Pacquiao not too happy with Marquez
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Shanghai Daily, October 27, 2011
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Manny Pacquiao works out as trainer Freddie Roach looks on at the Wild Card Boxing Club in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. |
Manny Pacquiao never takes his fights personally. But not this time - not in his third fight with Juan Manuel Marquez.
Pacquiao's trainers are sensing an unsettling edge in the Filipino congressman, who started an all-out training regimen with pre-dawn runs and lengthy gym workouts before the fight was even announced.
"I'm not upset, but I get excited because he's claiming that he won the fights," Pacquiao said.
"That's why I train hard, because I want to end this, all the doubts. This is our last fight."
Pacquiao admits he's insulted by Marquez's boastful insistence that he won their first two fights, which ended in a draw in 2004 and a split decision for Pacquiao in 2008.
Marquez even traveled to the Philippines to plead his case to the public, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with: "We Were Robbed."
In truth, both bouts were dazzling displays of style and heart, with Pacquiao's aggression and toughness matching Marquez's counterpunching and combinations for 24 fascinating rounds.
Pacquiao knocked down Marquez three times in the first round of the first fight, and he floored Marquez once in the rematch, but Marquez rallied both times to even the bouts, doing more damage to Pacquiao than any opponent in the past decade.
"It seems personal to him because he talks too much, and he needs to prove it," said Pacquiao, who will meet Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas on November 12.
"He talks a lot, and it's not good for a fighter to talk a lot without action.
"Me, I don't talk a lot. I just do some action."
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