Tuesday 10 April 2012

Marquez eyes Pacquiao rematch


Juan Manuel Marquez has postponed retirement talk so that he can have another shot at beating Manny Pacquiao.

Five months ago, in Las Vegas , the 38-year-old was controversially beaten by Pacquiao on points, even though many commentators thought he had done enough to win the bout. Marquez had been a huge underdog in the boxing odds in the build-up to the clash.

Marquez has failed to beat Pacquiao in three attempts but, despite rumours that he was contemplating retirement, he is instead trying to line up a fourth fight.

Next week Marquez takes on the Ukraine's Sergey Fedchenko, who has won 30 of his 31 fights, 13 of them by a knockout, for a vacant interim junior welterweight title in Mexico City.

Marquez said in the build-up to the fight: "I considered retiring because everybody knows I want to fight Manny again, and that I won the last fight, and I feel very angry about that decision."

It is hoped that a fourth fight can be scheduled for later this year although negotiations have not as yet taken place.

Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KOs) is not the only boxer trying to fix up a fight with Pacquiao; Floyd Mayweather continues to plan for another bout against the 33-year-old.

Mayweather and Pacquiao are widely considered to be the two best pound-for-pound boxers in the world but have, so far, been unable to negotiate a deal.

Plans for a fight between Mayweather, the American who has won world titles at five weights between super-featherweight and light-middleweight, and Pacquiao, a seven-weight world champion, fell through in 2010 when Pacquiao rejected his opponent's demand for random drug-testing in the build-up to the bout.

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