I think they treid to make him fight with the same game plan as Marquez, weight for Pacquiao to get off balance, but its Oscar wasn't changing the distance well enough, and he wasn't throwing punches in earnest. I definitely think he had the wrong strategy, I honestly thought he was going to fight similarly to how he fought Mayweather, and force Pacquiao backwards, but he really didn't do that often, though of course Pacquiao has extraordinarily fast feet so its not easy to chase him around ,but I thought Oscar would to that more, but he hardly used his jab at all, and despite an opponent being southpaw if he is 4 inches shorter you should be using it, if not for anything else, to keep the distance stop the opponent from coming in. Oscar's jab made it difficult for Mayweather to stand his ground, but against Pacquiao he wasn't snapping it at all.
I could also see this being that Pacquiao's feet were just too quick, he was always moving around, not letting Oscar get into a rythm, and his punches were being felt. Everytime OScar moved forward Pacquiao would move back then use lateral movement and Oscar couldn't really catch him, my problem is he didn't really try to follow up very much.
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