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No more excuses! Please!

big_james1016y ago

I have one request for Pacquaio's fans. Please stop the excuses. Since the date of March 13 was first announced, there have been hundreds of posts on this site and others saying that March was too soon for Pac to recover from the Cotto fight. Pac's promoter, Arum picked the date. Pac AGREED to the fight on that date. He could have opted for May, but chose that date. After he agreed to it, Roach said it would be okay. Yet, all the Pac fans on this site and others keep claiming that is too soon. This is nothing more than a built in excuse that will be used when Pac loses to Mayweather. I guess the logic here is that, if you start making excuses several months before the fight, it will have some credibility by fight night. Mayweather fans are not making excuses. We could say that Floyd needs another tuneup because he has been off for so long. If Floyd loses, we will accept the fact that Pacquaio is the better fighter. However, based on what I have seen so far, the "it-was-too-soon" excuse will start posting before the referee reaches the count of 10 when Floyd KO's Pac. IF you have confidence in your fighter, you have no reason to complain. Please stop the excuses!

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HAHA take a look at all these threads about pac using steroids.. The flomos are shook u can see it.. They're already planting an excuse... They know their boy is about to get KO'd..

16y ago

I bet a month before the fight.... they're gonna postpone it till early May cuz of sum mysterious injury from Pacman...:dance:

16y ago

I have one request for Pacquaio's fans. Please stop the excuses. Since the date of March 13 was first announced, there have been hundreds of posts on this site and others saying that March was too soon for Pac to recover from the Cotto fight. Pac's promoter, Arum picked the date. Pac AGREED to the fight on that date. He could have opted for May, but chose that date. After he agreed to it, Roach said it would be okay. Yet, all the Pac fans on this site and others keep claiming that is too soon. This is nothing more than a built in excuse that will be used when Pac loses to Mayweather. I guess the logic here is that, if you start making excuses several months before the fight, it will have some credibility by fight night. Mayweather fans are not making excuses. We could say that Floyd needs another tuneup because he has been off for so long. If Floyd loses, we will accept the fact that Pacquaio is the better fighter. However, based on what I have seen so far, the "it-was-too-soon" excuse will start posting before the referee reaches the count of 10 when Floyd KO's Pac. IF you have confidence in your fighter, you have no reason to complain. Please stop the excuses! Mayweather fans are not making excuses? GTFOH.... Look all this Mayweather saying Pac is on steroids. Why do you think that is bro? So if Pac beats Floyd it was cuz he is on HGH. So please Mayweather fans stop with the excuses. If you have confident in your fighter, you have no reason to throw out stupid allegations that you have no proof of. Please stop the excuses.

16y ago

But he has a sore ear :(

16y ago