By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum thinks it’s admirable that 38-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez chose not to complain or show signs of being bitter after Marquez was beaten by Arum’s fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao by a HIGHLY questionable 12 round decision last November. Arum thinks it’s great that Marquez kept quiet about the defeat.

Arum said “He [Marquez] knows that complaining, once the judges render the decision, doesn’t change the result. So you pick yourself up and continue your carer.”

In theory, complaining helps get a rematch unless you get a champion that doesn’t want any part of fighting a tough opponent again, and instead moves in another direction to milk a title rather than face a guy that could have or should have received the decision. There’s nothing wrong with complaining if that’s all you got.

In this case, it appears that Arum is going to give Marquez another chance at fighting Pacquiao later on this year, but only after Marquez beats Sergiy Liakhovich for the WBO interim light welterweight title and then possibly faces one of Arum’s stable fighters former WBA World lightweight champion Brandon Rios on July 14th at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

The Rios fight isn’t nailed down yet, but it looks as if Marquez may take that fight. Is that fight a condition to get a fourth fight with Pacquiao? It’s unclear, but you’d like to think that Marquez doesn’t have to earn his way to a rematch with Pacquiao by fighting one of Arum’s stable fighters to give him a name. It would be interesting to see if Marquez could still get a fight with Pacquiao even if he says no to the Rios fight. The Rios is very, very, very winnable for Marquez, as Rios isn’t in Pacquiao’s class and obviously isn’t in the same class as Marquez and probably never will be. But it would be sad to see that Marquez has to jump through a series of hoops in order to get a rematch with Pacquiao.

A Rios-Marquez fight could make Rios a bigger name, and it also could backfire the same way it did when Arum put one of his stable fighters Joshua Clottey in with Pacquiao. Clottey fought poorly and you could make an argument that he came out of that fight less popular than he was coming in. The same can happen with Rios. He takes a beating from Marquez, and it doesn’t how much publicity get receives in fighting Marquez, he’ll come out looking bad if he gets beaten up.