By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao will need a knockout for him to beat Floyd Mayweather Jr on May 2nd, according to Pacquiao’s old nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez. For some reason, Marquez doesn’t see Pacquiao as capable of winning a decision in Mayweather’s home city of Las Vegas, and he sees him getting the short end of the stick.
Pacquiao had the judges on his side in his first three fights against Marquez in Las Vegas. It wasn’t until Marquez decided to take the judges out of the picture completely in their fourth fight that he was able to finally get a victory over Pacquiao in 2012.
That was the fight where Marquez trained for a knockout and came in and sparked Pacquiao out cold in the 6th round with a big right hand shot. The punch left Pacquiao face down on canvas out cold.