Pacquiao vs Margarito @147

[Silencers]

This is entirely spot on and the only chance Manny would have to win. To constantly land quick combinations and spin off to Tony's side for 12 rounds.

Still, he'd end up eating some solid shots. And I'm not entirely sure he could take them.

Yeah, I'm not sure if Pacquiao would be able to take those shots either but he'd at least make the fight competitive.

[Jim Jeffries]

Hold on. Pac by TKO? And we have votes for this already? I can see Pac making the much slower Margarito miss all night and countering with effective shots, maybe pulling out a decision. But stopping Tony? GTFOOH.

[!! Shawn]

We still don't know how the thrashing he took from Cotto will effect him. That kind of punishment to the brain could ruin a fighter in 1 fight.

[Jim Jeffries]

We still don't know how the thrashing he took from Cotto will effect him. That kind of punishment to the brain could ruin a fighter in 1 fight.

Yeah, I'm not sure Tua or Ibeabuchi were ever the same after their fight either, and Margarito has been a pro for over 15 years, with an aggressive style that causes him to eat lots of leather.

[ßringer]

Rather than respond to every single user who responded to my posts, allow me to address it all in one post.

I realize that in order for Margarito to hurt Manny he would first have to land on him, which would be no easy task for Tony due to the way he struggles against faster, slicker opponets.

But to think that throughout the entire 12 rounds, all 36 minutes of it, Margarito would land nothing, is ludacris. There would come a point in time where he would hit Manny with a savage shot, and I'm not entirely confident in Manny's ability to weather such a shot.

I also realize that Margarito's power lies not in his single punching power, but within the acumulation of punishment he doles out in the course of a fight. So I'm not expecting any one punch knockout on Tony's end either.

But I think at some point in the fight, Manny gets too confident in his own abilities and decides to scrap with Margarito, a guy who honestly should be at 160lbs, and I would pick him to win it by a late TKO.

[ßringer]

We still don't know how the thrashing he took from Cotto will effect him. That kind of punishment to the brain could ruin a fighter in 1 fight.

Let's be honest here, you have to have a brain first in order to sustain punishment to it. And I'm not entirely sure Tony has one, I love watching the guy fight but he's a bit of a barbarian is he not?

It's the only explanation I can come up with for his ungodly ability to laugh it up while he's being battered with powershots like the ones Cotto gave him.

[bestboxingonly]

Margarito is too slow for The Pacman. I coudn't image how frustrated will he be chasing and targeting Manny moving from side to side. Additionally, I also couldn't image how both eyes of his will look like(especially the left) after taking the Pacmans signature Left straight howitzers all night long right before the bell rings on the later rounds. We all know Margarito destroys his opponent by way of accumulation of punches in w/c I doubt he could do it by a moving Manny. Regardless lets get it on.

[Chups]

Speed kills Pac by KO.

[SuckaPunch]

how can tony be a 6-to-1 underdog when 74% of boxingscene thinks he will beat pac?

[FloydTBE]

must be a f*kin joke