By Chris Williams: Former HBO analyst Larry Merchant doesn’t think it’s over for Filipino Manny Pacquiao (55-5-2, 38 KO’s) despite him having lost his last two fights with one of them being a vicious knockout to Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KO’s). Merchant thinks that Pacquiao should get right back in the ring with Marquez, and if he can beat him, then move forward with his career to take on the other top fighters at welterweight and light welterweight.
Merchant said to esnewsreporting.com “I think Pacquiao is capable of coming back. Manny Pacquiao has to fight Marquez again first…if he comes back and looks good in that fight, then it will relight that fire, and there are a bunch of good 140/147-pounders out there.”
By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is still hoping to make a deal for a fifth fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao in September of this year despite Marquez saying repeatedly that he’s cool to the idea of fighting Pacquiao yet again. 
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao feels that 39-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KO’s) should agree to fight him since Pacquiao gave him a chance recently to fight again in their fourth fight last December after having beaten him by a controversial decision the previous year. 
By Chris Williams: By now Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has probably heard the news that 39-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KO’s) is saying that he has no interested in facing Arum’s stable fighter Manny Pacquiao for a fifth fight in September or ever. 
By Chris Williams: Undefeated welterweight contender Keith Thurman (19-0, 18 KO’s) says he sees Manny Pacquiao as a flawed fighter, and he wasn’t surprised when Juan Manuel Marquez knocked him out last year in December in the 6th round. Thurman wishes that Floyd Mayweather Jr. had defeated Pacquiao before a couple of years ago in order to stop all the Pacquiao mania that came about.
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao will be making his comeback in September against one of Bob Arum’s Top Rank fighters. There’s still no word about who that fighter will be, but Arum is trying hard to make sure that Pacquiao’s recent conqueror Juan Manuel Marquez. 
By Chris Williams: Bob Arum of Top Rank may need to look at another opponent for Manny Pacquiao’s next fight in September because Juan Manuel Marquez’s promoter Fernando Beltran says he has other options for Marquez to fight next besides Pacquiao.
By Chris Williams: Marco Antonio Barrera isn’t giving fellow Mexican fighter Juan Manuel Marquez too much credit for having knocked Manny Pacquiao out cold in their fight last December, and nor is Barrera giving Marquez credit for having dominated Pacquiao in their three previous fights before that. 
By Chris Williams: Marco Antonio Barrera says he was surprised by Juan Manuel Marquez’s sudden emergence of power for his last fight against Manny Pacquiao last December in which Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KO’s) knocked Pacquiao out in the 6th round.
By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum refuses to believe for a second that he can’t make a fifth mega fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez for September this year. Arum doesn’t believe that Marquez will say no to the fight when he meets with him over dinner this Tuesday to talk numbers with him to get him on board for the fifth fight.