Juan Manuel Marquez still wants Manny Pacquiao

Juan Manuel Marquez, three-division world champion and the current WBO and The Ring Lightweight Champion, lost to the eight-division world champion, Manny Pacquiao, back in 2011 in one of the most eagerly awaited fights of the year. It was the third fight between both pugilists but still the Mexican is not satisfied, as he wants to fight Pacquiao for a fourth time.

Nothing is confirmed as of yet but it seems may be the boxing fans will get to see the fourth instalment of Marquez versus Pacquiao since Marquez is still looking for it and the Filipino star will not have much options in front of him after he gets done with Timothy Bradley on June 9.

Marquez, also known as the Mexican Dinamita, will take on Serhiy Fedchenko today in Mexico City Arena in Mexico but while expressing his thoughts with the media he insisted that a rematch with Pacquiao is what he and everyone out there wants to see.

“I considered retiring because everybody knows I want to fight Manny again and that I won the last fight, and I feel very angry about that decision,” Marquez said. “Everybody knows I was looking for the rematch with Manny, but I don’t know what happened. The most important thing is, I like to fight and I will fight on [Saturday] and I am very happy about that. But I don’t know what happened with the rematch.”

Marquez’s all three fights with Pacquiao unfortunately ended up in a storm of controversy, as they were all very close and many thought that Marquez was the better fighter on the night still Pacquiao got away with all of them except the first one, which ended up in a draw.

Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum, in the meantime, was all praises for Marquez since he believes Marquez is a true professional.

“He is a professional, a true professional,” Arum said of Marquez. “He is a smart man and he knows what it’s all about, and he knows that complaining, once the judges render the decision, doesn’t change the result. So you pick yourself up and continue your career. I sort of suspect that the best is yet to come in Juan Manuel’s career.”

Short URL: https://www.newspakistan.pk/?p=19003

Posted by Imran Shaukat Khan on Apr 14 2012. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.