By Chris Williams: Once again, Manny Pacquiao will be facing an old lion when he faces 38-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez in his next fight on November 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. For Pacquiao, this will be his second consecutive fight facing someone in their late 30s in what appears to be another mismatch on paper.

Pacquiao’s last fight against 39-year-old Shane Mosley was a bad mismatch going into the fight and it turned out to be even worse than many boxing fans had expected it to be. The fight still did well on pay per view, bringing in 1.3 million buys thanks to the name of Mosley and also due to the marketing of the fight on CBS/Showtime with the Fight Camp 360 Pacquiao-Mosley fight episodes.

Now it looks like we’re in store for another mismatch, but this time with Marquez. Forget the other two fights that Pacquiao and Marquez had in the past, because those fights took place when Marquez was still young and fighting at featherweight and super featherweight, two of Marquez’s best weights. Now he’s being asked to move all the way up to welterweight to fight Pacquiao at a 144 pound catchweight instead of facing him at 140 or 137.

Marquez probably won’t be able to put the weight on without slowing way down and getting easily beaten by Pacquiao. But the age factor alone is going to be enough of a problem now for Marquez to lose this fight. Sure, you can give Marquez a puncher’s chance but he’s not really a puncher, so he doesn’t really have much of a chance in that department either. This is a mismatch and I’m not going to be buying it. I’ll wait until Pacquiao faces someone that has a chance to beat him like Sergio Martinez and Floyd Mayweather Jr. before I put money into seeing Pacquiao fight.