Marquez vs. Diaz II was a boxing lightweight title superfight, in a rematch of the Fight of the Year.
Marquez, went to Diaz's hometown of Houston to face him at the Toyota
Center in February 2009 in what turned out to be an all-action slugfest,
one that Marquez won via ninth-round knockout.
Juan Díaz was a 3-1 underdog for his rematch against Juan Manuel
Márquez, but the Houston fighter employed unimpeachable logic to argue
that he would be victorious before the battle. In the rematch, Díaz, 26,
intended to fine tune rather than overhaul his game plan since he
dictated the action and manhandled Márquez for much of the first fight
before Márquez, 36, identified and exploited the chinks in his armour.
Without revealing too much of his strategy, Díaz said his key to victory
involved a delicate balance between brain, brawn, offense and defense.
Márquez, at 36 ten years older than his opponent, retained his WBO
and WBA lightweight titles, and won this rematch by outpunching Díaz 288
to 155 on blows which connected. Márquez broke Díaz' lip to pieces with
hard left jabs and hard overhand rights that scored, backing Díaz up
during this bout. Márquez had a swollen right eye, but it was not a
factor. The fight was a clean one. Díaz, a loser of four of his last six
bouts.
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