{"id":5520,"date":"2009-09-11T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/boxing-betting-mayweather-ready-to-ruin-marquez\/"},"modified":"2009-09-11T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T21:01:00","slug":"boxing-betting-mayweather-ready-to-ruin-marquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/boxing-betting-mayweather-ready-to-ruin-marquez\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Betting &#8211; Mayweather Ready To Ruin Marquez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\" title=\"online betting\">online betting<\/a> community is curious to see how the Floyd &#8220;Pretty Boy&#8221; <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span> versus Juan <span class=SpellE>Maneul<\/span> Marquez fight plays out on a number of levels. On one hand, there is the fight itself and the return of <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span> from retirement. On the other hand, there is the fact that boxing will for the first time go head-to-head with <span class=SpellE>UFC<\/span> as <span class=SpellE>UFC<\/span> 103, <span class=SpellE>Belfort<\/span>-Franklin on the same day (September 19<sup>th<\/sup>). <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>There has been some friction between the two sports this year and even though most people betting in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sportsbook\/\" title=\"offshore sportsbook\">offshore sportsbook<\/a>&nbsp;will find a way to watch both fights, it&#8217;s a really big statement to see which one wins out. For boxing, <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span> Jr. is arguably their biggest draw and when you compare it to the <span class=SpellE>UFC<\/span> card, there really is much to compare with. Rich Franklin is a so-so fighter while <span class=SpellE>Vitor<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Belfort<\/span> is back in the <span class=SpellE>UFC<\/span> after fighting in other leagues over the last couple of years. It isn&#8217;t exactly Brock <span class=SpellE>Lesnar<\/span> versus Frank Mir. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For boxing, they can&#8217;t lose this fight &#8211; pun intended. Not a single <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesportsbetting.org\/\" title=\"sports betting blog\">sports betting <span class=SpellE>blog<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;would pick <span class=SpellE>UFC<\/span> to have the higher ratings and if it did, it would be a huge upset. It would also signal that boxing is truly on the decline.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Just as badly as boxing can&#8217;t lose this fight in the ratings, they can&#8217;t have their superstar, &#8220;Money&#8221; <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span> lose this fight in the ring either. Don&#8217;t get it twisted: while Marquez is a good <span class=SpellE>figther<\/span>, he&#8217;s not the reason people are buying pay-per-views next weekend. This fight will truly be about <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span> and beyond that, it will be a precursor for <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span>-Manny <span class=SpellE>Pacquiao<\/span> in early 2010.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=SpellE><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mayweather<\/span><\/font><\/span> has a few advantages in this fight, including size, which isn&#8217;t typically something that&#8217;s on his side. <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span> is still lightning fast and is still untouchable, but he will also have a better chance to hurt Marquez because he is the bigger fighter. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettingsystem.us\" title=\"Sports betting system\">Sports betting system<\/a> picks all have <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span> listed and the sportsbooks have set up a huge line in favor of <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span>, which obviously gives the impression that they don&#8217;t believe Marquez can win. It should be a very interesting fight on September 19<sup>th<\/sup> between <span class=SpellE>Mayweather<\/span> and Marquez, and between boxing and <span class=SpellE>UFC<\/span>. Make sure you tune in.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online betting community is curious to see how the Floyd &#8220;Pretty Boy&#8221; Mayweather versus Juan Maneul Marquez fight plays out on a number of levels. On one hand, there is the fight itself and the return of Mayweather from retirement. On the other hand, there is the fact that boxing will for the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/boxing-betting-mayweather-ready-to-ruin-marquez\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boxing Betting &#8211; Mayweather Ready To Ruin Marquez<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}