Juan Manuel Marquez

Watch Marquez VS Diaz Fight Live Don’t miss the fight of JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ vs JUAN DIAZ this February 28, 2009 5:30PM at Toyota Center,Houston Texas. Marquez and Diaz will fight for the IBO lightweight title. JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ is a Mexican and the Ring lightweight world champion. Marquez is also known as Dinamita, 5ft 7in tall, orthoddox. Boxing Record 54 total fights,49 wins,36 wins by TKO, Losses 4, 1 Draw. JUAN DIAZ is a Mexican American from Houston, Texas. He is the former WBA, WBO and IBF world lightweight champion. He is also known as “Baby Bull”. 5ft 6 in tall, orthodox. Boxing ... Read Full Story

BY: Robert Epstein Let’s take a few seconds to go through last Saturdays fights. The big one of course was Juan Manuel Marquez 11 th round TKO over Joel Casmamayor. With the win Marquez claimed the WBO Lightweight Championship. Marquez looked great in beating down Casamayor, he was systematic in his attack and beat Casamayor to the punch the whole night. Marquez who never stopped punching landed a few big shots in the 10 th round which helped him establish complete control going into the 11 th round. In the 11 th round Casamayor tried to fight back but it was the tough Marquez ... Read Full Story

HOUSTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico stopped Juan Diaz in the ninth round of a furious slugfest on Saturday to claim the American's IBO lightweight title along with the vacant WBA and WBO crowns. Marquez, who was outworked by Diaz and felt his crunching left hooks early on, sliced through the American's defense with uppercuts from both hands to drop the local favourite twice in the ninth before the referee halted it at 2:40 of the round. Marquez improved to 50-4-1, while Diaz dropped to 34-2. "He's a fighter that throws a lot of punches," Marquez said in the ring ... Read Full Story

Juan Manuel Marquez stamped himself as the world's top lightweight with a ninth-round knockout of Juan Diaz in a thrilling title unification fight Saturday night at the Toyota Center. Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs) won the vacant WBA and WBO lightweight belts, plus Diaz's minor IBO title, finishing off the Houston native with a right uppercut at 2:40 of the ninth round. The 35-year-old Marquez, a former featherweight and super-featherweight champion, was fighting at 135 pounds for only the second time in his 15-year professional career. Diaz (34-2), a Houston native, called the fight the most important of his life, but lost for the second ... Read Full Story

Whatever interest Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez had, it has to have a lot less now after the weigh-in today, where Marquez weighed 142 pounds and Mayweather weighed 146, scratching the consensus view that the bout was to be held at 144. Marquez was already making a big leap up from lightweight, and those extra pounds count all the more because of it. Marquez was a serious underdog from the start. He has to be even more of one now. You have to wonder if this wasn't always part of the plan. For reasons that the boxing press could never really determine -- a massive ... Read Full Story