Juan Marquez: Burns still interim lightweight owner, no authenticity in related buzz – Boxing news
World’s number six pound-for-pound pugilist Juan Manuel Marquez again caught media’s attention, but this time not because of a controversy.
It was reported recently that Marquez has decided to forfeit his gold to move up in the division and become a welterweight.
Boxing fans all over the world were rattled and confused by this news, especially Marquez fans particularly in his home country became furious on the tiding that their beloved Dinamita has been stripped off his WBO lightweight championship title.
Juan Manuel Marquez is the man who has won three world titles in three different divisions and such news was definitely shocking to the 38-year-old who has a record of fighting a total of 60 bouts. Juan’s immediate reaction was nothing, but he commented
that he is contacting WBO President Francisco Valcarcel in order to confirm the buzz and to know his own current status.
The issue initially started when Juan, whose last opponent was Manny Pacquiao, decided that there’s no worthy opponent left in the division, and therefore will move up to the welterweight division and will fight in the near future for 140-pound.
The news was not taken that much seriously and it was just considered as his aspirations. However, later on, out of nowhere the news that Ricky Burns is the new WBO lightweight champion and of Juan Manuel since the latter has decided to move up the division
popped up.
Ricky Burns is the current interim WBO lightweight champion and he grasped the gold from Aussie Michael Katsidis in a unanimous decision in his favour after a 12-round bout. No corroborative evidence is available up until now as to how and why such news
came in the media.
Manuel, on the other hand, after his conversation with Francisco has remarked that the WBO super world champion gold will continue to be round his waist and that he is also in good spirit to take back the WBA lightweight ‘super’ champion, the title which
was stripped off him earlier this month.
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