I am one of opinion that Manny Pacquiao should not have taken a third fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. Sure, the first two fights were close enough to have gone either way. But Pacquiao deserved victories in both of those fights if only because he carried the fight to Marquez being the challenger, and punctuated them by four knockdowns.
I believed then that the business was already finished between him and Marquez and if they were ever to fight again, it should have been a ?friendly farewell? match for the Filipino boxing champion, a grudge fight before retirement for both of them maybe late next year or early in 2013.
Economics and the color of money of course dictated Sunday?s third fight between Pacquiao and Marquez.
I also thought given the progress made by Pacquiao over the last three years and the pathetic showing of Marquez against Floyd Mayweather Jr installed the Mexican a heavy underdog with nary a Chinaman?s chance.
Of course, I was dead wrong. So were many self-proclaimed boxing analysts and experts.
About the only man who was right was Marquez himself. He proved he is the perfect counterfoil to Pacquiao. He defied all odds. Hell, he even convinced a lot that he won the third of their trilogy.
