Glenn McCrory says Juan Manuel Marquez's clash with Juan Diaz is the perfect way to end the boxing season.
Can the 'Baby Bull' come out on top this time?
It's been an absolutely fantastic season of boxing, and we'll be going out with a bang on Sky Sports!
One of Mexico's greatest ever boxers, Juan Manuel Marquez, is set to meet Juan Diaz in a rematch of the fight of 2009, and I cannot wait.
Diaz appeared to have the beating of Marquez last time out but, somewhere along the way, the old warrior mustered up the strength to surprise the 'Baby Bull', who suffered a painful lesson.
At 26, Diaz is still young enough to be learning the game, so it's a question of what he's learnt from their last encounter. He will still be hurting from that defeat and his pride would have been stung, but he won't be the only man inside that ring with something to prove.
With most rematches you can usually predict the outcome quite easily because you've already seen the fight. Generally it's going to be similar if not a bit easier for whoever won the first contest, but it's different with this one because Marquez is also coming off a really bad loss.
He was totally and utterly outclassed by Floyd Mayweather Jr, and that would have really damaged his pride. Regardless of how good a fighter Mayweather is, to lose in the fashion that he did would really have humbled him.
There's every chance he's not going to be the same Marquez we know and we may have just seen the best of the Mexican. But knowing the person that he is, I don't think that will be the case.
Fight
They say it's not the man in the fight, but the fight in the man and Juan Manuel Marquez, like his brother Rafael, has got so much fight in him.
I spent some time with the brothers and their dad last year in Mexico City and I saw how hard they and all Mexican fighters train.
There were 17 and 18-year-olds in their gym who were fighting men. That's why the top Mexican fighters are legends, because they've come up the tough way and have really had to earn their stripes.
I watched the Marquez brothers sparring, and it's like war! Sparring sessions in these gyms are incredible and better than some main events! So to survive that school of hard knocks you have to be tough.
Defy
Marquez is 36 years old now, but the boxers who can defy the age gap are the ones who have lived the life, the ones who haven't partied and the ones who have looked after their bodies, and he falls into all those categories.
He's a true professional and he would have prepared in exactly the right manner for this fight, so I don't think this will be an easy fight for Diaz.
Normal reasoning would be to say that the rematch will go the same way as the first fight, in the favour of Marquez, but there is one big thing going against him, that defeat to Mayweather.
I think it will come down to how determined Juan Diaz is. If he believes in himself and believes that he can really win this time, I think he can do it.
There aren't many returns that live up to the original, and it's going to be hard to live up to that first fight, but because of what is at stake, their ages, and the fact that both of them have seen their pride take a battering recently - I think this could be a classic.
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