Mexican boxer and 3-weight division boxing champion, Juan Manuel Marquez, 36, is at it again telling the media that Filipino boxer/congressman, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao, is scared to fight him.
Marquez has been obsessed with facing Pacquiao after feeling he was wrongfully robbed of the decision victories in twice against the Pac-Man. Manny Pacquiao has since moved on to face bigger and stronger men at the welterweight division and is pursuing a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.. A Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight is on the top of Pacquiao’s list with a rematch against Miguel Cotto or a fight with Antonio Margarito as his Plan B option should the Mayweather fight not get made.
According to a report by Lem Satterfield the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse, Marquez still insists that Manny Pacquiao and his promoter Bob Arum fear him and that is why they won’t make a rubber-match with him.
“Bob Arum and Manny Pacquiao are scared of me. Pacquiao and Bob Arum know who won the fights. Otherwise, why won’t he fight me? He doesn’t want it. I badly want the fight with Pacquiao, but he doesn’t want it. He doesn’t want to fight with me again. That’s because everybody watching the two fights with Manny knows that I won,” Marquez said.
“The first fight, they called it a draw. In the second fight, it was a split-decision. I think that I won the two fights,” said Marquez. “I don’t know what happened with the judges with the second fight and the split-decision. Everybody watched, and everybody saw that I won the fight.”
Marquez’ promoter, Golden Boy promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, also believes that Manny Pacquiao won’t fight Juan Manuel Marquez again.
“I don’t think that Pacquiao is ever going to – or maybe Bob Arum — is ever going to want to have another piece of Marquez,” said Schaefer.
Marquez next fight will be a rematch with Juan Diaz on HBO PPV July 31 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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