LAS VEGAS ? If you ask Michael Koncz, he?ll tell you forget about dreaming of a fourth fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez because the fans won?t want to pay for another close encounter with a indecisive conclusion.
Pacquiao?s adviser said the reason why it took three years to stage the third bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena here Saturday night (yesterday morning, Manila) was because their styles almost neutralize each other. Their first meeting was in 2004 and the rematch was staged four years later.
?I don?t think fans will want to pay to watch another Pacquiao-Marquez fight,? said Koncz. ?What for? It?ll be as close as the first three fights and they?ll be debating forever on who deserved to win.
For Manny, I think it?s time to move on and find somebody else to fight.
?Honestly, we wouldn?t have taken this fight against Marquez if the money wasn?t too good,? said Koncz.
He agreed that in the third fight, several rounds could?ve gone either way but the judges will always give the benefit of the doubt to the aggressor.
?Manny pressed the action, that was clear,? he said. ?Manny was the aggressor. Marquez did exactly what he knew he?d do. He waited to counter. Against an aggressor, Marquez isn?t going to win too many close fights that way.?
Koncz declined to disclose exactly what was Pacquiao?s purse for the fight but sources said he was guaranteed a $22 million paycheck plus a share in the pay-per-view upside.
