Juan Manuel Marquez - who should he face if he doesn't win the Pacquiao sweepstakes?

[Rantcatrat]

rant,

marquez could fight all the jr. welters or welters he wants to but pacquiao will never fight him again. believe me when i say that maybe pacquiao, himself, isn't ducking marquez but arum sure as hell is. how many times does marquez have to call this clown out? after their super featherweight fight, he wanted an immediate rematch. now you tell me, why wasn't it made? marquez sure as hell wanted it, the boxing world wanted it, hell, even marquez went up to pacquiao's face and said he wanted a rematch in front of pacquiao's countrymen. but no, a humiliated pacquiao uttered unrecognizable words something to the effect of uh, um, aa, i, um hhm, oo,. he didn't know what to say to marquez! but no, what did pacquiao do? he ran up to lightweight and fought a paper ass champ in david diaz! what did marquez do after that? he went up to lightweight to fight duckquiao but duckquiao quickly went up in weight again.

listen, because of marquez' age, he can't be effective at welterweight but i think he would give anybody a hard time at jr. welter. when marquez was the champion at featherweight and super featherweight, he gave pacquiao a chance to win his titles. a real man would return the favor.

I didn't really want another pro or anti-Pacquiao thread. We have enough of those threads already. So to Marquez, Marquez is one of the biggest names in boxing. His only losses (other than a fluke) are against other future HOF's in Pacquiao, Chris John, PBF etc. He is nearing the end of his career. I wanted to see how Marquez fans thought he should end it.

As I said earlier, I like the idea of Marquez challenging SSM, Andre Berto or Tim Bradley, much more than seeing him fight Soto or another 135er. It gives him the chance of being the first Mexican fighter to win titles at 4 weight classes and as an added benefit makes his claim for a third fight with Pacquiao more credible.

For the Marquez fans - Who do you think would win between SSM and JMM at 147? Berto and JMM? Bradley and JMM?

Milmas -

It may be the case that Pacquiao would never fight JMM again, but JMM needs to test himself at 140 or 147 to really give his challenge to Pacquiao more credibility, which is where Pacquiao is now fighting. Kastidis was a fight everyone in the boxing world knew Marquez would win. He was a big favorite for a reason in that fight. Same goes for the Juan Diaz fight before it. And the same would go for a Soto fight.

It would lend a lot of legitimacy to what you are saying if Marquez beat a top guy at 140 or 147. I want to see Marquez fight the winner of the Bradley and Alexander fight. I would much prefer to see that than a Soto fight. To me, if Marquez chooses Soto or someone else at 135, basically, he is giving up his chances for a Pacquiao fight in the future.

JMM is the biggest name in boxing outside of Shane Mosley and Sergio Martinez right now. Once Pacquiao beats Shane Mosley, there really won't be anyone else with that level of notoriety for Pacquiao to fight other than Mayweather. Therefore, if Marquez challenged and beat Tim Bradley/Devon Alexander, he would be the most logical fight for Pacquiao.

I like the idea of seeing Marquez fight a different style too. He beats "come forward" fighters.