The way Juan Manuel Marquez overcame Juan Diaz amid all kinds of adversity Saturday in their lightweight showdown has to make that the best candidate in sight for fight of the year.
Ricky Hatton has never been in a fight as good as Marquez-Diaz, and that includes his ugly signature win over Kostya Tszyu in 2005. He’ll be grabbing and gouging Manny Pacquiao on May 2 in a manner, or lack thereof, that will preclude that fight’s rising to the aesthetic levels of Marquez-Diaz.
Marquez, 10 years older, in only his second lightweight bout and looking less sturdy than Diaz, was behind after seven rounds, bleeding from left hooks sustained after Diaz would back Marquez into the corner. Not to mention that Marquez was bucking Diaz’s hometown crowd of 14,500 in Houston. Yet Marquez won. Diaz was sensational, raising his stock in this fight despite suffering the knockout loss in the ninth. That’s how special Marquez had to be.
Source: examiner.com
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