Quote Originally Posted by zhubin
Quote Originally Posted by Pacstraightleft
Quote Originally Posted by zhubin
Wow! Everyone is counting Barrera out...including his own country men. This will just give him extra motivation. For all of Pac's tremendous athleticism...he ultimately knows how to fight only one way. People can sugar coat his technical flaws all they want...but if for whatever reason his plan A doesn't work against Marco....does he have a plan B to fall back on? We all know Marco can fight numerous different ways. Knowing this is his last fight he will be in tremendous shape and will have a game plan. Most people think Manny's pressure will be too much. But as Marquez proved in his fight with Pac...if you can withstand the initial surge...a technically superior fighter can out box Manny. For all the talk that Manny is the Mexican killer: he lost his first match with Morales and then defeated a shot Eric in their next two bouts. He had a draw against Marquez. And he of course had a big win over a distracted and unprepared Marco in their first fight. Not trying to discount Pac...he is an exciting, dynamic fighter who is a handful for anyone...but he is not unbeatable and still has enough flaws to be exposed by an intelligent and skilled fighter. Should be a great fight!
Pac did lots of improvements since 2003. And you're right, EM and JMM taught Pac some lessons... and lesson learned for him and he keeps improving. All pacfans should also look at it in positive way.

Pac was a one-handed wrecking ball when he defeated MAB. Now he's a two-fisted Pacmonster. He can also do the cha-cha too, and what I meant by that is... he can fight forward, laterals, and backward with hard punches and blistering speed.
While i agree with you that Pac has certainly improved since the first Barrera fight...he still has big flaws in his style. I strongly disagree that he can fight backwards...i think this is one area where he is the weakest. He also tends to lounge on his punches and is often off balance. He is a tremendous athlete...so he often can get away with his technical flaws. But he ultimately knows how to fight one way....coming forward with pressure. Listen...i by no means am hating on Pac...i think he is an exciting fighter. All i am saying is that Barrera was no where near his best in that first fight. And sure...Marco hasn't gotten any younger....but he is still a tremendous boxer who can fight multiple styles. Pac deserves to be the favorite....i just think he will have a hell of a harder fight against Barrera than people are expecting.
Pac KD Morales while fighting backwards with the left hook, Pac got even pressed against the rope when that happened. Then Pac rocked him with his right hook while again fighting backward followed up by barrage of punches that resulted the 2nd KD.

The thing is, EM's team thought Pac couldn't fight backwards. That was their strategy... knowing that EM can no longer fight full 12 rounds so they also pressured Pac in early rounds and hopinglly KO him. Obviously that didn't work.

Watch this slowmo footage and you'll see what I'm talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvHXlWLFm3s

But I do agree with you that Pac is NOT a flawless fighter but he's only 28 and will still get better.