Fifth Pacquiao fight would be 'pointless' says Juan Manuel Marquez

Sorry Manny Pacquiao, it looks like there won't be a chance for you to get revenge on Juan Manuel Marquez.

The Mexican Marquez, last December, scored a decisive knockout win against Pacquiao in their fourth bout. He then stoked the flames of the possibility of a fifth match between the pair when he put off retirement, but was recently quoted by Reuters as saying, "It would be better to look for another kind of rival. Another rival. I'm not going to say any names. But a fifth fight [against Pacquiao] would be pointless."

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Marquez was speaking at a state worker's union in Mexico City on Wednesday (Thursday, PHL time), when he made the comments, saying prior, "We managed to defeat our rival, the Filipino Manny Pacquaio, and we managed to do [sic] win convincingly. I had said, regardless of the outcome of the fight, that I would retire. It's a very exhausting sport. It's very difficult. But the result was positive, and it was a convincing, strong knockout.

"I wouldn't want a fifth fight because we got what we wanted. We accomplished the objective we had."

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Co-promoter Bob Arum recently told ESPN's Dan Rafael that Marquez wanted to see the results of two fights, Timothy Bradley Jr. versus Ruslan Provodnikov, and Brandon Rios versus Mike Alvarado, before deciding on his next opponent.

The Reuters report added that Marquez was also eying a possible rematch against Indonesian featherweight Chris John, who defeated Marquez back in 2006.

Pacquiao and Marquez though will get a chance to talk to each other come April, as they'll both be in Macau to see Brian Viloria defend his unified WBO/WBA flyweight title versus Juan Francisco Estrada. - AMD, GMA News