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Marco Antonio Barrera’s brain trust ended up being right. Despite the fact that most insiders felt that Barrera was making a mistake granting the young and talented Juarez a rematch instead of taking a fight against somebody seemingly less threatening, Marco’s management team and Golden Boy Promotions took the calculated risk and now the tentatively scheduled super fight with Manny Pacquiao is bigger than ever.
Barrera could have fought a softy, but he wanted to erase all doubt surrounding his razor thin controversial victory over Rocky Juarez in May and in doing so he showed again why he is one of the three or four greatest fighters in Mexican history. If Barrera would have waited around for the Pacquiao fight, the match still would have been seen as a big name big money match up, but the general public would have doubted Barrera and fans would have thought, “If Barrera can’t decisively beat Rocky Juarez then how is he going to beat the Pac-Man?”
Before the first Juarez match, most experts didn’t give Barrera a chance against Manny in the rematch and scoffed at his reasons for losing and rationalized that Pacquiao beat Barrera because he hits harder and has faster hands. This past weekend the world saw that there are two Marco Antonio Barreras and that the one who wasn’t focused for Juarez the first time is a vastly different fighter than the one who gave Juarez a boxing lesson this past weekend. [details]
Barrera could have fought a softy, but he wanted to erase all doubt surrounding his razor thin controversial victory over Rocky Juarez in May and in doing so he showed again why he is one of the three or four greatest fighters in Mexican history. If Barrera would have waited around for the Pacquiao fight, the match still would have been seen as a big name big money match up, but the general public would have doubted Barrera and fans would have thought, “If Barrera can’t decisively beat Rocky Juarez then how is he going to beat the Pac-Man?”
Before the first Juarez match, most experts didn’t give Barrera a chance against Manny in the rematch and scoffed at his reasons for losing and rationalized that Pacquiao beat Barrera because he hits harder and has faster hands. This past weekend the world saw that there are two Marco Antonio Barreras and that the one who wasn’t focused for Juarez the first time is a vastly different fighter than the one who gave Juarez a boxing lesson this past weekend. [details]
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