Is it me or is Pacs performance Saturday a little overrated??

**generalbulldog** · 11-17-2010 06:46 AM

It was a good fight and performance. The most entertaining fight of the night. I went over to my buddy's house and watch the fight, he had no regrets buying it.

Much better, entertaining, and more dominating than that god awful main event match in England.

**arcanum26** · 11-17-2010 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by generalbulldog

It was a good fight and performance. The most entertaining fight of the night. I went over to my buddy's house and watch the fight, he had no regrets buying it.

Much better, entertaining, and more dominating than that god awful main event match in England.

Yeah, had to watch that one on replay. Can't say much about it though...

**Taeth** · 11-17-2010 07:00 AM

THe one thing I keep on seeing with Pacquiao is that laced between all the brilliant things he does are glaring holes, now his warrior spirit, amazing condition, and unbelievable speed give him ways of getting around these where he is seemingly defenseless, unfocused, and regouping. However I think it's evident that there is a lot of improvement still to be made with him. Pacquiao has learned how to punch with the whole body, and that gives him amazing power and speed when he is throwing combinations which he learns from how he and Roach do pads, and how he hits the heavy. The problem comes when he needs to sharp shoot an opponent from far away. Against a mobile opponent ie. Marquez II, Barrera II Pacquiao really had difficulties boxing on the outside, and though I felt he won both fights there wasn't his trademark combinations and high level pace. They basically took away with a little footwork in more than one direction. We've seen that despite their immense skill that MArquez and Barrera aren't really true boxers as much as boxer punchers, and their ability to box still relies on them to really set themselves and land hard punches in order to keep their opponent on the defensive. However we have honestly not seen Pacquiao to my knowledge against a pure counter puncher with speed and movement. I'm guessing he would likely almost all of them, but it would be interesting to see somebody like that go against his style of fighting because of the reasons I mentioned. I think he would do better against a guy like Leonard maybe than a guy like Whitaker or Benitez simply because Leonard would make the same mistake almost everyone else does and he would try to trade with Manny as soon as Manny landed something. I think Benitez well trained or Whitaker would actually take the time to figure out where Pacquiao's weaknesses are. Duran would also been interesting opponent for Manny because he was similar to Hatton but a harder puncher, better chin, and harder to hit though maybe a little slower. He would have been able to keep the fight more on the inside where Manny wouldn't have the same power or use of his combinations, I am not talking at punching range like Margarito had him, but right in close.

**miron_lang** · 11-17-2010 07:26 AM

Maybe..if you say that it was the greatest performance of all time.

He fought him( Marg) like there was no size disparity. 6'2 Paul Williams did not come close to what Manny Pacquiao did to Margarito who had additional 3lbs.

The ratings from the journalists are fine IMO.

**:::PSL:::** · 11-17-2010 07:51 AM

His performance last saturday was expected indeed. He didn't really shocked the world. But it's was like watching a good movie sequel. You kinda know what's gonna happen but you still get amazed after watching it.

**miron_lang** · 11-17-2010 08:03 AM