The trilogy ends not with a bang but a whimper – if you’re rooting for Pacquiao to finish Marquez, who never gained more fans after foul-mouthing the judges decision since day one after their first fight. Before the bout, Pacquiao could have easily ignored him and his exploits in the ring still couldn’t been tainted for the lack of the 3rd fight. Pacquiao vs Marquez III could never come into reality had the 8th world title holder ignored him once and for all.
But for some reason where a close decision result would hurt Pacquiao more than that of his opponent, the fight came into reality on November 11, 2011. And Marquez with nothing to lose knowing the fact that most people would just think Pacquiao would just streamroll him and put him into sleep in a matter or seconds.
JMM has slowed over the years but the facts that had been ignored is that technical fighters seldom ages easily. Take for instance Bernard Hopkins who amazingly still campaigning while nearing his 50th birthday. No, there seems not great wonders about technical boxers has their hand and foot speed are not really their bread and butter, but their ability to feignt, read and counter attack their opponents.
To many people, Pacquiao lost the third bout and with heavy artillery of arguments to back them up. Their viewpoints from the camera angles in whatever video fed provided had showed JMM had the better punches although the obvious still remain – Pacquiao landed more punches. The telling blows seems to be favouring Marquez and that’s why the people who thought JMM won has much reasonable data to rely on their arguments.
Do we really need to settle for the 4th bout?
At this point no. Why would we keep on asking for about that already has been answered many times over in the past?
Both combatants have shown enough of what they can offer in the ring and there is no point of fighting who has the better end as they are great already in their own.