Juan Manuel Marquez: Manny Pacquiao 'Doesn't Want it' -- FanHouse

By Lem Satterfield, FanHouse

If WBO and WBA lightweight (135 pounds) king Juan Manuel Marquez successfully defends his crowns against Juan Diaz on July 31, he could face mandatory challenger, Michael Katsidis, of Australia, or try to become the first Mexican to earn a fourth crown in as many different weight classes by taking on WBA junior welterweight (140 pounds) champion Amir Khan.

First, the 36-year-old Marquez (50-5-1, 37 knockouts), of Anaheim, Calif., has a rematch with Diaz, whom he knocked out in the ninth round in February of 2009 in the Fight of the Year. Khan (23-1, 17 KOs) will be watching at ringside when Marquez takes on Diaz.

Meanwhile, the 29-year-old Katsidis (27-2, 22 KOs) is a WBO interim champion who is coming off of last month's third-round knockout over England's previously unbeaten Kevin Mitchell (31-1, 23 KOs).

"If Juan Diaz should win, then that would be again, a Fight of the Year candidate, and then there could be a third fight between Diaz and Marquez. So that a trilogy would make the most sense for those two guys in my opinion. If Marquez would win, then the question would be for him that he would have several options," said Schaefer.

"One of them would be to go after a title in a fourth weight class, and to be the first Mexican to do so," said Schaefer. "Another would be to try and fight Amir Khan. If he decides that he decides that he's going to stay at 135, then, obviously, the mandatory would be against Michael Katsidis, who, by the way, will be sitting at ringside on July 31 as well."

One match up that Schaefer all-but rules out for Marquez is a third bout with seven-division titlist, Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs), owner of the WBO welterweight (147 pound) belt.

Marquez has battled Pacquiao to a draw, and, lost to on a disputed, split-decision, respectively, in May of 2004, and, March of 2008.

"For those of you media members who were there when Pacquiao and Marquez fought the last time in Vegas, where we all felt that Marquez should have gotten the decision, I pushed for the rematch and I was told, 'well, it's not right, the timing is not right.' I can assure you that the timing is never going to be right," said Schaefer.

"I don't think that Pacquiao is ever going to - or maybe [Pacquiao's promoter] Bob Arum -- is ever going to want to have another piece of Marquez," said Schaefer. "Because, even though I'm not a boxing expert, I have learned one thing: Styles make fights, and somebody might have somebody's number, and Marquez has Pacquiao's number. That's why I think that fight is never going to happen again."

But Marquez still is chasing that elusive third bout with Pacquiao.

"Bob Arum and Pacquiao are scared of me. Pacquiao and Bob Arum know who won the fights. Otherwise, why don't he fight me? He doesn't want it. I badly want the fight with Pacquiao, but he doesn't want it. He doesn't want to fight with me again. That's because everybody watching the two fights with Manny knows that I won," Marquez has told FanHouse.

"The first fight, they called it a draw. In the second fight, it was a split-decision. I think that I won the two fights," said Marquez. "I don't know what happened with the judges with the second fight and the split-decision. Everybody watched, and everybody saw that I won the fight."

Source: boxing.fanhouse.com