Pacquiao made no excuses about his 6th KO defeat to Marquez. He said Marquez deserved his victory and the boxing fans were also the winners, who witnessed one of the great fights of our time. Pacquiao went on to say he is looking forward to a nice rest but will return to the ring. He admits he go careless and got hit by a punch he didn't see. Marquez called it a perfect punch, which Pacquiao walked on to doubling it's power. Ironically Pacquiao boxed his best ever against Marquez, winning 4 of the 5 previous rounds and he would have taken the 3rd if not for the KD, and he was up in the 6th until the last second. Pacquiao, showed a lot more head and body movement early on, making Maquez missed and hesitant to throw. Pacquiao landed straight left and right hooks. Marquez could not get much success to the head, so he went to the body, and to the body again. Pacquiao dropping his guard slightly and in the 3rd Marquez lands the monster overhand right hook, with Pacquiao maybe expecting another body shot. But Pacquiao recovered well, finished the round strong, and started the 4th with even more purpose and aggression and made the adjustments not to get caught big right overhand right again. He put Marquez down in 5th, broke his nose and had him on shaky legs going back to his corner. Marquez landed some big shots as well and it was a great round. In the 6th Pacquiao jumped on Marquez again, and it looked like Marquez would not be able to take much more, I thought Pacquiao could have him out of here in the next 3 rounds. He hurt Marquez again but Marquez landed some good straight rights too, Pacquiao was winning the round, but in the last 20 seconds, Marquez landed a few jabs that Pacquiao felt he had to answer and Marquez's face was a bloody mess and was chasing the KO. You can do that with any other fighter, who will try and struggle when they are hurt, or just try and survive the round, but it is when Marquez is at his most dangerous and landed an almighty straight right, which Pacquiao walked on to, bang on the chin. Pacquiao was out cold, got a little worried after about 10 seconds, thought Marquez had kill him. Pacquiao recovered fine, got the all clear from the CT scan in the hospital later, but the fight was over and Marquez got his deserved victory over Pacquiao by the way of KO. Marquez, Pacquiao are open to a fifth bout and no doubt the fans will be as well. Great Great fight, I said it would be epic, and it didn't disappoint.
Everybody wants Manny vs FMJ. But i fear that in terms of entertainment it wouldnt be able to get close to the Manny vs JMM fights. Last nights was again brilliant!
