For the fourth time, Fighter of the Decade Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao and four-division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez will meet in the ring. The two will fight at the MGM Grand Arena on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 9 p.m. on HBO pay-per-view.
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You can watch the Pay-Per-View ($59.95 for standard definition; $69.95 for high definition) or check out the live stream at TopRank.com.
Records
Pacquiao (54-4-2, 38 KOs) and Marquez (54-6-1, 39 KOs) will fight in a in a 12-round welterweight match.
The fight will mark the end of a eight-year long rivalry between the two and Marquez said he wants the referee to ultimately raise his hand in the ring.
Pacquiao has won two of the three meetings, and in 2004, the fight ended in a draw.
Marquez
"People tell me, 'You really beat him,' in the last three fights; a lot of people feel I beat him," Marquez said. "But I want to have my hand raised. I want the judges to really look at what they're doing and get it right this time."
ESPN's Dan Rafael said all three previous fights were extremely close and could have gone either way and he thinks this time Marquez finally gets a decision.
"I think the people [will] remember me for this fourth fight for my career," Marquez told ESPN.com. "It's important to me because the people will know Juan Manuel Marquez always."
Pacquiao
Pacquiao said this fourth fight with Márquez means a lot to me.
"It means the chance to author the final chapter of a marvelous story and to look forward to writing a new chapter in my ring life," Pacquiao said. "Juan Manuel and I have battled each other at three different weight classes and always at important points in our careers. There is a certain feeling of destiny in our rivalry. It was meant to be that we would fight each other four times."
Marquez and Pacquiao said despite what happens in the ring on Saturday, this will be their last fight with each other.
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