Quote Originally Posted by DaxxKahn View Post
Manfredo is a local feel good fighter...He will get on the undercard of big events and headline some small shows but nothing more.....He is the guy that everyone from his hometown can say they know or they have met and it is a name most who are fans of the sport have heard of and those who aren't are impressed by the whold TV show thing.......

Peter is a nice kid with limited skills and will never be world champion but is also they guy you would like to see make it happen....makes it fun to root for him
I actually think he has good skills, but he lacks great athletic ability and the drive to work and diet himself in the kind of condition he needs to be at the top of his game. He can fight both inside and out, he has some defense. He's a cute fighter who doesn't get hit flush much, and at his best, he doesn't waste a lot of nervous energy. On the other hand, he doesn't have exceptional hand or foot speed. He's not a naturally powerful puncher. Most of his success is based on the fact that he's been training since he was very young and he has very good fundamentals. If he had the discipline to make 154 the right way (not a weight drained, weak 154), he could be legit top 10 fighter and legitimately challenge for an alphabet soup belt. But at 168, he's never going to beat guys that don't have serious flaws. He can hold his own at that weight with limited and incomplete fighters like Banks, Spina, and McCrary. Hell he even had a chance to beat Lacy, he's a more skillful boxer than Lacy, but Lacy is too big for him and once he tasted the power of a real hard hitting SMW, he mentally folded. A guy like Bika is going to out muscle him. He's' just too big physically, and Allen Green would outbox him soundly if he fought a smart fight.

I honestly think he would stand a good chance against Jean Pascal. After Froch puts a hurt on Pascal, that would make a great fight for both guys. Manfredo vs Duddy is a potentially great local fight. That would be a tough one to call, because Manfredo has more skill but Duddy has more heart.