Will Juan Manuel Marquez need to KO Manny Pacquiao to win?

After two great fights between these brave lion kings, the fight judges decision didn’t please boxing fans around the world, some believe Marquez won and others think Pacquiao won. Perhaps it won’t be necessary to score this one at home but it would be interesting to see the fans results in case the fight does goes to the distance.

After been knocked down three times in the very first round Juan Manuel Marquez came from behind in the scorecards to draw against Manny Pacquiao. It is true that one fight judge did not score the first round properly so technically Marquez should have lost their first bout. The first fight was a great battle with both fighters trading punches in a close combat, if Pacquiao have not floored Marquez in the first round he might have lost the fight on the score cards, but he jump on Marquez early and the effort of Marquez was not enough to convince the fight judges to award him the victory.

Pacquiao vs Marquez III: The Case for Another Great Fight

(Lee Payton takes a look at the November 12 trilogy fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez, and expects another top fight between the two rivals.)

When Manny Pacquiao steps into the ring to fight Juan Manuel Marquez he is expected to put an end to perhaps his greatest rivalry with a dominant performance and that strikes me as a bit unfair to the fighters considering the history between these two all-time warriors.

Is this really based on style and skill? How much is based on things that may not mean a whole lot in a roped off square?

It seems to me that if there was room for separation between these two, we would have seen it over 24 rounds. I'm sure that if you gathered every scorecard in the world, totaled them up and averaged it out, you'd get a draw. Judges in training should have to score those fights as their final exam. I came up with two draws (113-113 and 114-114).

Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez: Why Pacquiao Must Win by Knockout

After losing to Manny Pacquiao in May 2008 via a split decision, Juan Manuel Marquez has waged a relentless media campaign to condition the minds of the public into believing he was a victim of injustice stemming from flawed officiating.

Marquez has claimed and is still claiming after almost seven years that he won both the 2004 and 2008 fights against pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao. He said he was robbed of his victories due to flawed officiating.

In their first encounter in 2004, the fight ended in a draw and in 2008, he lost to Pacquiao via a split decision. In both fights he said he was the clear winner but was cheated in the scoreboard..

The long chase which included a distant and tiring trip to the Philippines to beg Pacquiao for his proposed trilogy, ended late last month when Pacquiao finally gave in to Marquez' request for a third fight to settle the issue for the last time.

Despite the chance given him by Pacquiao to prove his allegations, the Mexican counter puncher still takes shots at the Filipino ring icon, claiming and shouting to the world he beat Pacquiao twice.