2013 a do or die year for Manny Pacquiao

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    Manny Pacquiao has had a fine career and you have to give a lot of credit for his promoter Bob Arum by mostly putting him into fights that were winnable ones for him until recently. However, Arum’s excellent match-making is no longer working for Pacquiao, as he’s now losing repeatedly.

    Arum doesn’t seem interested in taking Pacquiao backwards towards softer opposition to get him back on the magic formula that had him winning over and over again from 2005 to 2011. Juan Manuel Marquez, who should probably already have four wins over Pacquiao, decided he’d had enough of the poor judging each time he fights the Filipino, and instead took the judges out of the equation by knocking Pacquiao completely out in their fourth fight on December 8th.

    Pacquiao now is a situation going into 2013 where he’s lost his last two fights and he’s now in the position where he’s got to start winning otherwise his career will likely be over by the end of 2013.

    Pacquiao can’t beat again, and it’s looking like that’s what’s going to happen because his promoter Bob Arum wants to match him up against Marquez for a fifth fight. It’s still unclear when that fight will take place. If Arum puts Pacquiao in with Marquez in June, we’ll likely see him twice in 2013. If not, then Pacquiao will only have one fight next year in September.

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