Ricky Hatton and Oscar delaHoya will both pick PBF simply because it is unpopular if you consider yourself a "boxing expert" to pick Manny Pacquiao in any fight.
Equally in doing so, it is hard to disassociate this exercise, with the flak that awaits anyone emboldened enough to take that "road". Ridiculed and stoned beyond belief, until after the fight when the PacMan comes out victorious and yourself vindicated, where you are now expected to take the "high road" and disdain from any " I told you so" scenarios. It will be "classless", the same experts will declare. Who wants that!
In the past, it is in fact, "only" a segment of the general public and the solid "pac nuthuggers' that would pick the "PacMan" in a seeming disadvantageous, or at an odds unfavorable matchup. Curious tho' that they always come away with a better result than the "EXPERTS". Hello Emmanuel Steward! Hello Bernard Hopkins! etcetera, etcetera....
It is the "devil may care what they think" attitude that enables them to just go for it, time and again, rewardedly so.
Maybe the "heart of a champion" is an easier pick up, an easier "distinguishable" to the common man!
Nowadays, it is a hard sell for the experts to distance themselves from wannabes, when their "expert knowledge" are proven as just "expert opinion'" ....repeatedly.
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