Pac-Marg TALE OF THE TAPE

[Dizaster]

I see this being harder for Manny than many are thinking. Margarito is big, durable and throws a god awful lot of punches. Manny has never been in with anything like this before. Hatton- JWW. Cotto-WW who doesn't throw that much. Margarito at 151- a nasty bugger who wasn't known for his punching power, but as someone who digs in and comes on late. Someone who can throw more punches than Manny, if he is ready.

I think maybe this will be Manny's first tough fight at the higher weights and though Margarito doesn't deserve the payday, it will be a very interesting fight.

Gotta agree with you.... Take away the single Mosley loss, and the scandal, and most people would consider this as tough a fight from Manny as a fight with Mayweather would be...

Manny is incredibly skilled, fast, accurate, with incredible defense, and could make Margarito look slow and incredibly easy to hit... But this is no over the hill Oscar DLH... Margarito is an animal in there and if he's got the same heart in there that we saw of him before his downfall, Manny will take a HUGE amount of credit from gritting out a win against a very serious and dangerous fighter...

It's only Manny's supernatural talent that stretches odds out and leans most people towards a relatively easy victory for him... Certainly has nothing to do with a real lack on Margarito's part..

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

I have a horrible feeling that Tony is only here for a payday and for some sort of 'welcome back' into boxing.

I say horrible not because I want Manny to lose but because he should loose.

[X]

It's an interesting fight, and fair play to Pac for keeping busy and not just waiting for the final big payday against Floyd.

If you look at the 'Tale of the Tape', there should only be one winner. Margarito is bigger in every way that Pac. Lets not forget that Pac was a FLYWEIGHT, and Margarito was a massive welterweight.

Dont forget that Margarito was the most dangerous, most avoided fighter at Welter for some time.

The old adage that 'a good big 'un beats a good little 'un' used to be correct in the vast majority of cases ....... but I think two things have changed that:

- the increased number of weight divisions, making safe movement up and dpwn much more possible that when there were only 8
- the amazing advances in nutrition and body science. If Henry Armstrong and Ray Robinson had access to this knowledge, God only knows how many weights they would have been champs in.

BUT - Margarito has always been slow, and we saw how Pac kept up a killing pace for the full fight against Joshua Clottey, another big big welterweight. Margarito is quite lumbering and I'm not sure he is a one-hit stopper of a puncher (even with his gloves loaded, he tended to wear people down, and Pac has a good chin)

I'll put my four penn'orth in now, rather than be wise after the event ..... I think Pac starts brightly, outspeeding margarito and hitting him at will. Margarito is unfazed and actually begins to run forward at Pac to try and bully and maul him, using his huge weight advantage in the ring. I think the fight turns messy, but neither man can really hurt the other.

It comes downto skill and conditioning ....... Pac has more stamina, he built up an early lead and I think he takes a hard fought UD