
Originally Posted by
corvette

Originally Posted by
ono

Originally Posted by
Beanflicker
When a guy turns down a huge pay day because he won't take a drug test, and after being accused of PEDs suddenly seems to lose his KO power almost instantly... it makes you wonder...
His KO power stemmed from the fact that he was fighting guys who engaged with him and thus left themselves open to counters. He hit Clottey and Oscar a million times without ever putting them over, yet Hatton and Cotto traded with him and got stopped.
There's no controversy. Steroids don't make you punch harder.
Hatton and Cotto were coming of KO losses.
When a fighter walks away from the biggest fight ever over drug testing....that is controversy.
Don't bullshit yourself...that's never a good thing.
What does that have to do with anything? Pacquiao had them in trouble because they left themselves wide open/walked on to shots. Not because he had super human steroid punching power. Clottey and De La Hoya largely covered up against Pacquiao which clearly lessened their chances of being KO'd. I don't get how that's difficult for anyone to grasp - if you walk on to a punch - it increases the impact, if you pull away from the punch or partially block it, it lessens the impact.
You need to point out where i am 'bullshitting myself' because i haven't declared that Pacquiao is 100% a clean fighter - because nobody on this board knows, and the same applies to Floyd or any other top level fighter. I have no allegiance to Pacquiao, nor do i particularly care about whether he's taken PEDs or not. I couldn't give two super shits. I'm just pointing out that KO/TKO wins over two fighters who tried to go to war with a much faster and more accurate fighter proves precisely fuck all. It just means they got punched in the face and they went down. It doesn't mean Manny Pacquiao was on steroids.
Bookmarks