Juan Manuel Marquez badly wants a third fight with Manny Pacquiao ? anytime, anywhere, any price.
The 34-year-old Mexican who flew thousands of miles just to get here, yesterday said he deserves a rematch because until now he believes that he won his March 15 battle with Pacquiao in Las Vegas.
?I know it and you know it, I won that fight. Give me a rematch,? said Marquez when he came face to face with Pacquiao at ringside of the ?Invasion? card at the Araneta Coliseum.
Pacquiao was caught by surprise, and said, ?I got lucky.?
Later on, Marquez reiterated his challenge.
?I?m ready. Anytime. Anywhere. I think he?s ready, too. And I?m willing to make the concessions again. Manny should give me the rematch because I won the fight. He said no problem. Then I asked him if he wants September or October there was no answer,? said Marquez.
Asked if he feels that Pacquiao is scared of him, Marquez said yes.
?Yes, I think so. I think he?s scared of me. I respect him but I don?t know if he wants to give me a rematch. The people know it, everybody knows it, he knows it. I won that fight,? he added.
?Anytime I?m ready. Marquez wants it either September or October. If I?ll have my way I?ll fight him first. He made me wait four years for the rematch. But I won?t make him wait that long. It will depend on the promoters,? Pacquiao said.
For the meantime, Pacquiao said he?s getting ready for David Diaz, and that training should start the first week of May in Los Angeles.
Marquez said he can wait for a third fight with Pacquiao who is set to climb a division higher and challenge Diaz, the WBC lightweight champion, on June 28 in Las Vegas.
Marquez said he can fight other fighters while he waits for Pacquiao. He has mentioned the names of Joel Casamayor and Marco Antonio Barrera are possible opponents.
He said it doesn?t matter if he?s turning 35 on Aug. 23, actually more than five years older that Pacquiao.
?I can wait one or two years. No problem. I will wait for him ? even when I?m forty. But that?s unless he?s afraid of me. I will make the concessions. But I will try to knock him out because the judges there I don?t know what they were watching,? he said.
Marquez said he can fight Pacquiao even here in Manila, where the Mexican counter-puncher received a warm welcome the minute he stepped out of his plane yesterday morning.
?The people here are very nice. It?s my first time here and I feel very happy. I fought Manny twice and I feel I won two times. So I thought the people here will not like me. But they were very nice. I can fight here. If Pacquiao wants to fight here, I will fight here,? he added.
Marquez, like Erik Morales, might do a commercial, too. Negotiations are on, and the Mexican champion is only waiting for the right word, the right amount to get it done ?for a beer company.?
? If it pays good then we?ll do it,? he said. ? With report from Rudy Santos
