By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao, trainer Freddie Roach and promoter Bob Arum needs to forget about a 5th fight for Manny against Juan Manuel Marquez (55-7-1, 40 KO’s), because his trainer Nacho Beristain says that Marquez only wants a rematch against WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley (31-0, 12 KO’s), and other than that he plans on retiring. Marquez doesn’t want to fight Pacquiao yet again considering he already knocked him out cold last December.
The series with Pacquiao is finished as far as Marquez is concerned. Does that mean a 5th fight will never happen? Probably unless Arum and Pacquiao offers Marquez crazy money like a 50-50 split, which they’ll never do.
Beristain said this via esto “Juan has only one goal and that’s to face Timothy Bradley in a rematch. Other than that, he’s retiring. Juan has the idea of winning a 5th world title against welterweight Bradley.”
Marquez lost a 12 round split decision to Bradley last October in a fight where Marquez used the wrong tactics to try and win the fight. Instead of training to be the aggressor and knock Bradley out, Marquez fought as if he was expecting Bradley to come to him the he did in his fight with Ruslan Provodnikov. When Bradley chose to move around in circles for the entire fight, it forced Marquez to be the aggressor, but he’d already given away a lot of rounds by waiting on Bradley to come forward. Marquez will train for power in a rematch, and he’ll go after Provodnikov in the same way that Provodnikov did and force Bradley to fight a war.
Pacquiao, Arum and Roach need to move on and realize that the Marquez boat has sailed away after his beautiful knockout last December. There’s nothing more for Marquez to gain from fighting a guy that he – and many boxing fans – feel that he beat 4 times already. At some point it’s retched to see the same fight repetitively. Marquez feels he’s done his job in beating Pacquiao all those times, and he no longer has that as one of his goals.
Now if Pacquiao really wants the Marquez fight, he needs to do offer him a 50-50 deal instead of a 75-25 cut, and maybe Marquez might change his mind. If Arum sweetens the deal he got last time by another 25 percent, I think Pacquiao could get the fight that he’s longing for. But minus that, I don’t see Marquez changing his mind and fighting Pacquiao again.
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