THE MARQUEZ PUZZLE (PART II)
By Maloney L. Samaco
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 19 Sep 2012
"I think I won all of the last three fights," Marquez said. "I would like the referee to raise my hand. Everybody knows I won the fights, and I don't know what happened with the judges. I have to take it out of the judges' hands this time." Thus declared Juan Manuel Marquez during the launching of the Pacquiao-Marquez IV fight.
The Mexican Dynamite believed he was robbed of victory in all the three Pacman encounters. The riddle persists as the Pacquiao-Marquez saga continues. Marquez may not be the best Mexican fighter of all time. But at present many considers him the best in Mexico today. He is the only Mexican pugilist included in The Ring top ten pound-for-pound list at number six. He ranks higher than the Ukrainian Klitschko brothers Wladimir (No. 7) and Vitali (No. 9), American Timothy Bradley (No. 8) and Panamian WBA bantamweight champion Anselmo Moreno (No.10).
On top of him are Filipino Manny Pacquiao and American Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (tied at no. 2), American Andre Ward (No. 3), Argentinean Sergio Martinez (No. 4), and Filipino Flash Nonito Donaire (No. 5).
Marquez worked hard for his third fight with Pacquiao. "We're training as if it were my debut, as if this were my first professional fight," he said. "We're training that hard." The result was very impressive with the Mexican, listed by MGM sportsbook as a 9-1 underdog, losing only by a controversial majority decision. Many fans were expecting a big knockout win by Pacquiao but Marquez disappointed them.
The most bizarre regimen Marquez underwent in body conditioning was drinking his own urine. ?This is something I have been doing for the past six or seven fights, and it has given me good results. That's why I have continued doing it. This is done through a doctor.? He said the doctor checked himself up and ordered a month-long body cleansing to expel all the toxins.
?Drinking urine is done in the morning and at night and I do it only during training, in order to feel right,? Marquez further explained. ?It's a technique that comes from many centuries ago. Many people used to do it, like in ancient Egypt, and it always yields good results. It's like a natural medicine, and it's free, because your body gives it to you.?
Every time Marquez drank his urine he said, ?It is as if I was taking vitamins, but the kind of vitamins that give me more power and more strength than the ones that you can buy at a pharmacy. If you drink or inject yourself with vitamins, you release them every time you go to the bathroom. Why not put them back in your body orally??
But before the last fight with Pacquiao, Marquez revealed he stopped the weird practice. "On the advice of my doctor and my physical trainer Angel (Hernandez), they told us we should stop," Marquez said. "We're looking for what can help me, and if the doctor says no longer drinking it will help, then we'll stop."
Hernandez, a graduate of Texas A&M University, indicated he had applied several state-of-the-art training techniques during the last Pacquiao fight. "There's a lot of things he's never done, and today he's doing a lot of different things, a lot of different strategies, and he's responding positively to it," Hernandez said.
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