In a way, you couldn't have blamed Juan Manuel Marquez if he'd said to hell with it and walked away from this business after his loss to Chris John in Indonesia in March 2006.
Already 33 years old and a hair slower on the trigger than he'd been a year or two before, he was maybe the best illustration since Jersey Joe Walcott of a good prizefighter who couldn't keep from banging his head against the glass ceiling.
At the whim of the attendant sanctioning body, Marquez had taken the fight for a relative pittance -- about $30,000 -- hardly enough to cover training expenses and airline tickets.
This, after his trainer, the wonderful and legendary Nacho Beristain, tried his hand at managing and steered Marquez away from a $750,000 rematch with Manny Pacquiao.Read Full Article ...
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