Barrera comments on Marquez

marquez4523By Mark Havey: When Juan Manuel Marquez landed the bomb that knocked out the long reigning Pound 4 Pound king Manny Pacquiao, the world seemed in shock. The two men had been rivals for so long and had faced each other 3 times. Each time Marquez closely fell short of getting his hand raised. But whilst some were shocked, others were suspicious way before the bell rang.

Boxers, MMA fighters and fans have since come out to say that the skills and physique of Marquez were unfeasible. His coach has also raised eye brows as a well known steroid pusher. Marco Antonio Barrera is one of those people. He has fought and lost to both Marquez and Pacquiao. Philboxing.com quoted him saying “when Marquez dropped Pacquiao I said it’s terrible because he (Marquez) has no good punch. When he dropped Pacquiao in the 3rd round I said what happened?”

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Barrera to resume his career; wife gives him permission to continue

barrera2762By Chris Williams: Former three division world champion Marco Antonio Barrera (67-7, 44 KO’s) says his wife has given him permission to resume his boxing career after two years out of the ring.

Barrera, 39, hasn’t faced a quality opponent since he was beaten by Amir Khan four years ago in a fight that he lost by a 5th round technical decision due to a cut on his forehead produced by a head-butt.

Barrera said to the Sports.inquirer.net “My wife has given her permission for two more fights, provided they’re against top notch opponents.”

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Barrera: Pacquiao isn’t a fading fighter; Marquez got lucky

pac006By Chris Williams: Marco Antonio Barrera isn’t giving fellow Mexican fighter Juan Manuel Marquez too much credit for having knocked Manny Pacquiao out cold in their fight last December, and nor is Barrera giving Marquez credit for having dominated Pacquiao in their three previous fights before that.

Visiting the Philippines to watch a fight this weekend, Barrera said to the sports.inquirer.net “I don’t believe he [Pacquiao] is doing down [fading]. It just happened that he got caught by a lucky punch. One more round and it would have been the other way around. Pacquiao won the first three, and Marquez won the last and that’s it.”

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Barrera questions where Marquez got his power for his last Pacquiao fight

marquez124By Chris Williams: Marco Antonio Barrera says he was surprised by Juan Manuel Marquez’s sudden emergence of power for his last fight against Manny Pacquiao last December in which Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KO’s) knocked Pacquiao out in the 6th round.

Barrera, who is in the Philippines this weekend to watch Moises Fuentes in his fight against Donnie Nietes said to sunstar.com.ph “Marquez doesn’t have power. I don’t know what happened. Everybody can see the difference of the Marquez today and the Marquez of the past. Maybe he has a very good doctor.”

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Barrera: Pacquiao shouldn’t fight Marquez again

pac89By Chris Williams: Boxing great Marco Antonio Barrera doesn’t see the point in Manny Pacquiao choosing to fight Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KO’s) a fifth time. Barrera, who lost to Pacquiao twice in his career and considers him a friend, says he would rather Pacquiao move on and fight someone else.

Barrera said this as quoted by sunstar.com.ph “To me, personally, why make a fifth fight? Manny should think about his career if he should continue or not. He is a very good person.”

Yes, it would be a pity if Pacquiao fought Marquez again and possibly got hurt. It looks like Barrera is concerned with Pacquiao getting hurt by Marquez judging by his comments. He really cares about his health, and no doubt he saw what other boxing fans saw in that Pacquiao reacted slowly to right hands thrown at him by Marquez.

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