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I've been thinking Manny since it was announced.

I thought he won a close fight, although clearly didn't win as many rounds.

Mainly he's improved more than JMM to me. He just fell in love with the left hand after that first round, no body work, no right hook. A more tactical fighter now too.

And even though JMM has been incredible offensively lately he's been getting hit a lot more. Its not that he's been looking bad or anything, he's won all of his fights lately fairly comfortably-I thought he pretty clearly beat MAB-but he's looked easier to hit, look at the Terdsak fight, Jaca fight. And I thought he looked good but maybe not great against Rocky.
JMM has always been open to the straight left of the southpaw,but now Manny has more tools to go with it. JMM also gets marked up alot more now so I can imagine his face looking pretty badly busted. He has looked dam good in his last four or five fights and I had him beating mab comfortably too.I had JMM beating Manny the first time though.Was close.

I don't think JMM will be as offensive,although I will say this,if Manny fights like he did v MAB or the other dude he fought last year(Solis?Mind's gone blank) he'll lose. V Solis,he looked raw and 1 dimensional again and v MAB,he outboxed a guy who was there to survive. v JMM,you can't outbox the master boxer.
Manny didn't take Jorge Solis and MAB seriously that much. He had tons of distractions last year (political/scandals, training in P.I., wild lifestyle). but still managed to win convincingly.

Manny is taking this fight seriously. He's training like an animal at the wild card gym with zero distraction. The last I've heard of him trained like that was when he fought EM for the third time.

I'm sure JMM will do his best to avoid the flying straight left, that's why Pac's right hook will play a big role this time.