Junior welterweight titlist Juan Manuel Marquez recently had the chance to review his Dec. 8 victory over Manny Pacquiao, the fourth meeting in their series and the 2012 ESPN.com fight of the year, on the ESPN Deportes boxing show "Golpe a Golpe."

Marquez, who co-hosts the program with Jorge Eduardo Sanchez, analyzed his spectacular victory round by round.

"Being able to live this great moment was unforgettable to me," Marquez said, "and doing it again feels like going back in time.

"Seeing it again and, for example, seeing and listening to Michael Buffer introduce the fight makes me feel like I was back there. This is something so memorable for me, something unforgettable, and analyzing it away from the ring is going to be important to me, to see the things we did correctly and incorrectly in this fight."

Sanchez: We saw you concentrating on the softer areas in this round, aiming at Pacquiao's midsection, going aggressively upstairs as well. The judges gave the round to Pacquiao.

Marquez: Yes, it was a round of study. Pacquiao said he was going to look for a knockout. What I did was to go in and measure him, to see what he wanted to do. In certain moments, I also exchanged some punches -- like you said, hitting the softer spots, using my waist movement and connecting with speed. But the most important thing in that first round was seeing what Manny Pacquiao was bringing with him.

Sanchez: And what did Manny Pacquiao bring?

Marquez: Pacquiao had a lot of speed; he came in aggressively, too. At certain points, he seemed to want to bring the fight to me. We hit him with right-hand counterpunches. I wanted to see the aggressiveness Manny Pacquiao had promised and what I would need to do in the following rounds.

Round 2

Sanchez: Second round to Manny Pacquiao. Speed, precise punches -- some of them at the jaw -- but he took the round according to the judges.

Marquez: The second round was difficult, and he did connect with some punches -- just as I hit him. Manny was throwing his left hand. When I threw a jab, he seized the opportunity to sneak in with his left, and he connected well. There was even a left hand in there that connected on the way in. He was doing things right, I was waiting for him to explode, to be able to use my counterpunching, to use combinations with speed. I was trying to hit the softer areas in order to dominate, and logically also trying to hit him upstairs, using mixed combinations in order to get to Manny Pacquiao's face.

Juan Manuel Marquez says he dropped Manny Pacquiao in the third round of their fourth battle by doubling up on the right hook upstairs, taking advantage of Pacquiao's expectation of a body shot. John Gurzinski/AFP/Getty Images

Round 3

Sanchez: This is a clear frame in your favor. A 10-8 card evened the score, from the officials' point of view. Tell us about the right hand that dropped Pacquiao, Juan Manuel. We had been talking about it here on several episodes of "Golpe a Golpe." You've being throwing that punch [against Pacquiao] since 2004 [in your first fight], and ever since then you've been connecting with it -- with the only difference being that this time you sent him to the canvas.

Marquez: A big difference. We practiced that punch; we had practiced it since 2004, like you said. We started in those first two rounds hitting the softer spots with the right hand, connecting to the body. I knew Pacquiao understood that my hook downstairs was a key for me and that I would want to throw it. It worked because the punch came after a fake; I faked it upstairs, and right then I sent the hook back upstairs, where it was a dry punch, and this one was well connected between the jaw and the cheek. We capitalized on what we did in the first two rounds going low, using the fake move to connect the hook with the right hand.

Sanchez: Manny Pacquiao got up, but you didn't go after him for the finish. Why did you make that decision?

Marquez: Because just by looking for the KO, looking to connect on a lucky punch, I could have ended up knocked out myself. Why? Because of the hunger to score a KO. And maybe because of that, Manny Pacquiao would have become more dangerous when he was hurt. He can throw punches from all sides, even without the right angle, and he may connect with a few bombs -- so typical of Manny Pacquiao.

Sanchez: Why wasn't Pacquiao able to stop that punch if you've been throwing it since 2004?

Marquez: I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight. We knew how to work on that. The punch from 2004 was the same, but it was a little bit longer; it didn't have the same power, the same forcefulness. Now, in 2008 I connected against him with the same type of punches, but he managed to cover against those. In the third fight, we did it again, but not with the same power. We didn't work in the same way as we did [in the fourth fight], with power and speed. And this time it was a precise punch, a punch we had been working on during our training camp, and we used that fake move to connect with that punch.