Manny Pacquiao vs Tim Bradley This is how it will go

[Master]

Looks like the Manny fans are back! Where have you been?

[zhubin]

Amazing how some people refuse to honestly asses a fighter. Manny has been on the slide for some time now. He CLEARLY has lost some of his speed and no longer fights with that non stop energy for the entire rounds. This is all normal considering his age and how many wars he has been in (add to that...Pac ALWAYS has distractions). The fact that some people want to ignore this and say it's all a part of Manny becoming more of a smart boxer is hilarious. What made Pac unique was the way he USED to fight. If people are going to use the Rios fight as some evidence of a new Pac...get ready for a rude surprise. I have never been a big Bradley fan...but he has come into his prime and is now fighting with confidence. I see Tim as the more hungry and live fighter. This will be a close fight but i have Bradley winning it on points.

[IamInuit]

The importance of this fight for both men has been ignored or at least understated. I doubt either man gets Floyd but both men believe there is a shot and pride is huge here to boot. Manny has seen the talk by guys like me and others that he has lost a step mentally and physically and is not the locomotive he was. Even his own trainer has said that he's got the killer instinct back which suggests something was lacking. Bradley despite his great resume has more to prove now then at any other time in his career. From a divisional standpoint, its probably the most relevant fight in quite some time. Bradley can almost afford to lose it but I'm not sure Manny can. Tim also has to know that he wont get a close decision.

[zhubin]

The importance of this fight for both men has been ignored or at least understated. I doubt either man gets Floyd but both men believe there is a shot and pride is huge here to boot. Manny has seen the talk by guys like me and others that he has lost a step mentally and physically and is not the locomotive he was. Even his own trainer has said that he's got the killer instinct back which suggests something was lacking. Bradley despite his great resume has more to prove now then at any other time in his career. From a divisional standpoint, its probably the most relevant fight in quite some time. Bradley can almost afford to lose it but I'm not sure Manny can. Tim also has to know that he wont get a close decision.

Totally agree about Tim not getting a close decision. I very well can see a reverse of their first fight happening. As far as killer instinct...not sure if that is something you can get back at this stage of your career. Pac is a superstar...the most famous person from his country....someone who always has a mass of people around him...distractions a plenty. Add to that the kind of wear his style of fighting takes on the body (that KO at the hands of Marquez certainly didn't help)...i think people who are expecting him to be the energetic wrecking ball of the past are going to be disappointed.

[beenKOed]

Amazing how some people refuse to honestly asses a fighter. Manny has been on the slide for some time now. He CLEARLY has lost some of his speed and no longer fights with that non stop energy for the entire rounds. This is all normal considering his age and how many wars he has been in (add to that...Pac ALWAYS has distractions). The fact that some people want to ignore this and say it's all a part of Manny becoming more of a smart boxer is hilarious. What made Pac unique was the way he USED to fight. If people are going to use the Rios fight as some evidence of a new Pac...get ready for a rude surprise. I have never been a big Bradley fan...but he has come into his prime and is now fighting with confidence. I see Tim as the more hungry and live fighter. This will be a close fight but i have Bradley winning it on points.

Saying it does not make it so. Fight nite gives us the answers.
I've come to like Bradley. I wouldn't mind too much if Bradley won, as long as it's inside the ring. Get him, Manny.

[jon09]

Pac's prime is gone and I think Bradley has the psychological edge in this rematch. Bradley wins by split decision.

[Beanflicker]

Bradley is WAY hungrier. He said he wanted to kill himself after the first Pac fight because everyone was talking shit about him, it nearly drove him to suicide. He has a fire under his ass to smash Pac and leave no doubt, and I think he'll do just that!

People can say Bradley lost the first fight, but in losing he also made Pacquiao miss a TON of punches.

[pacfan]

After the great ko, I consider every pac fight as his last. He 'looks' okay but I'm not sure if he totally recovered from that ko and so I'm worried a bit about his punch resistant. I don't think pac will be knocked in this fight but I won't be surprised if he did. An improving fighter getting into his prime against an ageing one, hmmm, I'm not sure. But to pac's credit I watched the highlights of the last fight with bradley and saw him able to hit Brad pretty well, something a pure counter-puncher JMM wasn't able to do, which brings me to a topic about style. A pure counter-puncher has difficulty fighting evasive fighters, just like Donaire had difficulty with Rigo (I think JMM-Brad fight, which was a 'lesser' version of his fight with Floyd, looked somewhat like Donaire-Rigo fight) but a pure offensive fighter does pretty well with them, maybe this is the reason why floyd is 'politely declining' the fight, just maybe...

Just to sum up, I'm not sure about this fight. All I can say is Brad is coming in as a better, more confident fighter than the last time and I just hope team Pac is not underestimating him. But anyhow, good luck to my boy.