There will be no draw or split decision this time. Manny Pacquiao will finally land the long anticipated knockout blow against his rival Juan Manuel Marquez.
The first two fights didn't go according to plan for Pacquiao, who came away with a draw and a split decision victory.
Pacquiao wants to prove once and for all that he is the better fighter, and what better way to prove that than by knocking Marquez out?
It has been over two years since Pacquiao has knocked someone out. His last knockout came against Ricky Hatton, but he did have a TKO just months later against Miguel Ángel Cotto.
Things are different for Pacquiao now, as he has a ton to prove. A Marquez knockout has avoided him for seven years now, and this is the perfect situation for him to thrive.
Marquez is now 38 years old, and is just a shadow of what he once was at 31 years old. Pacquiao is also aging, but at 32 years old, he has plenty of tread left on his tires.
Add to the fact that Pac-Man is preparing as hard as possible for this match, and there should be no doubt in anyone's mind about who will win this bout.
Here is what Alex Ariza, Pacquiao's conditioning coach, had to say about his preparation for this bout in a conversation with the LA Times,
He wants to be as big as he was against Miguel Cotto. But Cotto was the equivalent of a linebacker, and Marquez is a free safety.
I think he just wants to kill Marquez.
Can anyone blame him? He wants to prove his doubters wrong, and he wants to finally annihilate Marquez. The two fighters have a ton of bad blood between them, especially after Marquez visited the Philippines with a shirt stating that he was robbed of a victory, and another one that claimed he beat Pacquiao twice while doing a press conference.
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