts. A fighter was out (no need for the 10 count) even before its face hit the floor. The fighter consciousness separated from his body, soon after the punch landed, making the hands incapable defending the fall---having its face-first hit the floor!

Here's my Boxing's Top 3 face-first knockout

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3. Mairis Briedis KO 5 Manuel Charr

Even hardcore boxing fans don't know that this fight happened on Aug. 22. Not until the undefeated Mairis (17-0, 14 KOs) knockout Charr (28-4, 16 KOs) in a brutal face-first dive style. The video of the knockout makes rounds on the internet.

It is a potential KO of the year! This is what exactly a fighter should do if he wanted to get noticed. Let your hands do the talking. Briedis did it! He did it to the tune of right uppercut, left hook combination. Watch it!

2. Sergio Martinez KO2 Paul Williams rematch

In the first bout, former lineal middleweight champion Martinez (51-3-2, 28 KOs) lost to a majority decision, but they exchanged knockdown in the first round. It only showed that both men has the power to knocked its other.

In the rematch, as early as the second round, Martinez landed a left hook that shocked Williams' (41-2, 27 KOs) world! What made it look so gross to see -- apart from Williams face-first flight to the floor -- is that he was lying with eyes wide open for few seconds.

It looked like a crime scene, but it stayed like that for few seconds though. In God's grace Williams recovered quickly and fought two more fights (winning all those) before a shocking accident brought him out of the ring for good. But the fight is not over for the great champion. Keep punching Champ!

1. Juan Manuel Marquez KO6 Manny Pacquiao

Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez fought a total of 40 rounds in a four-fight series.

Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs) scored a total of five knockdowns; won 2 fights; one draw, before the stunning face-first knockout defeat happened---one second remaining in the sixth round of fight number 4.

On the other hand, Marquez (56-7-1, 40 KOs) scored a total of two knockdowns---all were scored in fourth fight; lost twice; one draw, before he got the biggest win of his boxing career. Marquez landed a counter right hand that sent Pacquiao crashing face-first planted on the floor. The most devastating one-punch knockout making Pacquiao unconscious for few seconds leaving Pacquiao's country in total disbelief. Watch it!

At age 40, Marquez dominates Alvarado

Rey Tecson Features , HBO

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” ― Sophia Loren

The number 40 is just a number attached to Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez’s age. On Saturday night at the Forum, Inglewood, California Marquez get his hands raise against Mike “Mile High” Alvarado, who is seven years his junior.

Marquez, despite the older man — started strong and finished strong — in over 12 rounds of welterweight action.

The Mexican warrior is like wine; the more he aged in the squared circle, the more exhilarating he become.

I’m really amazed; as Marquez gets older he turns into an extremely exciting aggressive counterpuncher. What made Marquez extremely exciting is that he’s more dangerous when he’s in trouble — you ask Manny Pacquiao.

Although, there’s not much activity during the first seven rounds, as the used to be all-out-brawler, Alvarado chose to box from outside. Marquez is harvesting points in those rounds. Alvarado gave up so many rounds, thinking he could outbox Marquez.

You can only do that unless you’re a boxer named Floyd Mayweather Jr. — you ask Marquez this time.

After six rounds, I thought, Alvarado should start thinking his plan B, if there is any.

The fight becomes interesting starting round 8 as Alvarado floored Marquez during the exchanges. But “Dinamita” exploded in round 9, dropping Alvarado with precise combination to the head.

In round 12 Marquez made the final push, landing precise combinations, peppering Alvarado. After the final bell, the scores were 117-109, 117-109, and 119-108 all for Marquez.

Marquez could face Manny Pacquiao again, if he wants, as this fight is for WBO title eliminator. Pacquiao is currently the WBO champion.

HBO’s Max Kellerman asks Marquez his willingness to fight Manny Pacquiao for the fifth time; I feel Marquez’s hesitation from his answers.

“So you wanna fight Pacquiao again yes or no?“ asked Kellerman. “We will relax, I don’t know for the moment, but any decisions that I will take will be good for me, my family and all the Mexican fans“ replied Marquez with uncertainty.

This week’s boxing schedule: Marquez vs. Alvarado, Rodriquez, Cleverly; more

Rey Tecson Boxing Schedule , Juan Manuel Marquez

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The month of May has been explosive month for boxing, yet we are still in middle of this month. Mayweather-Maidana set the tone for this month as they engaged into a war, which is rare to see from the pound-for-pound king. In the second week, another war happened between Bermane Stiverne (24-1-1, 21 KO’s) and Chris Arreola (36-4, 21 KO’s). Stiverne froze Arreola with a big right hand in round six (Arreola was well ahead in the scorecards). Meanwhile, in the Philippines, Donnie Nietes (33-1-4, 19 KO’s) silenced critics by stopping Moises Fuentes in the rematch. Nietes continue reigning as the longest Filipino world champion. You can read my full fight recap here.

This week’s boxing schedule, starting Friday, May 16, we have Delvin Rodriguez (28-7-3, 16 KO’s) coming back in action on ESPN2, after losing to Miguel Cotto back in October last year. He will face Joachim Alcine (35-7-4, 21 KO’s) at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Also on that card is Joe Hanks vs. Derric Rossy.

Then on Saturday May 17, we have Juan Manuel Marquez (55-7-1, 40 KO’s) tangles horn with Mike Alvarado (34-2, 23 KO’s) at Forum, Inglewood, California. The outcome of this fight will determine if we will gonna, see Pacquaio vs. Marquez 5. If this fight will ever happen, it seems that Top Rank boss, Bob Arum is taking the fight to Macau. However, before we even think about Pacquiao-Marquez 5, Alvarado of course has another plan come Saturday night. I’ll have my preview and prediction up for this fight on this site later on. So, stay tuned.

In UK, also on Saturday (3:00 PM EDT) former light heavyweight Nathan Cleverly (26-1, 12 KO’s) will be back in the ring against Sean Corbin (17-4, 12 KO’s) at Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales. This will be Cheverly’s first attempt moving up at the cruiserweight division, after semi-retired for nine months. Cleverly was knockout by lightly regarded, at that time, Sergey Kovalev.

Here is the rest of this week’s boxing schedule:

Friday, May 16, 2014, SHO, 10:00 pm EDT

Joel Diaz Jr vs. Tyler Asselstine

Frank Galarza vs. Sebastien Bouchard

Saturday, May 17, Skysports UK

Gary Buckland vs. Gavin Rees

Lee Selby vs. Romulo Koasicha

Callum Smith vs. Tobias Webb

Unimas

Andy Ruiz Jr vs. Manuel Quezada,

Anton Novikov vs. Javier Castro,

Jose Benavidez vs. Angel Hernandez

Pacquiao picks Bradley for a rematch on April 12

Rey Tecson Features , Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Pacquiao has decided to face Timothy Bradley, according to Abac Cordero's "reliable source" via his article posted on Philstar.com,

The Filipino superstar, according to a reliable source, has decided to face Timothy Bradley in a rematch which Top Rank chief Bob Arum has set on April 12 in Las Vegas.

Few days ago Pacquiao challenged Mayweather in a fight for a charity in response to Mayweather's verbal jabs. Earlier. Mayweather labeled Pacquaio as "a desperate dog" who wanted to fight him because of his "68 million tax problems" from the IRS in the US, and BIR in the Philippines.

Pacquiao lost to Bradley in a controversial split decision on their first encounter in June 2012. And again Pacquiao lost to Marquez in his next fight. Marquez is among Pacquiao's option, but the Mexican star ruled out a fifth encounter with the Pacman.

I think, Pacquiao picks Bradley for a rematch because a win over the "Desert Storm" would somehow demerit his devastating loss to Marquez on December 2012. And if in September 2014 still there's no Floyd Mayweather fight -- Pacquiao may lure Marquez for a fifth fight.

Bradley won against Marquez last October for the WBO welterweight title once held by Pacquiao.

A Pacquiao win to both Bradley and Marquez in 2014 will bring more pressure to Mayweather for a super fight in 2015.

Mayweather stressed that his last fight would be on September 2015 -- the final fight of his 6-fight mega deal with Showtime/CBS contract.

What's next for Juan Manuel Marquez?

Rey Tecson Features , full-image

Reasonable amount of money, as always, can change firm decisions.

Do you want to see Marquez fights again Pacquiao? Or do you want him to retire now?

Mexican star and four division champion Juan Manuel Marquez was defeated soundly on Saturday, 12 Oct. 2013 by undefeated American Timothy Bradley via split decision. Judge Robert Hoyle scored 113-115, and Judge Patricia Morse Jarman saw it 112-116 for Bradley, while Judge Glenn Feldman scored 115-113 for Marquez.

Marquez was whining during the post fight press conference on this video from Fight Hub TV. He blamed the two judges who scored the fight against his favor. I think, judge Feldman score gave Marquez a strong case for his claim that he won the fight.

“The people saw a good performance, but the judges did it again,” Marquez said after the fight at the Thomas and Mack Center.

“We came prepared to win this fifth title. We were happy with this performance. Unfortunately, I didn’t get the victory. To fight here in Las Vegas, I need to knock people out to get a victory.”

Although, there were no outrageous complain regarding Feldman's score in favor of Marquez, but it doesn't mean to say that he won the fight, and that he was robbed. Bradley clearly won the fight for me. Unlike CJ Ross's score of Mayweather-Canelo on September, that earned a ton of criticism

Bradley was able to do what exactly what he wanted to do in the ring. He connected shots when he wanted. He engaged if he wanted. Although Marquez also did what he wanted: which is to counter, but could not land the amount of shots that will give him the nod of the other two judges.

Marquez counter shots were not able to catch the faster and more elusive Bradley.

Now, what's next for Juan Manuel Marquez?

Marquez is inclined to "retire" after his lose to Bradley. But, I think these are words of a disappointed Marquez. Although I believed that there are at least two fights left in him -- depending the outcome, now that he is already 40 years old.

Remember that Marquez was never been knockout so far in his career.

I agree with what Tyler Conway wrote here at Bleacher Report. I think what will make Marquez retire is the sport itself. Maybe after a first knockout defeat; Marquez will be forced out to retirement.

But so far, at this point, Marquez still has options. Although he ruled out not to fight Pacquiao again, but if Pacquiao wins against Rios; it may change his decision and fight.

Note that for sure, Pacquiao's stocks will rise again if he wins against Rios on November. And Marquez had leverage during negotiation because of his stunning knockout win against Pacquiao.

Timothy Bradley vs. Juan Manuel Marquez Preview and Prediction

Rey Tecson Juan Manuel Marquez , Prediction

The battle of Manny Pacquiao tormentors will be on 12 October 2013 at the Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada for the world welterweight title.

Juan Manuel Marquez (welterweight TBRB rank no. 2), will return to the ring to face Timothy Bradley (welterweight TBRB rank no. 4), after a spectacular knockout victory, in November of last year, over arch-rival, Filipino boxing icon, Manny Pacquiao.

Marquez 55-6-1 (KO 40), ended the rivalry of his long time nemesis with exclamation point. Marquez knocked Pacquiao out, with a big right hand, sending Pacquiao face-first to the floor with a second remaining in the sixth round.

Bradley, another Pacquiao tormentor, will climb the ring against Marquez, coming off a thrilling victory in March over Russian banger, Ruslan Provodnikov. Bradley defeated Pacquiao in paper, rather than in actual combat; awarded by a split decision victory of what has been considered as the most controversial decision in recent memory of boxing.

Judge C.J. Ross scored the bout, a mind-puzzling, 115-113 for Bradley. Ross is the same judge that scored 114-114, a draw, for Mayweather-Alvarez 'The One' fight card on 14 September. Ross made a self-imposed leave of absence from judging boxing after ‘The One’ controversy.

Going back to Bradley-Marquez fight; I think the winner of this fight will be Pacquiao's potential opponent in a rematch; after of course, if Pacquiao, will get past Mexican-American brawler, Brandon Rios in November. A Pacquiao rematch to either Bradley or Marquez is more feasible because they are all under Top Rank.

At an advance age, Marquez continues to explode like dynamite in every fight. I predicted Marquez to lose his 4th fight with Pacquiao. But the 'Dinamita' unleashed a deafening explosion that was heard in the four corners of the boxing world. It was really shocking. Some doubted as to how Marquez, 39 years old at that time, did it to Pacquiao.

A doubt, that Bradley even threatened that, "If this guy [Marquez] doesn't get drug tested at all by VADA or USADA then the fight's not going to happen." Bradley said.

What a big doubt, is it?

Well, Top Rank boss, Bob Arum managed to convince Bradley to go on with NSAC—not VADA or USADA.

Now, after a long introduction, let me breakdown Bradley vs. Marquez.

I consider Marquez as one of the most intelligent fighter in the sport, along with Floyd May weather Jr. and Bernard Hopkins. The Mexican veteran is a thinking fighter and excellent counter-puncher inside the ring. He can use opponent's aggressiveness to his advantage--ask Pacquiao.

I do not expect Marquez to show something different here rather than what he usually does, which is to counter... counter... and counter. Well, JMM is JMM, he will do exactly what a JMM should do.

It is with Bradley, whom I am excited to see, not just one but several approach to this fight. Bradley is famous to find ways to outwork his opponent. In his fight with Pacquiao, he tried to match speed with speed in the early rounds. He then realized that yes; he could match Pacquiao's speed, but not Pacquiao’s power. So, he tried another approach: which is to hit without getting hit. He tried to outbox Pacquiao, keep himself busy with the jab and moving around in the later rounds. That could have kept him earning the judges’ scorecards.

Fighting with Marquez, I think Bradley will try to be the aggressor in the first three rounds because Marquez is a slow starter. I see Bradley winning these rounds. Then, Marquez will start catching him up in the fourth and fifth round with crisp and precise counters. Bradley will then switch to boxing. In this approach, I’m afraid the fight could become boring. Maybe in the sixth until the tenth round, there will be lesser activity. Remember that: Marquez will not open up as much, if his opponent will not throw more. See Mayweather-Marquez. I feel that these rounds could be given by the judges either way.

Not unless, Marquez will realize that Bradley really don't have enough power in his punches. And opening up a little bit more is worth the risk. Well, I’m in doubt if Marquez will shift to being the aggressor once Bradley will go back a little deeper to his shell.

Then, I think in the championship round Bradley will go back to the offensive. He will then close the gap and work more the way he did with Devon Alexander, because Marquez, at 40 years old, might tire and may not have enough power to catch him with a single punch. This is where I believe Bradley’s third-hand played its role--the head-butt. You know Bradley's tendency. Will I hope Bradley's trademark head-butt will not be a factor here.

Larry Merchant commented on Bradley-Alexander fight: "It was another head-butt from Bradley that turned out to be the lethal fight-ending punch."

My final verdict:

I pick Bradley to win via unanimous or a majority decision.