By Chris Williams: Nacho Beristain, the trainer for Juan Manuel Marquez, feels that he’s clearly won all three fights with the Freddie Roach trained fighter Manny Pacquiao and he feels really proud about that as they head for a fourth fight between Pacquiao and Roach. Beristain feels that Marquez has been jobbed in all three Las Vegas fights and he’s wary now that they’re about to meet again.
Beristain said “I’m really proud to have beaten him [Roach], because I believe we won all three fights. A lot of Filipinos told me they felt Marquez won. Again we feel the bitter realization that the judges didn’t give us justice. The result of that fight [the third Pacquiao-Marquez fight] was shameful. In the history of boxing it will always be shameful.”
I hope Beristain has trained Marquez well to be looking for a knockout because it may take that for him to get a win over the much more popular Pacquiao. He’s the big money guy in boxing in terms of pay per view, and as we’ve seen in Marquez’s three previous fights with Pacquiao it’s incredibly difficult for him to be beaten by a decision.
Roach seems to be coming at the fourth fight between Marquez and Pacquiao from a different angle, feeling like Pacquiao is the one that needs the knockout in order to win, not Marquez. That just doesn’t make sense because Pacquiao is the one that’s been getting all the controversial decisions as well as getting a draw in a fight where a lot of boxing fans thought he lost the last 11 rounds of the fight with Marquez back in 2004.
Roach said “Who’s going to give Manny Pacquiao a fourth fight if it’s a close call? I don’t think we’ll win this fight unless we knock him out.”
Roach went on to say that he thought Pacquiao won all three fights with Marquez. It’s unclear why Roach’s opinion differs from the boxing public at large because they pretty much saw Pacquiao losing all three of them.
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