barrera vs marquez?

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I didnt get a chance to see the fight Im still at work. can anybody tell me how it went.
who won, was there alot of action, please let me know.

Answer 1

LAS VEGAS, March 17th – By out-pointing boxing legend Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez finally reached the end of a long and winding road to respect, recognition and redemption. His journey was rife with setbacks and mismanagement but the unanimous decision victory that earned him the WBC 130-pound title made up for all of the mistakes and missed opportunities that until tonight had defined his career.

Marquez, who won the all-Mexico City showdown by scores of 118-109 and 116-111 (twice), had to get up from a seventh-round knockdown and a follow-up foul from Barrera that punctuated one of the more exciting rounds of the bout that often had the crowd of 8,127 in the Mandalay Bay’s Event Center up on the their feet and cheering to the top of their lungs.

Intense exchanges and the kind of well-timed power punches and combinations that only the most seasoned veterans can produce highlighted the junior lightweight title bout that erased the bad taste that the poor scoring from the two previous 12-round bouts on the HBO Pay-Per-View-televised card left in the mouths of the fans.

Now the fans’ mouths are watering for a rematch, and Marquez is happy to give Barrera, the most accomplished boxer from Mexico since Julio Cesar Chavez, an immediate crack at his old title.

“Barrera is a great champion,” Marquez, who improved to 47-3-1 (35), said after the fight. “He connected with a nice right hand to my chin [in the seventh round]. He deserves a rematch.”

The right hand that Marquez referred to landed right on the button just as he was winding up with a right hand of his own. The punch put Marquez down on all fours with seconds remaining a seventh round, but referee Jay Nady did not see the punch land and thus did not recognize the knockdown.

“From where I was standing I didn’t see the punch land,” Nady said. “I thought [Barrera] knocked him down with his shoulder.”

Nady did not miss the follow-up foul shot that Barrera landed to the top of Marquez’s head while he was still down. He immediately penalized Barrera one point, a point that he couldn’t afford to lose.

Although Barrera, now 63-5 (42), bravely stood his ground with Marquez in the eighth round, which produced one of the best rounds of action so far this year and tried his best to steal the late rounds with final second flurries, it was his equally skilled but lesser known countryman who initiated the majority of the exchanges, consistently beating him to the punch.

Marquez’s landed flashy lead left hooks, picture-perfect body shots, and right crosses that often rocked Barrera’s head back. Those right hands buckled Barrera’s legs at the start of the seventh round, and follow-up combinations forced the three-division champ into the ropes where he valiantly fought back, but also took more than his share of punishment.

It may be the reason why a frustrated Barrera lashed out at Marquez after dropping his antagonist at the end of the seventh, though the veteran denied any bad blood after the fight.

“This is boxing, we are Mexicans, this is a sport,” Barrera said. “I did the necessary things to win the fight. [In the seventh round] he went down and the referee didn’t touch me [to break up the fighters]. I never connected that punch. I never threw it because I knew he was down. He hit me four times below the belt and nothing was done about it.”

Marquez, whose face was reddened and bloody mask by the end of the fight, did more than land borderline body punches. He also landed a lot of jabs. It’s not often that Barrera finds himself in the ring with an opponent who can match his jab. It’s seldom that he finds himself in the ring with a fighter who can match his heart, either, but he found one in Marquez, whether or not the proud warrior is willing to admit that he lost the fight.

“They were bad judges,” Barrera said. “I won that fight.”

Barrera was right about tonight’s judges, but not the ones for his fight.

In the co-featured bout of the Golden Boy Promotions-promoted card, Daniel Ponce DeLeon retained his WBO 122-pound title with a surprisingly one-sided (on the scorecards) unanimous decision over former 115-pound titlist Gerry Penalosa. DeLeon, who improved to 31-1 (28), won by scores of 119-109 (twice) and 120-108.

The writers among press row saw a much closer bout. That could have gone either way. Those favoring DeLeon thought he was the busier fighter in a slight majority of the rounds. Those favoring Penalosa, now 51-6-2 (35), thought the Filipino veteran landed the cleaner and harder power punches to the title holder’s stationary head in the majority of the 12 rounds.

How veteran judge Dave Moretti scored all 12 rounds for DeLeon was beyond anyone sitting in the media section. The 119-109 scorecards of Chuck Giampa and Nelson Vazquez were equally head scratching. Vazquez only scored the second round for Penalosa. Giampa only scored the 11th for the 34 year old from the Philippines.

In reality, after DeLeon took the first round with stiff jab and hard left hand whacks to the right side of Penalosa’s body, the skilled Filipino southpaw teed off on the younger, stronger Mexican with well-timed counter right hooks and left crosses for the next six rounds. DeLeon did his best to impose his will on Penalosa, focusing almost exclusively on the body in the fourth round, but once he realized that the veteran could take his best shot he began to give up ground to the Filipino looking a bit bewildered as he tried to figure out a way to land a punch that would turn the tide.

DeLeon never found that one big punch to hurt or floor Penalosa, but he did land a lot of ugly jabs and wild body shots down the stretch that obviously impressed the judges and made the difference on the scorecards of many sitting among press row. While Penalosa took his foot off the gas pedal as he stalked the bigger man in the late rounds of the bout, DeLeon kept his hands moving non-stop at the same time he back pedaled away from the smaller man.

DeLeon threw a total of 1,399 punches in the bout, according to CompuBox, the third all-time total for a junior featherweight, and in the end that was what the official judges paid attention to.

In the opening bout of the HBO Pay-Per-View broadcast, Demetrius Hopkins improved to 26-0-1 (10) with a unanimous and dubious 12-round decision over former 130-pound titlist Steve Forbes. Hopkins, who won by inexplicable scores of 118-110 (twice) and 117-111, retained his USBA 140-pound title but lost the support of the crowd as soon as the scorecards were announced.

Bernard Hopkins, Demetrius’ uncle and a partner at Golden Boy Promotions, which promotes the young junior welterweight, used to strong-arm people for their gold chains and wallets on the streets of Philadelphia before he spent five years in prison, rehabilitated his life and went on to be on the greatest middleweight champions in history.

You can’t say that Hopkins’ “strong-armed” Forbes tonight because ‘the Contender: Season Two’ finalist easily out-muscled the younger, bigger Philadelphian on the inside for much of the bout, but the younger man definitely robbed the veteran with the help of judges Robert Hoyle, Glenn Trowbridge and Dalby Shirley.

Hoyle and Trowbridge only scored two rounds for Forbes. Shirley scored three for the former titleholder.

The media and the fans in attendance saw a much different fight, one that favored busier workrate and body attack of Forbes, whose record dropped to 32-5 (9).

After a pedestrian opening round, Forbes began to work his way past Hopkins’ long jab and get off with left hooks and body shots on the inside that forced the near 6-foot-tall prospect back on his heels. For much of the first half of the bout, Forbes forced the action and made Hopkins retreat. In the late rounds, Hopkins found a second wind and did his best to stand and trade with Forbes in the center of the ring, but these rounds seemed evenly contested at best.

One theory for the questionable official scoring is that up close to the action, Hopkins was landing the harder punches. From press row, and especially in the arena audience and to those watching on TV, neither fighter landed any significantly hard punches of note.

On the non-televised undercard, Golden Boy-Promoted bantamweight contender Diosdado Gabi looked impressive in blasting Colombia’s Antonio Cochero out in the second round of a scheduled 10. The Philippines’ Gabi, now 29-3-1 (21), shocked former champ Mauricio Pastrana with a first-round KO last year and looks to have bounced back from a stoppage loss to IBF flyweight titlist Vic Darchinyan. Cochero dropped to 17-5-1 (13)

California’s Sergio Espinosa upset Marco Antonio Barrera-managed prospect Juan Alberto Rosas via 10-round decision to improve to 14-2-1 (5). Rosas, of Tepic, Mexico, dropped to 25-2 (22)

Nacho Beristain-managed featherweight prospect Eduardo Escobedo improved to 19-2 (13) with third-round stoppage of fellow Mexican Edel Ruiz, who dropped to 28-17-4 (19).

Las Vegas-based junior welterweight prospect Anthony Martinez improved to 3-0 (3) by stopping Texas’ Jesus Villareal, now 1-1-1, in the second round. Martinez recently signed with Golden Boy Promotions.

In the opening bout of the evening, Golden Boy Promotion’s new heavyweight signee Ashanti Jordan, an amateur standout from Oakland, made a successful pro debut by stopping Texas’ Eric Molina, now 0-1, in the first round.

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barrera vs marquez?
I didnt get a chance to see the fight Im still at work. can anybody tell me how it went.
who won, was there alot of action, please let me know.

Answer 3

I didn't see it, but one of my buddies just told me that Marquez won a 12 round unanimous decision.

Answer 4

This was the best fight I've seen in this year and maybe in the past 3 years. Marquez won

Answer 5

THE GREATEST fight that I saw..........MARQUEZ IS THE WINNER BY UNANIMOUS DECISION.........