Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez IV - Saturday night fight/chat thread

[GAME]

If Manny spends the whole fight going forward and Marquez spends the whole fight counterpunching and it's a close fight then Manny gets the decision. Marquez will have to do something different to win.

Hes had 2 chances to do something different and failed each time. I think all he is capable of is timing Pac and countering but nothing more. He cant do anything else so he leaves it in the judges hands. If he tried to go for it more, thats when he walks onto shots and gets floored.

Pac on the other hand is capable of something different but he has been in decline for afew fights in a row now and the last fight is evidence that he cant fight at pace like he use to.

He is still more dangerous that Marquez in exchanges though so he has to have a more explosive attitude this time round. He cant stand off and try to box like he did in the 3rd fight. That was the most lopsided fight in Marquez' favour IMO so Pac has to do what made him famous and let his hands go, fight at pace and be relentless. At almost 40 Marquez is the one who should struggle more in that type of fight

[KananKrus]

Before his last fight with Manny Pacquiao, JMM had already stopped drinking pee and instead hired the supreme nutritionist in Angel Heredia, in order to quickly transform himself into the menacing welterweight that he is today.

At some point in time, he had stopped trusting the wisdom of the 18 years of prior training for nutrition provided for him by Beristain... he wasn't sure it would be enough to beat Manny and when it comes to beating Pacquiao, he did not want to leave any stones unturned.

Well, last fight, the third install, gave him a better and a more explosive type of battle and he almost won, if you can only discard the official results, the judges scorecards.

He was definitely bigger than when he was the pee-taking JMM version that suffereda 12 round pummeling at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr.

What's in his drink nowadays? Well, it is nothing that any testing for PEDs, USADA or otherwise, can and will detect as violative... he is clean!

Let the fight begin then and may the best man win! Article below is purely speculative...

Juan Manuel Marquez's newfound muscle raises questions about PED use - Yahoo! Sports Canada