Is Pacquiao afraid of Marquez?

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    Ever since Juan Manuel Marquez gave Manny Pacquiao a major hiding in their last fight in 2008, Marquez hasn’t been able to get Pacquiao to even consider getting back in the ring for a third fight. Now why is that? Could it be that Pacquiao doesn’t want any more from Marquez after getting beaten up, staggered and pretty well dominated in their two fights?

    After getting the fight of his life against Marquez, Pacquiao, instead of giving him a rematch and trying to prove that he’s a better fighter than him, Pacquiao instead went after the soft David Diaz, beating him. Pacquiao then fought an old over-the-hill Oscar De La Hoya, who had to melt down from 154 to fight at 147, which weakened him badly and left him with zero energy to fight.

    The last three fights of Pacquiao have come against Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto and Joshua Clottey. All of them were badly over-matched even before the fight had started. Cotto had been beaten nearly senseless by Antonio Margarito a year earlier and hadn’t shown that he was fully recovered from that beating.

    Read more: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2010/08/is-pacquiao-afraid-of-marquez/
     

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