Juan Manuel Marquez didn’t get the tuneup he wanted for his coming trilogy against pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao yesterday.
The WBC lightweight champion obviously picked the wrong opponent as he knocked out Colombian Likar Ramos in 47 seconds of the first round of their 10-round bout in Cancun, Mexico.
It was clear that Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KOs), assured of his biggest payday yet when he faces Pacquiao in November, wasn’t going to lose to Ramos (24-4, 18 KOs).
But nobody expected the bout to end so quickly.
Marquez said he thought Ramos would last longer but his foe simply was not tough enough to put up a spirited challenge before a boisterous pro-Marquez crowd at the Plaza De Toros in Cancun, Mexico.
"I thought it would last up to the seventh round," said the 37-year-old Marquez, who drew with Pacquiao the first time and lost to the Filipino on a split decision in the rematch.
Ramos is the same fighter who lost his title in a seventh round demolition by Jorge Solis who had also been knocked out by Pacquiao and was clearly not in the league of Marquez.
Boxing writer Scott Christ said fans watched a top five pound-for-pound fighter in Marquez against “a bad Colombian club fighter. He is truly not a good fighter and his charity interim belt at 130 pounds was a farce.”
The consensus was that Ramos decided there was no point in trying to beat the count and continue and therefore decided to take his money and go home.
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