Roach: It’s now or never for Cotto-Marquez fight

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By Allan Fox: Freddie Roach says it’s time that Juan Manuel Marquez take the fight with Miguel Cotto, because they don’t have time for him to take tune-up fights to get ready for a fight. Cotto will be retiring at the end of this year. He can’t wait for Marquez. Roach says that Cotto will fight Marquez at 147 if that’s what weight he wants. He believes that Cotto can get his weight to that level if he has to make the fight happen.

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Cotto vs. Marquez negotiations going well for September

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By Dan Ambrose: James Kirkland pulling out of his February 25 fight against former four division world champion Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) has been great news for Mexican warrior Juan Manuel Marquez (57-7-1, 40 KOs), as him and Cotto are in negotiations for a fight in September on HBO pay-per-view.

Marquez will be turning 44-years-old on August 23, but his advanced age likely won’t keep the Cotto-Marquez fight from doing well on HBO PPV if the fans remember who he is. Marquez has been out of the ring for nearly 3 years, but Cotto still wants to fight him.

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Cotto: Marquez is a great fight

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By Dan Ambrose: With James Kirkland having pulled out of the February 25th fight on HBO PPV, Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) is now interested in fighting the inactive 43-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (56-7-1, 40 KOs). Cotto reportedly sees the fight against Marquez as a great fight despite the fact that the Mexican fighter hasn’t fought in three years since 2014.

You can argue that a fight against Marquez might be a good one in comparison to Cotto’s previously scheduled opponent Kirkland, but it’s still hardly a good fight. When you’re talking about fighting someone who hasn’t fought in 3 years and is now 43-years-old like Marquez, it’s not a great fight for boxing fans hoping to get good fight for their money.

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Marquez still gives Canelo the advantage over Chavez

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By Dan Ambrose: Former four division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez gives Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50-2-1, 32 KOs) a slightly better chance against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) now that he’s being trained by Nacho Beristain, but he still sees the 26-year-old Canelo as having the advantage in the fight.

Marquez feels that there’s only so much a great trainer can do for a fighter that doesn’t train constantly. Marquez sees the change that someone like Beristain making in Chavez Jr’s style as something that will take time, and they only have this training camp to get ready for the huge fight against Canelo on May 6 on HBO pay-per-view from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. There’s not enough time.

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Marquez says Canelo beating Chavez Jr. is just another victory

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By Dan Ambrose: Juan Manuel Marquez doesn’t see Saul “Canelo” Alvarez getting much from acclaim if he beats Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in their fight on May 6th on HBO PPV. The boxing fans want Canelo to fight Gennady Golovkin.

He’s considered to be the No.1 middleweight in the division. The fans have been asking Canelo to fight Golovkin for 2 years, and he’s gone in the other division in fighting the likes of Amir Khan, Liam Smith, an arguably over-the-hill Miguel Cotto and James Kirkland. Now Canelo is fighting Chavez Jr. in what is viewed as a ‘business fight’ rather than a sporting fight.

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Cotto interested in Marquez fight after Kirkland

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By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) is reportedly interested in facing 43-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (56-7-1, 40 KOs) in his next fight after he faces James Kirkland (32-2, 28 KOs) on February 25 on HBO PPV from the Ford Center at The Star, in Frisco, Texas.

This would be part of Cotto’s last fights of his career, as he plans on retiring at the end of 2017. Cotto is expected to fight Saul Canelo Alvarez in December on HBO PPV. Cotto already lost to Marquez a year a half ago in November 2015, and he hasn’t fought since that time. Marquez hasn’t fought in almost 3 years.

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Marquez says KO win over Pacquiao was “divine justice”

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By Chris Williams: Mexican warrior Juan Manuel Marquez closed the chapter in his series of fights against Manny Pacquiao by knocking him clean out in the 6th round in their fourth fight in 2012, and he’s still reveling in how sweet the victory was for him. Marquez felt that he’d been given a bad deal by the judges in the first three fights against the popular Filipino fighter, so he decided to take the judges out of the equation entirely by knocking Pacquiao out in their final fight.

Marquez wanted to remove all controversy against Pacquiao in their fourth fight by obliterating him with a right hand to the head that left Pacquiao face down on the canvas in their fight on December 8, 2012.

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Marquez wants Cotto fight at 148

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By Dan Ambrose: If 43-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez gets his way, he’ll be soon facing former four division world champion Miguel Cotto at 148 pounds. The two fighters attempted to put together a fight not long ago, but they were unable to agree on the weight. Marquez (56-7-1, 40 KOs), who started his career out at featherweight, didn’t want to move up to fight the 35-year-old Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) at a catchweight of 150lbs.

It’s unknown if Cotto is still even interested in the Marquez fight. It was thought that Cotto had moved on in looking at other options like Brandon Rios and possibly Kell Brook. Cotto would be better off if he would just fight already against a top contender at 154 rather than wasting time trying to put together fights against beatable smaller guys like Rios, Brook or Marquez. Cotto has been out of the ring for 11 months now since his 12 round decision defeat at the hands of Saul Canelo Alvarez in November 2015.

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Juan Manuel Marquez wants retirement fight

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By Chris Williams: After nearly three years out of the ring, former four division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez is talking about making a one-fight comeback for a retirement fight against an opponent still to be determined. The 43-year-old Marquez still isn’t sure whether he’ll come back or not. He wants to get some workouts in and then judge how his body responds before he makes the decision to return to boxing.

Marquez last fought in July of 2014 in beating Mike Alvarado by a 12 round decision. Marquez suffered a knee injury that has kept him out of the ring for the last two and a half years.
Marquez said to ESPN.com:
“II will not make a decision to return until my body tells me how I feel. If the body responds well, we are going to make a comeback. I have the desire to do a retirement fight. Let’s see how my bod responds when I go to the gym.”

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Marquez criticizes Golden Boy’s offer to Golovkin for Canelo fight

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By Dan Ambrose: Former four division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez sees Golden Boy Promotions recent eight-figure offer to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin to fight Golden Boy fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez as a way for them to swerve around the fight with the Kazakhstan fighter.

Marquez doesn’t see it as a serious offer from Golden Boy, as he feels that a serious offer would be for Golovkin to be given a percentage offer of 30-40 percent of the revenue rather than a flat fee of $10 million for the fight, which is only a fraction of what the fight would likely bring in on HBO pay-per-view. Marquez sees Golden Boy’s offer as a way message that says, ‘We do not want the fight.’

“They are really punishing Gennady Golovkin, because it is a way to avoid Golovkin. It’s a way of saying ‘we do not want the fight. We’re going to pay so much. Would you accept it?”
It does sound like Golden Boy’s figure offer to Golovkiin was a way for them to tell him and his promoter at K2 to get lost and forget about Canelo.

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