MANNY PACQUIAO is not going to win his next fight by just showing up at the arena. Pacquiao is in grave danger of having his butt kicked if he decides to go on with a proposed May 8 fight with Juan Manuel ?Dinamita? Marquez, who The Ring?s editor Nigel Collins described ?is a lot fresher? than Marco Antonio Barrera and is ?extremely dangerous.?
?If Manny is not in top shape for this fight, it is going to be hard,? Collins said yesterday at the Pantalan restaurant. ?Marquez is like Barrera?he can box and he can slug.? Collins came short of saying that Pacquiao would end up getting the short end of the stick if he decides to go on with a planned May 8 bout with the Mexican jawcracker. The fight was originally scheduled for May 22, and it came as a shock when it was reported in a Michigan newspaper that the Pacquiao-Marquez bout would be moved to an earlier date. Collins said he ?doesn?t know what condition he (Pacquiao) is in right now,? and ?his handlers know better than me.?
