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Looking ahead isn’t part of these fighters’ plans

It’s impossible to look past or dismiss a two-belt world champion, yet Juan Manuel Marquez can be forgiven if he feels slighted even as his fight with Manny Pacquiao is at hand.

Marquez and Pacquiao fight Saturday at the MGM but throughout Thursday’s final prefight press conference there was an overwhelming tendency to jump ahead. Even the co-promoters for the fight, Bob Arum and Murad Muhammad, have their future plans pertaining to Marquez and Pacquiao in order.

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