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If a lucrative fight with Floyd Mayweather cannot be done, Freddie Roach has an attractive substitute in mind for Manny Pacquiao.
“Let's fight (Juan Manuel) Marquez (for the third time),” Roach told the Bulletin yesterday from Los Angeles.
Even though Marquez is coming off a loss – a lopsided unanimous decision to Mayweather – he remains a bankable foe owing to the result of his two fights with Pacquiao.
Marquez's bitter rivalry with Pacquiao stretches back to May 2004 when the two battled to a disputable 12-round split draw.
Four years later, they rekindled their rivalry with Pacquiao escaping with a 12-round split decision in a fight that left the Filipino black and blue.
Roach said fight fans are still going to be interested in seeing Pacquiao and Marquez go at it in a rubber match.
“They're going to watch it,” said Roach, who is not so cool about Pacquiao meeting Yuri Foreman.
Foreman, the reigning World Boxing Association super-welterweight king, is being lined up to face Pacquiao on March 20 at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas most especially that Mayweather seems to be reluctant in softening up in his demand for an Olympic-style drug testing.
Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum said it'll be historic if Pacquiao goes for his eighth world title against Foreman.
Roach contradicts those who view Foreman as easy pickings for Pacquiao.
“He's big, he's tall and he's rangy,” said Roach. “It's going to be tough.”
“Let's fight (Juan Manuel) Marquez (for the third time),” Roach told the Bulletin yesterday from Los Angeles.
Even though Marquez is coming off a loss – a lopsided unanimous decision to Mayweather – he remains a bankable foe owing to the result of his two fights with Pacquiao.
Marquez's bitter rivalry with Pacquiao stretches back to May 2004 when the two battled to a disputable 12-round split draw.
Four years later, they rekindled their rivalry with Pacquiao escaping with a 12-round split decision in a fight that left the Filipino black and blue.
Roach said fight fans are still going to be interested in seeing Pacquiao and Marquez go at it in a rubber match.
“They're going to watch it,” said Roach, who is not so cool about Pacquiao meeting Yuri Foreman.
Foreman, the reigning World Boxing Association super-welterweight king, is being lined up to face Pacquiao on March 20 at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas most especially that Mayweather seems to be reluctant in softening up in his demand for an Olympic-style drug testing.
Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum said it'll be historic if Pacquiao goes for his eighth world title against Foreman.
Roach contradicts those who view Foreman as easy pickings for Pacquiao.
“He's big, he's tall and he's rangy,” said Roach. “It's going to be tough.”
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