Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez is one champion on a long list of combatants, to decide to call time on their careers and hang up their gloves in 2017.
‘Dinamita’s famous series of bouts came against the Filipino 8-weight world champion, Manny Pacquiao as they fought four memorable encounters inside a six-year timeframe between 2004 and 2012.
Their memorable first fight ended as a draw after ‘The Pacman’ fell the Mexican three times with heavy knockdowns in the fight’s opening stanza.
Marquez, however, recovered and seized control of the bout down the stretch as he executed a wonderful counter-punching gameplan.
The following two bouts, were controversial, to say the least. Pacquiao edged a split decision in their second fight and also Pacquiao secured a majority decision verdict in their rubber match.
Both of those fights are recollected as encounters that could have easily swung in Marquez’s favour.
Marquez also scored one of the greatest one-punch knockouts in recent memory when he eradicated Pacquiao and caused him to fall face-first on the canvas as the sixth round of that bout headed towards the bell.
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“There was an offer for a fifth fight against Pacquiao in the Philippines for 100 million pesos, and I refused in order to keep my honour and the glory of the fourth fight from 2012,” said Marquez in an interview with ESPN Deportes.
“It’s a lot of money – but honour, pride and what we did is more important than doing a fifth fight.
“Let’s pretend that the fifth fight would happen.”
“How about if I get robbed in the fight, we do not know what can happen. He’s capable of hitting me with the right shot and hurting me badly.”
“So I would place myself at risk. The glory and what we did in 2012 is worth more than that amount they were offering,” Marquez concluded.
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