By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao thinks he’s got a remedy to Juan Manuel Marquez’s complaining about being jobbed in his three prior fights with him. Pacquiao says all Marquez has to do is come out on Saturday night and brawl with him and then they can find out who the better man is without controversy.

Pacquiao said to RingTV “If he’ll [Marquez] fight toe-to-toe, and exchange punches. I think that he needs to do that because he’s been claiming he won the fight…and you just back off, back off, it’s not good for the people…it’s contradictory to his claiming he won the fight.”

A couple of things here. I don’t think Pacquiao has a clear memory of the three times he fought Marquez, because if you look at all three fights you’ll notice that the guy backing off much of the time is Pacquiao, not Marquez. Pacquiao used his in and out attacks in all three fights, and that’s not exactly someone that’s standing and going toe-to-toe.

Pacquiao always used the hit and move style against Marquez, so it’s like Pacquiao is reinventing history by saying it was Marquez that backed off. If Pacquiao hadn’t used his old hit and move away style in those three fights then maybe there wouldn’t be any controversy, but he always backed out after landing shots and that enabled Marquez to hit him while he always pulling away.

The other thing is Marquez actually listens to Pacquiao’s advice I think it’ll be bad for Pacquiao because Marquez is stronger than him now, and Pacquiao doesn’t appear capable of fighting hard for more than 20 seconds of every round. Does Pacquiao really want a stronger guy like Marquez staying close to him and countering his head off for three minutes of every round? If Marquez fights like that then I predict that he’ll knock Pacquiao out with a body shot. He’ll hit him and hurt him, and Pacquiao won’t be able to escape the round like he did when he was hurt by a body shot from Antonio Margarito in 2010.