Quote Originally Posted by Rantcatrat View Post
I agree to an extent. Pacquiao's demise might have been overrated, but there's still been some slippage, and as mentioned in another thread, I'm not super confident he can take a punch all that well any more. It was a fun fight.
I agee he is certainly not the fighter he once was but that speaks more for what a hell of a fighter he was in his heyday than for how Bradley was stupid for not being able to adjust his game plan. There were a couple almost scares there where I found myself hoping that he would not be found wanting by a pretty average and at times meek, clowning Bradley. To get knocked out by a modern great like Marquez is one thing but to fall pray to a flailing off balance vegetarian action man doll is quite another. Tim played his part but I think he revealed more of his own limitations than Manny did. Manny is walking towards the horizon and it may have been his last great fight but there were moments in it which revealed why he was once a true GREAT.