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Nacho Beristain says that his fighter Juan Manuel Marquez received an offer from Manny Pacquiao’s promotional team Top Rank, but says it was a “miserable deal,” one that he didn’t want to take. He pointed out that it wasn’t an official offer, but he wasn’t willing to accept it for a third fight between Pacquiao and Marquez. The two fighters have fought twice with the first fight ending in a 12 round draw and the second resulting in a narrow 12 round split decision win for Pacquiao in 2008.The money for a fight between WBO lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis and Marquez isn’t there apparently. Beristain says that Marquez isn’t ducking Katsidis, but the fight “doesn’t make sense” because Marquez typically “charges $1.5 million to $2 million to fight” and they’re talking only “$1 million” for a fight against Katsidis. As for a fight between Amir Khan and Marquez, Beristain says he declined that fight because Marquez isn’t a light welterweight. Beristain would like to match Marquez against Ricky Hatton, but doesn’t see it happening. But he says he would take the fight for Marquez at light welterweight. However, it would depend on Hatton being able to make the light welterweight limit, which is unknown at this point because he’s put on a lot of weight in the year that he’s been out of the ring.
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