Quote Originally Posted by JazMerkin View Post
Quote Originally Posted by :::PSL::: View Post
The Pac camp against Cotto is 2x worst IMHO. But that's up to you guys if wanna buy the hype/drama.
Exactly. I seem to remember this similar stuff being fed to us all the way back to the Hatton fight. Basically, every fight where Pac has started as the sometimes overwhelming favourite (Hatton, Cotto, Clottey & Margarito), he's been having a terrible training camp with too many distractions, too much basketball & fractious camp. I will love it when he batters Margarito from pillar to post.

I fully expect any camp against Mayweather to be spoken of publically like the De La Hoya one, one of complete and utter focus and determination.
I agree, if it was against Mayweather, then all the distractons etc, wouldn't even be a factor, he's be focused 100 percent. Why? that's how they'd hype the fight, and because the "distractions unfocused" hype wouldn't work in a Mayweather fight, with the way its hyped how badly he wants to fight mayweather no one would buy that pacquiao would be "taking days off" im preperation. It's all about how they want to hype the fight.

These 24/7 episodes etc they all have their gimmick.

Pacquiao's is he is distracted, not focused, too much playing, not enough focus, bad training camp, worried, Rocky 3 scenario. Then on fight night he destroys the opponent.

Mayweather is he is so focused and determined, he spars with a random person the cameras leave, they come back and the random person is bloody. Then on fight night it goes to a decision.

These 24/7 episodes, interviews, no training etcs are for nothing more than to hype the fight. If they showed Pacquiao being focused dominant, destroying everything in his path and as if there was no distractions whatsoever, no one would buy this fight because they saw what's been done to Margarito and saw him get destroyed by Mosley. The chance that this fight is pushing is that Margarito has a chance because Pacquiao is unfocused.

Every "opponent" has had the best training camp ever and will be a hungry beast come fight night, while Pacqiao is going through the motions and shall be caught napping. But come fight night the opponents are the ones beaten.

However I will say this, even at their least, eventually distractions no matter how small, will catch up to us.