can Pac do a sugar shane mosley on DLH?

[hitmanhatton]

the only problem with what you just said is that Cotto didnt throw no body shots..

[zhubin]

Pac is a tremendous athlete. He has certainly improved his skills as well. But he is in no shape or form a technical, slick, counter puncher. Oscar has had problems with those types of fighters. Pac is a come forward, aggressor. IF he was Oscars size...you can argue he could overpower Delahoya with his better conditioning and speed. But he isn't. Aside from the much bigger Hopkins...when has Delahoya been hurt to the body...or hurt PERIOD? Quertey...no. A steroid beast in Vargas...no. Trinidad...no. But a fighter who has fought nearly his entire career at 130-135 is going to hurt him? Don't think so. If Oscar fights smart fight...meaning using his jab and superior skill early in the fight...he will win and potentially knock Pac out. It is possible that Oscar comes in so weak and weight drained...that he becomes a shot fighter saturday night. But that's unlikely.

[RozzySean]

the only problem with what you just said is that Cotto didnt throw no body shots..

He didn't throw his usually amount, no, but he did go to the body some. He knew he wasn't going to beat Tony that way. In a battle of body punching and slugging, he knew that he would lose. He had more opportunities downstairs, in part because Tony was committed to the body and that leaves the head open. Margo knew that he could eat Cotto's head shot in order to get to Cotto's body and where him down.

Cotto, being smaller, could not have won that fight by wearing him down with body work. Cotto knew that his body attack wouldn't be effective on a a guy Tony's size, and he adjust his fight plan accordingly. I was working well until the accumulation of the bigger mans body punching took it's toll. Against smaller guys or equal sized guys, like Quintana or Judah, the body work is much more effective.

Like I said, Pac ain't stopping Oscar with a body shot. It's not like Pac has a Mickey Ward left-hook that is his money, KO punch. Though he has a good right hook, I don't see him landing a right hook to the heart that is as debilitating as a liver shot. He'll be able to land a straight right to the body, but that punch doesn't have the ability to dig into the liver like a left hook, and there's no way in hell a southpaw is ever going to throw a left hook to the body. You would get murdered with a counter straight right.

I just can't see this ending well for Pac. He's not the type of fighter to jump in and out and pot shot against Oscar, and he's not going to be able to pressure and swarm him without getting his head taken off.

[ICB]

the only problem with what you just said is that Cotto didnt throw no body shots..

Hard to throw body shots when your constantly being forced on the backfoot. And Manny Pacquiao like Miguel Cotto, will be forced on the backfoot constantly.