Blame Nacho Beristain for Marquez Lost!

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Ignacio Beristain and Juan Manuel Marquez
Juan Manuel Marquez (L) get advice from his trainer Ignacio "Nacho" Beristain between rounds. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images

On Saturday we witness a third controversial bout between the WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KOs) and three-division world champion Juan Manuel Márquez (53-6-1, 39 KOs). Pacquiao won a close twelve round majority decision with both fighters having their moments just like in the first two.

Like many of you including myself, I predicted Pacquiao to knock Marquez out but Marquez proved everyone wrong. Marquez being a huge 9-1 underdog executed a brilliant game plan to box the Philippine icon from his unusual brawling style.

Marquez counter punched beautifully, frustrating Pacquiao and landed good hard flurries throughout the fight until his Hall of Fame trainer Nacho Beristain kept telling Marquez was up on the score cards, asking Marquez to basically play defense which is the wrong thing to say to a fighter who needed a knock out to secure his win considering his last two fights were left on the hands of the judges.

Pacquiao continued to be the aggressor throughout the fight and bled heavily after an unintentional head butt caused a cut over his right eye in the tenth round.

Just like Oscar De La Hoya who was confident he was winning against Tito Trinada, Marquez lost when the scores were announced.

Manny Pacquiao v Juan Manuel Marquez
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In the end, Pacquiao won on two scorecards while the third ringside judge had it a draw. This third fight did less to close the book and instead added another chapter. The Pacquiao-Marquez trilogy now stands at 2-0-1 for the congress man.

“I thought I won this fight more clearly than the other two fights. I don’t know what else I can do,” Marquez said after the fight. “Honestly, the result of the fight has made me consider retirement. I worked very hard and ended up with this.”

The sellout crowd at the MGM Grand arena booed loudly and threw water bottles towards the ring after the decision was announced and though Pacquiao won, he wasn’t confident about his win either as his face told a different story but at the end, a win is a win.

At 38-years-old, Marquez has accomplished just about everything he could as a fighter but something he did that no one else could do was to expose the blue print to beating today’s #1 pound for pound fighter in the world.

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11 COMMENTS

  1. Marquez got Pacquiao with the eyes of a camera but that was it but Pacquaio out box Marquez by scorecard.

  2. watching the fight, to me, it seems that both fighters where playing it safe, not wanting to jump right in… its funny how each fighter states that they like and want to fight toe-to-toe, but that was clearly not the case in last saturday’s fight…. what’s next for fighting… may be backyard fights in the south… LOL…

  3. what ever the case may be…. u’ll have pacman fans and el matador fans… each hates one another. racial comments or other wise. did marquez cheat may be yes may be no. true that feet may be stepped on on once, twice, thrice… but 17 times…. may be an immature boxer, but pro boxers should know better. anyways…. im pretty sure there are allot who will disagree with me weather or not you are mexican or filipino…. race, race, race… that’s what it comes down to or will… why not talk strait boxing and leave mexican/filipino out… but still…. it won’t happen… pretty sure there will be some individual who will comment about my comment… bring it.

  4. it was very clear that the pacman throws more and landed numerous job to the mexican warrior,..marquez fail to knockdown the filipino icon and yet he is claiming he dominate the score cards,.well its true he hit pacman with hard punches but not majority of the rounds,.looking back for there 1st encounter,..pacquiao knock him down three(3) times but still the judges verdict is DRAW…and why marquez keep on insisting he won!!!!..he should score a series of knockdown to support his selfish claim …what i really see was the earlier rounds,marquez dominates. . but fail to maintain it at the last three rounds…too much defensive make him lost

  5. Its embarrassing for someone like yourself to believe what Jim Lampley was selling. In no way did marquez lay off. He was the aggressor in the 11th and in the 12th neither was able to connect. If you know anything about these fighters you would have known there was no way it was ending in a KO. Marquez the superior boxer imposed his will and skills and left pacquiao busted tired and desperate. Any time Paquiao landed a punch marquez countered with a combination of cleaner punches.

  6. @Jesus A,

    If you’re saying that Pacquiao “sells tickets and PPV buys no matter who he fights”, then how do you explanin Pacquiao vs. Clottey? Horrible fight, and nobody bought PPV for that fight. Pacman needed Marquez to sell the fight, just like Marquez needed Pacquiao.

  7. Marquez is a true champion, I not only thought he’d lose the fight but would lose it badly. I too did not care for Beristain’s advice to Marquez as they both know Marquez would have to look spectacular every round or knock Pacquiao out. My honest opinion was this fight was a draw, but my opinion doesn’t count and the judges saw Pacquiao winning can’t call it a real bad decision as a case can be made either fighter won. Hopefully Marquez does not retire and defends his belts.

  8. Manny looked frustrated and showed his not good when it comes to boxing. his good at brawling but not boxing. which I think that’s how Floyd Mayweather will beat him, that’s if, if they ever fight.

  9. I don’t blame Beristain. I figure Marquez is not the future of HBO boxing. Pacquiao sells tickets and PPV buys no matter who he fights. That in itself is suspicious to me. Anyway Marquez proved a lot of people wrong and keeps his lightweight titles. He fought like a true warrior. He is still the peoples champion.

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