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Wait ... Is That Boxer Drinking His Own Urine?

Dashiell Bennett — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:45:54 EDT

Yep. He sure is. That's Juan Manuel Marquez, who apparently ends his workouts by pissing into a cup and the chug-a-lugging the whole thing. I think HBO may be taking this "24/7" thing too far.

The documentary series is following Marquez as he prepares for his showdown with Floyd Mayweather on September 19 and thanks to their intrusive, omnipresent style, viewers are finally clued into this utterly disgusting training technique. Marquez explains that a lot of vitamins in your body get expelled through urine, which is sorta true, so he figures the best way to get them back is by drinking your own piss.

Has he considered—and I'm just spit-balling here—maybe, I don't know ... taking more vitamins? (Yes, I have considered the possibility that Marquez is simply fucking with all of us [and Mayweather] but the man does get punched in the head for a living.)

The Weekend Ahead [The Queensberry Rules]
Marquez drinks his pee for fights [ABS-CBN News]

Mayweather Knows How to Upstage a Fight

KOGOD — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:25:00 EDT

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been un-retired for less than a day and he's already busy promoting his comeback fight. He'll fight Juan Manuel Marquez in July, the winner gets tonight's victor. Awesome. [MLive]

Marquez Knocks Out Casamayor In the Eleventh

KOGOD — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:30:01 EDT

Juan Manuel Marquez is the new linear champion of the lightweight division after dominating Ring Magazine champ Joel Casamayor last night in Las Vegas. Once the 35 year-old got comfortable in the ring you never would have known he was coming up in weight to challenge the division's champion. Marquez began peppering away at Casamayor halfway through the fight, and the older fighter couldn't seem to keep up with the pace.

Eventually the wear-and-tear caught up to the champ, and Marquez was able to floor him twice in the eleventh round. Referee Tony Weeks stepped in after the second knockdown to stop the fight, marking the first time Casamayor had been stopped in his Hall of Fame career. This just supports my long-held theory that an actual beard does little to protect ones chin from the assault of superior fighter.

Marquez has now positioned himself for a potential third fight with pound-for-pound champion Manny Pacquiao sometime next year.

Redemption for Forrest. Vernon Forrest won his light middleweight title back from Sergio Mora in convincing fashion with a 12-round unanimous decision. The veteran definitely made up for his previous sub-par showing that gave an undefeated Mora his first taste of a title, brief as it was.

Another win for Bradley. Timothy Bradley seemingly came out of nowhere to dethrone Junior Witter earlier this year, and he followed it up with an easy unanimous decision over Edner Cherry in Showtime's headliner (by default). The 25 year-old undefeated champion finds himself in a great position in the light welterweight division, and he could be in line for some truly exciting fights. Hatton and Malignaggi are tied up in their upcoming encounter, but other guys like Kendall Holt and Demetrius Hopkins would make for even more interesting matchups.

The Continuing Reign of Joe Calzaghe.

Unsilent Majority — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:12:51 EST

Back on Saturday night the longest tenured champion in all of boxing, Joe Calzaghe (44-0), defended power-punching Mikkel Kessler (for free) on HBO. Although the Dane proved to be one of Calzaghe's toughest opponents, he couldn't get enough going to out-point the aggressive champion. Calzaghe's reign has come in a weak division and he's hardly had to leave the UK to defend his titles, but the fact remains that he's won 21 consecutive fights as a champion. Kessler was the last of the serious competition amongst the super mids, so it looks like Bernard Hopkins is the next target. Calzaghe's promoter Frank Warren didn't waste much time before speculating on the future.

"Whatever he wants to do now, I will be right behind him. We would like to fight [Bernard] Hopkins, and he has suggested he would take the fight, so let's see if he is genuine about it or if they are just words. Joe would go and fight him in his backyard. If Hopkins wants it in Philadelphia, then that is where we would go."

I don't see any reason why this fight wouldn't happen, the only question that remains is that of the venue. As I said, Calzaghe has always forced opponents to come to him, but it's Hopkins that would make the fight a big event. Frankly, if the fight is held in Wales I don't see how Hopkins could leave with a favorable decision.

One other potential opponent could be Jermain Taylor. Once Kelly Pavlik dispatches of the over-sized middleweight he'll need somewhere to go and he'd be a great matchup for the free-wheeling Calzaghe.

In other Saturday action Juan Manuel Marquez defeated a bloodied Rocky Juarez in an action-packed clash on Showtime. It's not that often that you get to see one highly entertaining fight featuring a consensus top ten pound-for-pound champion of the world; on Saturday we had two, and neither was on Pay Per View.