{"id":246266,"date":"2025-11-06T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246266\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:10:07","slug":"juan-manuel-marquez-names-the-biggest-puncher-he-faced-nobody-hit-harder-than-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246266\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Manuel Marquez Names The Biggest Puncher He Faced: “Nobody Hit Harder Than Him”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juan Manuel Marquez<\/a> has revealed the hardest punching that he ever crossed paths with.<\/p>\n

Marquez captured world honours in four weight classes during his 21-year professional career, proving himself to be one of the best fighters of his entire generation along the way.<\/p>\n

The Mexican great shared the ring with a number of \u2018all-time-greats\u2019 during his tenure<\/a>, including the likes of countryman Marco Antonio Barrera and eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.<\/p>\n

Marquez and Pacquiao faced each other on four occasions within an eight year period, producing one of the most exciting rivalries of the modern era.<\/p>\n

In a round of \u2018Best I Faced\u2019 with The Ring Magazine, Marquez didn\u2019t hesitate to name Pacquiao when asked to reveal his hardest punching opponent.<\/p>\n

\u201cPacquiao. In all the fights I had, nobody hit me harder than him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first encounter between the two boxing legends, which took place in May of 2004, ended in a draw after a closely fought contest at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Filipino icon Pacquiao walked away victorious in their second and third clashes in 2008 and 2011 respectively, defeating his rival via close points decisions on both nights.<\/p>\n

Their fourth and final showdown, which was a non-title bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas once again, saw Marquez sensationally knock Pacquiao out in the sixth round, bringing their saga to an end in emphatic fashion.<\/a><\/p>\n

Marquez ended his career with a record of 56 wins, 7 defeats and 1 draw, and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Manuel Marquez has revealed the hardest punching that he ever crossed paths with. Marquez captured world honours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-246266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}