Pac-Marg TALE OF THE TAPE

[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.

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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