Juan Manuel Marquez could fight Lamont Peterson or David Diaz next if no Pacquiao fight
January 16th, 2012
By Chris Williams: Juan Manuel Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KO’s) is hoping he gets selected for a rematch with WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao next June, but based on the rumors that have been circulating around the boxing world it won’t be Marquez that gets the Pacquiao fight.
It goes without saying that the Peterson fight is the better fight of the two, as Diaz has lost three out of his last five fights since 2008. He hasn’t exactly been the busiest of fighters since losing to Pacquiao by a 9th round TKO in June 2008. Since then, Diaz, 35, has fought only four times, losing half of them.
In his last fight, Diaz was stopped in the 6th round by Henry Lundy last August. Diaz dropped Lundy in the 4th, but was later knocked down by Lundy in the 6th.
Marquez wants to get another shot at Pacquiao, but if the fight doesn’t happen before the end of the year he says he won’t bother trying again. I think Marquez is smart to give up on the idea of Pacquiao. I think they’ve decided he’s too dangerous after the last time and they probably will steer clear of him for the remainder of Pacquiao’s career and focus mainly on him fighting his promoter Bob Arum’s Top Rank fighters. Marquez will have to find the best options available to him. The Peterson fight would be good one but Peterson may decide to give Amir Khan a rematch after the WBA ordered an immediate rematch due to Golden Boy Promotion’ appeal.
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Pacman is every boxers dream now cuz after jmm beat him everyone now sees an opportunity to beat him. Sorry pacman fans. Time to look for new pinoy hero. Pacman is not the same anymore!
LMFAO! u ignorant fools. Just cause jmm didnt kiss d caanvvas, jmm won?
Just cause pac, lije any boxers had a bad night, jmm won?
So when floyd had bad night with castillo 1, castllo definitely won that fight.
Pacman connected more punches than Juanma, judges count the punches. A fight with Pacman is every boxer’s dream today…big PPV money…just ask Mosley, Juanma, Clottey, Cottoe, and Margarito (possibly the second richest boxer today)
Real boxing fans see it for what it really is n put their pride aside. Manny is pretty much done since hes now a avoiding the boxers he should be fighting. Plain and simple, money hungry filthy rich people just want to be more filthy! This is why boxing has taken a back seat to UFC. Boxing is the new WWE where It seems its staged now. Manny fans, be truthful to the sport and Man-up!
Marquez ruined everything for bob arum. The person who lost the most out of the PAC- Marquez fight was manny. Arum should of thought it through from all angles. If Marquez would of got the “W” they could of used the excuse that manny had an off night(and maybe the public would of ate it up) and made the rematch that could of possibly sold a record high in PPV sales. If manny won the rematch then they could of had their mega fight at the end of 2012. Instead we have arums endless excuses, and no mega fight. I will not order the “mega fight”. Instead I’ll put my money on Floyd. Marquez wooped him 3 times and mayweather will do the same. The last fighter that paquiao fought that was in his prime, or close to it before his 3rd fight with Marquez, was MARQUEZ. Enough said.
Marquez u won, they cheated u out.
Even the winner was sure that he had lost the fight.
David Diaz? lol. Junk.
@The Boxer thanks man . its the reality.
I think Marquez 3 changed everything for Arum,Roach and pacquiao.
@ Pac Kill
I agree w/ The Real Big Nose, THE MARQUEZ vs Pacman 3 fight will always be remembered as ‘THE ROBBERY” to all fans except Phillipino’s.
@Packill
I don’t think Pacquiao learned a lot about himself in that last Marquez fight. His corner expected a KO. Remember, Marquez is now 38. Instead, his dear friend Amir Khan thought he lost.
Now he doesn’t want to fight Floyd. If he can drag it out, maybe Floyd slows down after prison. Maybe Floyd takes care of Canelo and Martinez so Pacquiao never has to fight them. Maybe the fight doesn’t happen until Floyd is 38 or gets beaten — since Floyd is taking harder fights.
@Packill
I don’t think Pacquiao learned a lot about himself in that last Marquez fight. His corner expected a KO. Remember, Marquez is now 38. Instead, his dear friend Amir Khan thought he lost.
pacoward will never fight you Marquez . He will wait another 3 yrs to see if you have slowed down . Pac will be fighting bums for the next 3 yrs (unless he mans up and decides to fight Mayweather).
Who care about WHOM marquez fights next? He is going to cry again of robbery.
His brother Rafael Marquez got beat up so badly by current junior featherweight champion Nishioka and almost did not survive the 12 rounds, but the marquez brothers still CRIED of robbery after the fight. What a shame!
Yeap! Who cares about his next opponent?
No respect towards his Master Manny, No more fight with him. We don’t want to hear again and again of his cries of “robbery.”
Message for Marquez: If you lose, you congratulate your opponent for giving you free mega-million dollar lottery like Manny gives you…and then move on…
To me, Marquez is all history. Done!!!
The comments made from pacquiao fans just further prove my point on how they are ignorant to boxing..
As far as Marquez’ next opponent he should fight Peterson instead of an easy STUPID waste of time fight against Diaz.
Pacman was beat by MARQUEZ 3 times, once by Morales, and was ko’ed by a straweight boxer and Mayweather would easily beat him and Marquez would beat him a 4th time BUT PACMAN IS STAYING AS FAR AWAY FROM MARQUEZ AND MAYWEATHER AS YOU KNOW!!!!!!!
No more big money fight for dinamita, those fights won’t do PPV good only on HBO After Dark or WCB. He needs the cashcow to make retirement more affordable. He can’t up his demand to fight Pacquiao there is no one else to fight for big money.
It didn’t matter about the knock down he won on points I think people are hanging on to pacquio mania he is a gd fighter but not the best and everybody before the Marquez fight would of perdictetd paqcuio to dominate jmm which he couldn’t so PAC fans are dropping in excuses see how disgusted PAC man looked after the fight with his head held down jmm was robbed if it was the other way you would of said PAcquio landed the cleaner shots and was wrkin the body nd jmm was jus throwing a flurry of punches that hardly hit his opponent !!!thts why arum was so keen at first to give him a rematch cause he knew jmm won really did you see pac man wife praying which fight have you ever seen tht done ? Bs bs bs
Stay as far away from DC as possible!
PAC fears Marquez.. Plain and simple.
May hasnt loss yet but if he did to pacquiao, i see all kinds of excuses, one of them would be “i got a lot of things in my mind, like going to jail after this fight”. Bank on it. Floyd is not the one to accept a loss to a midget coz that will be humiliating.
Marquez should fight Amir Khan.
Marquez is beginning to be like mayweather, an excuse for every loss.
MARQUEZ SHOULD FIGHT BRANDON RIOS AT 140 or robert guerrero he could also fight timothy bradley
What does marquez has to do kill pac and still judges give him a draw
@ chop chop i bet u if they ever meet again its going to be above 147 cuz manny only looks for advantages marquez beat him at least 2 times everyone knows it
Show the respect to judges.
Marquez lost 3 times to Manny. Actually, first meeting was won by Manny. One judge made mistake and later he admitted he has made mistake.
Marquez is never danger to Manny. He is only counter puncher and exactly Manny fight him with best strategy for counter puncher in Trilogy. Important thing is Manny does not hurt apart from cut by accidental headbutt by Marquez. Marquez fans did not know how Marquez face was swollen because they didn’t see Manny hit on Marquez. Manny hands are fast and strong. Next time, they have to watch slow motion.
Counter punching boring??????? Wow paquiao fans
No way would arum allow marquez fight bradley an opponent he could loose to it will make paquiao look worse and mega fight would be all but over. If hmm looses
True we have all seen those four knockdown that Pacman did to him and his counter punching ability is a boring game and will not get him a fight or rematch again….
No way would arum allow marquez fight bradley an opponent he could loose to it will make paquiao look worse and mega fight would be all but over.
Marquez has proved to pacquiao time and time again the he is the superior boxer..pacman fans don’t know nothing about the sport of boxing they just follow the only recognizable person that has ever came from that country and now they think they’re experts.
-jmm shud convince promoters not to do only counter-punching ‘coz it wud b d same thing again. any other fighter, he may miss d multi-million usd pay.
Who cares.
@ A boxing observer;
I agree bro!!! Never ever he score a knock down against Pacquiao on their fight and it will not happen at all.
Marquez isn’t dangerous. Its true that Marquez gave Pacman a challenge, but he hasn’t scored a knock down on Pacquiao.