Four years after their featherweight championship bout resulted in a split draw, Manny “Pacman” and Juan Manuel Marquez finally meet again tonight in Vegas for the junior lightweight belt. It’s sure to be another exciting matchup (I don’t know if it could possibly top their first fight). Pacquiao fights are almost guaranteed worth the price of the PPV, but you can usually find a live stream on the net too. I’ll be tuning in to this one.
These fighters have met two previous times, with the first ending in a controversial draw and the second ending in a controversial win for Pacquiao.
In both fights, Marquez showed that his style of fighting matched perfectly with Pacquiao’s, and if it wasn’t for a few knockdowns, Marquez might have won both fights.
Some fight enthusiasts, including me, see Marquez as the perfect kryptonite to Pacquiao’s superman because he has shown in the past that Marquez can match up physically and mentally with Pacman.
While Pacquiao has been making the rounds beating up the seniors of the welterweight division (Shane Mosley), Marquez defeated Juan Diaz twice, Michael Katsidis and Joel Casamayor, and he looks to tame the Pacman beast.
With the first two fights being as exciting as they were, the general hope is that this third bout will go down in history as one of the great final fights in one of the best trilogies in boxing history. A must See Trilogies .
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