By Chris Williams: After four fights with Manny Pacquiao, Mexican superstar Juan Manuel Marquez (56-7-1, 40 KOs) doesn’t see the point of getting back inside the ring with the 36-year-old Filipino again.
The reason why is because Marquez feels he beat Pacquiao in all four fights, but was robbed in the first three of them before finally making up his mind that he wasn’t going to let the judges play a part in his fourth fight in 2012.
That was when Marquez knocked Pacquiao out cold in the 6th round. That was a vicious knockout that left Pacquiao face down on the canvas for close to two minutes. Pacquiao was revived and thankfully he was okay afterwards. But for Marquez, he feels like he closed out the series with that final knockout, because it was the equivalent of an exclamation point.
By Chris Williams: 40-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (55-7-1, 40 KO’s) stands to make between $13-15 million to fight Manny Pacquiao (55-5-2, 38 KO’s) on April 12th, according to Fightnews. Bob Arum of Top Rank wants Marquez as Pacquiao’s opponent for this fight date, and he doesn’t seem ready to take no for an answer.
By Chris Williams: It still burns trainer Freddie Roach that his fighter Manny Pacquiao was knocked cold by Juan Manuel Marquez almost a year ago when Pacquiao made the mistake of following Roach’s less than brilliant game plan to attack Marquez, resulting with Pacquiao getting stopped in the 6th. It was Roach’s mistake for telling Pacquiao to fight aggressively against a fighter with superior skills like Marquez.
By Jose Muradas: Yes, the title is correct, and it may happen. The fight is on the drawing board, and is being shopped around to casinos by Top Rank. It could become a certainty if both fighters win their upcoming fights. Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40KO’s) with a victory over Tim Bradley (30-0-0, 12KO’s) would then have to fight the WBO’s mandatory challenger, who would be none other than Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38KO’s).
By Ivan Ivanov: This was a climatic episode of a famed rivalry and a defining moment in Juan Manuel Marquez’s career. I’d like to focus on the knock down and KO punches thrown by Marquez because it was basically the same shot and it looked like JMM had prepared it specifically for his nemesis, a tailor made “Pacquiao special”. The move was designed individually for Manny Pacquiao taking into consideration his southpaw stance, fighting style, temper and usual reaction to attack.
By Chris Williams: Trainer Freddie Roach thinks the key to his fighter Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KO’s) getting a long awaited mega fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. (44-0, 26 KO’s) is if Pacquiao is able to get a 5th fight with Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KO’s) and knock him out.
By Gerardo Granados: After three great fights, in which the boxing fans weren’t able to agree on who was the winner, a brutal knock out put to rest all the controversy on who won the fourth but many fans keep on arguing the reasons of the unexpected outcome. Once Juan Manuel Marquez was eager to get another shot at Manny Pacquiao, but now he feels there is no sense in making a fifth fight. Is it because he is playing it safe and smart or is it he is afraid to lose if he gives Pacquiao another shot at glory so he can redeem himself.
By Miguel Alejandro Lopez: Many boxing fans in America and Europe are not aware that it was a fellow Filipino who first registered a one-punch KO loss for Manny Pacquiao. This happened in 1996, long before Pacquiao and Marquez fought for the first time. The name of the man who KO’ed the then undefeated Pacquiao was Rustico Torrecampo from the Philippines.
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz is saying that Juan Manuel Marquez turned down an offer of $13 million to face Pacquiao in a rematch on November 23rd in Macau, China. Koncz says he doesn’t understand why Marquez would turn down such a huge amount for a 5th fight with Pacquiao.