Manny Pacquiao: 3rd Fight with Marquez Will Enhance Pac-Man's Legacy

In Manny Pacquiao's career, there haven't been many tests, but Juan Manuel Marquez was one of them, and when Pac-Man vanquishes him for a third time, it will further his meteoric rise up the sport's historical power rankings.

Despite boxing's fall from grace in the sports world, it isn't hard to tell that Pacquiao is a special fighter that only comes around once in a lifetime. When he fights, the world watches, and only one or two men in boxing can claim that. His fights have turned into exhibitions, displays of his skill, power and grace, as he wears his opponent down into nothingness.

He's been accused of fighting inferior competition in the past, and while that may be true, the reality is that there isn't much top-tier competition for a man of Pacquiao's skill. However, Marquez is one of those men, and the two have had absolute wars in the ring, and a third fight promises to settle things once and for all.

Marquez believes he has beaten the champion in the past and plans to do it again, but the only problem is that Pacquiao is at the height of his powers and is determined to make his rival a boxing footnote when he's done. This is going to be a great fight, but it's Pacquiao's to lose and no one should expect anything less than another session at Pac-Man's School of Boxing.

When the fight is over, and Pacquiao has won another bout, all of the talk will be about a possible fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr., but hopefully not lost in the noise and speculation will be the fact that we're watching one of the greatest to ever put on a pair of gloves in his prime.  Resumes are resumes, and there are certainly plenty of them out there that dwarf Pacquiao's in the long history of boxing, but your eyes don't lie and they tell you that Pac-Man is one of the greatest in any era. 

A beaten, battered Marquez will be able to vouch for that by the end of Saturday night, and hopefully, so will we.