By Chris Williams: Strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza says that former World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will be facing 38-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (54-6-1, 39 KO’s) in a fourth fight in November rather than facing WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley immediately in a rematch, according to the Manila Standard.

The rematch with Marquez may be getting pushed ahead of the Bradley rematch, because the fight didn’t sell out at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, with a reported 3000 seats that went unsold for the Pacquiao-Bradley fight. In addition to that, there’s talk that the fight did underwhelming pay-per-view numbers, which were slightly better than the PPV numbers for the Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey fight in 2010. Clottey, like Bradley, was also a Top Rank stable fighter, and the decision to match Pacquiao again him was poor one in hindsight.

If Pacquiao gets past Marquez, Pacquiao will then fight Bradley again, unless Floyd Mayweather Jr. shows interest in fighting Pacquiao first.

Ariza said to the Manilla Standard “How can you go to Mayweather and ask him for a 50-50 revenue split. They did nothing to protect Manny.”

Marquez lost a questionable decision to Pacquiao last November in a fight where he seemed to dominate the Filipino fighter, but had to settle for a loss. The most logical fight after that bout was a rematch between the two fighters, as the fight did excellent PPV numbers. However, Pacquiao preferred to go in another direction, hence the fight with Bradley.

Obviously, that wasn’t a good idea because the Marquez fight would have made a lot more money. Someone needed to speak up and tell Pacquiao what time it is, because the Bradley fight was a bad one for Pacquiao, because Bradley’s boxing skills were too good for the aging Filipino fighter to deal with, especially in the later rounds of the fight.

Marquez is a bad choice for Pacquiao because he knows how to defeat him too, and he’ll only dominate him again and put the judges in the position where they’ll have to decide to with the more popular fighter [Pacquiao] or the guy that appeared to win [Marquez].