Mayweather Dominates Marquez In Return

Posted by Igor Frank on 09.20.2009

Igor Frank reports from ringside in Las Vegas on Floyd Mayweather's complete domination of Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday night.



Las Vegas - What was an obvious mismatch on paper turned out to be just that. On Saturday night Floyd Mayweather Jr. completely outclassed smaller and older and slower Juan Manuel Marquez in front of 13,116 fans at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Twenty two month lay off and various distractions outside of the ring seemed to have no ill effects on "Money" Mayweather, who looked flawless while teaching Marquez and every one in attendance a lesson in sweet science: " Hit and don't get hit." Using his substantial size and reach advantage, Mayweather, who is not known for employing it often, came out firing hard accurate jabs upstairs and downstairs driving his opponent back and established his dominance from the very first round. Keeping Mexican ring great completely off balance and in the center of the ring with the jab, Mayweather was also springing lightning fast left hooks that Marquez couldn't keep up with. One of those left hooks landed flush in the second stanza. Marquez, who never saw it coming, went down hard on the canvas. Brave champion got up and beat the count, but looked hurt. Mayweather, who never takes any chances inside the ring or with picking his opponents, attacked cautiously and allowed Marquez to get out of the round. However from that point on the outcome of the fight was a foregone conclusion. Despite never being able to mount any offence and continuously being beat to a punch, proud Mexican warrior, whose face showed signs of discouragement in the corner, never stopped trying and ended the fight on his feet.

Mayweather, who could have finished the fight any time after the fifth stanza, elected to pot shot and completely dominate his opponent, but not take any risks. At times it became painful to watch as Mayweather was landing his sharp punches at will and continued to bust up his obviously outgunned adversary. The advantage in size and strength was so pronounced, it was like watching a man beating up a boy. Even though Marquez managed to land some flush punches, he had absolutely no effect on Floyd.

"Finish with dignity," were the final instructions that Marquez received from his famed corner man, Nacho Beristain in between rounds eleven and twelve. Despite taking more punishment, Marquez did just that, but it was a very hard day at the office. Judge William Lerch scored the fight 118-109, Dave Moretti scored it 119-108 and Burt Clements scored it 120-107. Marquez might take solace in knowing that he just made a biggest pay day of his professional career and earned an additional six hundred thousand dollars when Mayweather weighed in two pounds over a contracted 144 pounds weight limit.

As if he did not have enough advantages, Mayweather decided not to drain himself to make weight and pay the fine instead. He refused to do an unofficial weigh in the day of the fight, but was probably ten pounds heavier than his opponent inside the squared circle. When asked about the fine "Money "Mayweather said: "I don't want to talk about money.

Mayweather might have put on a boxing clinic landing fifty nine percent of his punches opposed to Marquez only landing 12 percent, but he did not gain any fans because of his unwillingness to take any chances in the ring A fan, friend of mine left a message that he would never watch another fight with Mayweather:" He is the most boring boxer!"I guess, not every one appreciates the way Mayweather fights.

We might never know how truly great Mayweather is because he carefully selects his opponents making sure the deck is always stacked in his favor. Winning all forty of his fights, Mayweather has never really been challenged in the ring Would Floyd ever takes a chance and fight somebody on the level playing filed? Would Floyd ever fight a real strong welterweight? Desperate Sugar Shane Mosley, who does not seem to be able to secure a meaningful fight after demolishing Antonio Margarito earlier this year, uncharacteristically barged into a post fight interview and challenged Mayweather in front of all the fans. Floyd was flustered at first, but then turned it around: "Shane is really desperate that was disrespectful. That was my fight and my moment to shine and he ruined it." Would we ever get to see Mayweather shine?