By Klaas Mabetlela: Following his devastating knockout loss to Juan Marquez, Manny Pacquiao gave his customary response when asked about his future. He said it is up to his promoter to decide what is next and there lies the rub. This time Manny needs to make a deeply personal choice about his career, he needs to do what is best for Manny Pacquiao.
Uncle Bob Arum salivated on a rematch and even went as far as mentioning the six times that Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta fought. What disturbed me was that Arum did not even mention anything about the health of his cash-cow who has just spent over a minute probably closest to death he has ever been . Just a second after consoling the crying wife of Pacquiao, Arum was back in a business mode. He should have showed more personal touch under the circumstances.
By Dan Ambrose: Manny Pacquiao lost to a stronger fighter in Juan Manuel Marquez by a 6th round knockout that shocked the boxing world last Saturday night. Marquez, with his new body that his strength and conditioning coach Angel Hernandez helped build, was able to hurt Pacquiao with nearly every shot and knock him down twice in the fight.
By Eric Thomas: Trainer Freddie Roach was taken by surprise by his fighter Manny Pacquiao’s knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez last Saturday night. Roach for some reason thought the fight was in the bag and he felt that Pacquiao was on the verge of scoring a knockout in the 6th when he got clipped by a right hand. Marquez was bleeding from a cut on the bridge of his nose, which appeared to be broken.
By Jason Kim: Manny Pacquiao fought really well for the first two rounds last night against Juan Manuel Marquez, and had he stayed at that pace he’d be the WBO’s “Champion of the Decade” instead of Marquez. Pacquiao out-landed Marquez by almost a two to one margin with 94 landed compared to Marquez’s 54, which showed clearly that Pacquiao was well in control of the fight.
By Chris Williams: One of the things that trainer Freddie Roach and his fighter Manny Pacquiao weren’t expecting last Saturday night was the extra power that Juan Manuel Marquez was punching with. Roach didn’t realize ahead of time that Marquez had not only developed more muscles through weight lifting, he had also developed more power on his shots.
By Mark Calooke: 5 time trainer of the year, Freddie Roach has long been regarded as the best trainer in the world. His gym is world famous and boxers from different counties travel miles to spent their camps there. If you think of all of the champions Roach has had its clear that he has been a huge success. But as a coach he is far from perfect.
By Mark Calooke: This weekend the great Manny Pacquiao was beaten by his long time and long suffering rival, Juan Manuel Marquez. All it took was 6 rounds and the hopes and dreams of a entire nation were sprawled out just like Manny Pacquiao.
By Allan Fox: Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KO’s) captured the WBO “Fighter of the Decade” title with a brilliant 6th round knockout of Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KO’s) last night in front of over 16,000 fans at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Marquez later said he knew Pacquiao was going to come out aggressive looking for a KO in this fight because he’d been talking about wanting to do that for weeks now.
By Chris Williams: Last night’s knockout of Manny Pacquiao by Juan Manuel Marquez drove the final nail in the coffin of a possible mega fight between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. The fight, if it were to still happen, won’t be the mega fight that could have been now.