Felix wrote: is mark a big match fighter? perhaps. is paris a big match then? no. he's doesn't face elimination yet. is mark a five round fighter? not really but luckily neither is jerome. sorry lollo, this doesn't look like it is in marks favor. if anything is going to increase 300% it is his weight.

Felix, I didn't say Mark is favorite. I just said that there will be more pressure on Jerome. Sometimes pressure helps certain fighters and sometimes it doesn't. Jerome hasn't proved himself to be a good fighter under pressure so far. Mark has proved it 3 times in a row that he is a big match fighter. After he won the Oceania the first time, he wasn't dubbed as the favourite the next year but he won it easily. Than he went on to Japan and the rest is history.

However, before I didn't but now I'm convinced that Jerome can fight from the distance. I can see Jerome throws light fast jabs or combos than step back and draws Mark in, and hopefully intercept him with his famous right hook, short left combo. Why I think he might do that? Because during the past whenever he wanted to have a grudge match with Hoost, he always rushes in and got himself KOed again!! Why was he doing that? Is it because he wanted to badly KO a fighter who knocked him out in the past? No...because he knows that Hoost hasn't got the best chin in the game, beside that's the only way he's gonna beat Hoost as he is too clever. Jerome knows that Mark has one of the best chin in the business and he's not very explosive to a long distance due to his weight. I didn't mean to sound negative and I do hope that I'm wrong when I said it's going to be a boring fight, if Jerome decides to fight from the distance. Or worse, we could see a puncher tries to win the bout with kicks.

Felix comments on: "overnight stardom syndrom? that must be where all your friends convince you that as long as you are happy you can gain as much weight as you want. even on this board people said that his obesity was part of the winning combination."

Felix, I just wanna get out of the weight thing as it will cause this thread to go over and over the same weight thing (AGAIN!!!). Still, I didn't say that he is favourite to win against Jerome. What I can say is, he will be more focus and fitter than his last two outings. (Fat or lean!!)

Felix, I'm surprised the man of your caliber forget one common weapon which every champion fighter has. EGOS!!! In saying that, I don't think Jerome would deliberately threw the bout to Yasuda, just to fight Mark earlier? I give the man more credit than that. Mark doesn't need to be a rocket sciencetist to realise now that the party is over after losing to Crocop. It made sense that he didn't learn much from Nakasako's bout as he was still partying but still end up won the bout by KO.

This will be the first time Mark fights in Europe and I believe that Mark will be training very hard for this fight. As Lucy said, he has 10 weeks to train for it as well as soul searching. I just want to close by saying that I think both Mark and Jerome will be heavily pressured. If so, this will be going to Mark's favour in the ring. Why? because, if anything to go by their past performanced, Mark handles pressure better than Jerome can.