{"id":5030,"date":"2026-06-16T02:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2026-06-16T02:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:54:58","slug":"marc-marquez-one-of-the-greatest-says-acosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/marc-marquez-one-of-the-greatest-says-acosta\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez one of the greatest, says Acosta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Acosta hailed Marc Marquez as one of the greatest riders in MotoGP history, pointing to the Ducati star&#8217;s remarkable comeback from injury and adversity.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull KTM Factory Racing rider discussed Marquez during an appearance on the Gypsy Tales Podcast, where he reflected on the nine-time world champion&#8217;s return to the top of the sport.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f6P5EEz3jCk?si=rTe3dT42pm_aniVX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After suffering a series of injuries that threatened to derail his career, Marquez fought his way back to claim the 2025 MotoGP world title and secured his first victory of the 2026 season at the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he&#8217;s not the G.O.A.T., then he&#8217;s the same level as Valentino [Rossi],\u201d said Acosta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you just think about his comeback to MotoGP, winning on the second try, and how much he suffered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, what makes Marc one of the greatest is not how much he achieved, it&#8217;s how much it cost to take it back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have the crown and it goes away, normally we have to understand [it can happen when] younger riders like [Fabio] Quartararo, Pecco [Bagnaia], [Jorge] Martin come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys are talented, and you are coming back from really difficult years to take back what is yours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zw_12biERe0?si=3BsMRWeOebatrykc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Acosta hailed Marc Marquez as one of the greatest riders in MotoGP history, pointing to the Ducati star&#8217;s remarkable comeback from injury and adversity. The Red Bull KTM Factory Racing rider discussed Marquez during an appearance on the Gypsy Tales Podcast, where he reflected on the nine-time world champion&#8217;s return to the top of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/marc-marquez-one-of-the-greatest-says-acosta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marc Marquez one of the greatest, says Acosta<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[94,171],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular","category-top-stories","tag-motogp","tag-motorsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}