When I spoke with welterweight contender Mike Jones earlier this month, the welterweight contender spoke on a variety of subjects from his career steps, his thoughts on such fighters as Floyd Mayweather, Miguel Cotto and Saul Alvarez, as well as an eventual shot at WBO champion Manny Pacquiao. Jones, ranked #1 in the WBO and promoted by Top Rank Promotions, fully realizes that his time to face the Filipino may been just around the corner and even suggested he would be ready this coming November if Mexico City?s Juan Manuel Marquez failed to go through with his scheduled fight with Pacquiao.
Marquez took the fight with Pacquiao, the third in their so-far wild series, with revenge on his mind after his March 2008 split-decision loss to the General Santos City fighter but decided to take a tune up two weekends ago to ensure that he would have no rust heading into the fight. Marquez would end up securing his date with Pacquiao by blitzing 25-year old Columbian Likar Ramos in the first round down in Cancun, Mexico and will have his shot at redemption on November 12th inside of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
