Are we overestimating Pacquiao's Power Shots at 140?

[strugler]

yea true i take nothing away from pac's accomplishments, just hes fighting to many bigger men, it will catch up to him eventually

I hope not this year. "live by the sword die by the sword".

[baracuda]

Lazcano didn't even come close to winning. Hatton won almost every round, if I remember correctly?


Tszyu quit. He should have stayed on for an extra round!

does that make it 3 losses to you then if tzu finished 12?fair enough but he did get rocked bigtime and imo lazcano pulled off the upset connecting harder puches

[nujabes77]

ummmm, have you seen de la hoya's face after the fight? i dont know what you call the but having bumps like mad on your face must have been from hard punches

i heard they even went to hospital right after since of minor conccusion

[J.B.moneY.]

does that make it 3 losses to you then if tzu finished 12?fair enough but he did get rocked bigtime and imo lazcano pulled off the upset connecting harder puches

what the heck hatton was up on all 3 scorecards in the tzyu fight, he won almost every round against lizcano, and won against collazo in ud....and knocked him down and took his belt....silly thinking to say hatton had more than one lose

[Burner]

What we have to remember about the Oscar fight is two things:

1: Oscar is used to being hit by bigger guys who obviously hit harder (such as Bernard Hopkins). Oscar's chin is excellent.

2: Pacquiao's game plan was to keep moving, not to put full leverage behind punches. Basically, use mobility and speed to move in and out fast and wear Oscar down with accumulation of small but sharp shots. He executed the game plan beautifully and I believe it was the perfect strategy for a larger opponent. All the time Oscar was on his feet, he posed a threat. Oscar is much bigger and his left hook was always potentially deadly for Pacquiao if he happened to make an error and get caught by it. With this in mind, it wasn't wise to stand there slugging away to try and KO Oscar, although I do think Pac was aiming for a round 9 KO and, had the fight continued, he would have knocked him out. Oscar was almost finished in round 7. Freddie Roach put money down on a round 9 KO.

Seriously -- try using that much movement while putting all your weight behind your punches. It won't happen.

So while you may hear "Pac has deadly power" and comments like this, personally I'm getting much more sick of hearing "Pac couldn't even take out Oscar". Did you ever stop to think that the only thing that was important was a win, and that he might not have been aiming for a knockout?

Whichever way you look at it, it was an embarrassing one-sided beating that was never supposed to happen and was not expected by most.

Pacquiao is a phenom. This is not Malignaggi Ricky's dealing with.

And this aint Oscar that pacs dealing with.