Many boxing fans, myself included, would rather see Manny Pacquiao fight anyone but Shane Mosley. No matter how hard Bob Arum tries to sell their May 7th clash, Sugar Shane doesn?t intrigue many fans, especially after he was dominated by Floyd Mayweather.
If Pacman had to fight another Mayweather leftover, we would have rather seen him take a third fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. So why didn?t the two sides get together and make this trilogy a reality?
?As far as Marquez is concerned, Marquez, you know, he had those two fights with Manny Pacquiao going for him. The two prior fights [a draw and a disputed split-decision loss] with Manny Pacquiao. But one guy has become bigger from the standpoint, physically ? and that?s Manny Pacquiao? than the other guy. The other guy is a lightweight fighter, and Manny Pacquiao has grown into a welterweight,? Arum said.
?We thought that when the dust cleared, that a third fight between them was going to be a relatively tough sell. Golden Boy, they agreed to step aside and to allow us to promote a third fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. They gave us the call on everything that we wanted. So that was not an obstacle.?
?But what was an obstacle was that they had priced themselves so high, that it was something that Manny became offended about. They were asking for more than double the money that they made when Marquez fought and lost to Floyd Mayweather. I don?t think that that was fair or that it was right, and Marquez, because of that, was a non-starter.?
There you have Boxing fans, straight from Bob Arum himself. Apparently, Marquez was demanding way too much money and our inside sources speculate that deep down he knows he can?t beat Pacquiao. Therefore he was just trying to secure as much money as possible so he could retire immediately following the beat-down Pacman would have gave him.
However, we?re still keeping our fingers crossed that a third fight will still happen in the future. We all know Mayweather will never fight Pacquiao, so it?s only a matter of time before he runs out of competition and has to start recycling through his own opponents.
