By Jason Kim: For boxing fans that were hoping that Manny Pacquiao would choose to fight a rematch with Juan Manuel Marquez in the near future, they’re going to have forget about that, at least for now. According to Globalnation.inquierer.net, Pacquiao’s lawyer Jeng Gacal, said “He’s [Marquez] out of the picture at the moment.” If Pacquiao does ever fight Marquez again, it will be over 140. Gacal says “Manny will find it hard to trim down to 140 now.” Marquez fought over 140 in his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. last year in September, and looked slow and bloated at that weight.

Pacquiao will be fighting Antonio Margarito on November 13th, possibly in the United States if Margarito can get one of the States to give him back his boxing license. If Pacquiao can get by Margarito, he’ll either be fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr. early next year or WBA light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto. It’ll probably end up being Cotto, because it’s highly unlikely that Bob Arum, Pacquiao’s promoter, will be able to put together a fight with Mayweather.

After Pacquiao fights Cotto or Mayweather, Arum will probably match Pacquiao up with another fighter in his Top Rank stable, someone like Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Marquez just doesn’t seem to fit anywhere among those fighters, so he’s going to have to look in another direction, starting with WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan. Marquez has fought Pacquiao twice in the past, fighting to a 12 round draw in 2004, and then losing a razor thin 12 round split decision in 2008.

Pacquiao has since moved up in weight three separate times since Marquez last fought him and is now fighting at welterweight. Pacquiao will be moving up in weight to fight Antonio Margarito at a catch weight of 150 pounds for the vacant World Boxing Council junior middleweight title on November 13th. If Pacquiao is successful in winning the title, it’s doubtful he’ll ever choose to defend the title, other than fighting Cotto in a unification fight.

Had Sergio Martinez, the previous WBC junior middleweight title, not given up his title, it’s highly unlikely that Pacquiao would have been matched against him. Martinez is too tall and too elusive and likely would have beaten Pacquiao. However, with Martinez choosing to hold onto his WBC middleweight title rather than the WBC junior middleweight crown, it gives Pacquiao a chance to fight for the vacant WBC title against fellow stable-mate Margarito.

The odd thing about this fight is that Pacquiao has never fought at junior middleweight and Margarito has fought only once at that weight during his career, yet the two of them were allowed to leap frog over the other top junior middleweight contenders and fight for the vacant title. It’s very strange.