Al Bernstein On Boxing: A Prediction? Not On Your Life!

[Saddo]

Boxing’s excellent year of 2009 heads for a potential zenith this weekend with the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight.

Anyone who has even a passing interest in the sport should want to watch this match. The true measure of a fight is how many questions it raises when you try to analyze it. This fight has so many interesting elements that it boggles the mind.

The first is the mystique of Pacquiao. There is this almost pervasive force field around him now that suggests that he can do anything. How do you ever really believe he can lose?

He has gone up from 106 pounds at the beginning of his career to 147 to beat Oscar De La Hoya. In the legendary competition between Juan Manuel Marquez, Marco Antonio Barrera , Erik Morales and Pacquiao, Manny came out with the best record in face to face matches with these hall of famers. And along the way he has become boxing’s international superstar. Does all that mean something when he steps into the ring with Cotto?

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[Master]

I think he is going for Cotto.

[BoxingChaos]

Come on Al, make a prediction!