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alderson is a pac-hater all his life underestimating pacquiao even before pacquiao was born. but one thing alderson missed in his analysis is that he compared boxing to a purely free-for-all affair inside the ring. he missed the thing that boxing is also known as the "sweet science" because a smaller fighter may use his boxing skills to outbox the bigger fighter. i do not have to expound on this because alderson might get insulted how to go to these basics. with the proper preparation and the boxer's innate skills, a skilled, gifted, smaller figher may win over the bigger fighter.
no doubt cotto is the bigger fighter and pacquiao is naturally smaller. this is a fact. but pacquiao has faster hands and legs compared to cotto. this is pacquiao's advantage. he will use this advantage to outbox the bigger fighter in cotto. with his terrible footwork, pacquiao will make cotto the practice target even before cotto could launch his attack. pacquiao and roach already knew how to dismantle cotto's defenses and how will pacquiao avoid getting hit by cotto's body punches. given pacquiao's performance against delahoya and hatton, who claimed to be undefeated in the 140 lbs division, pacquiao will win by knockout over cotto.
with pacquiao's agility and lightning right jabs and right hooks, cotto cannot even set up his attack because pacquiao can preempt his moves by confusing cotto with a jab or hook and his left-and-right-combo, moving either from left to right to confuse cotto. many of pacquiao's opponents have been confused by this moves. from ledwaba, barrera, morales, diaz-to delahoya and hatton.
alderson missed this. if boxing is purely a no-holds-barred-free-for-all action, a bigger fighter will always prevail. but boxing is a sweet science, this is the reason why muhammad ali wins against the likes of foreman, liston and frasier or why sugar ray leonard beat donny lalonde. a boxer's innate skills and his prepartion going into the fight is always material to the fight.
alderson should also know that skills matter in boxing not the size.
no doubt cotto is the bigger fighter and pacquiao is naturally smaller. this is a fact. but pacquiao has faster hands and legs compared to cotto. this is pacquiao's advantage. he will use this advantage to outbox the bigger fighter in cotto. with his terrible footwork, pacquiao will make cotto the practice target even before cotto could launch his attack. pacquiao and roach already knew how to dismantle cotto's defenses and how will pacquiao avoid getting hit by cotto's body punches. given pacquiao's performance against delahoya and hatton, who claimed to be undefeated in the 140 lbs division, pacquiao will win by knockout over cotto.
with pacquiao's agility and lightning right jabs and right hooks, cotto cannot even set up his attack because pacquiao can preempt his moves by confusing cotto with a jab or hook and his left-and-right-combo, moving either from left to right to confuse cotto. many of pacquiao's opponents have been confused by this moves. from ledwaba, barrera, morales, diaz-to delahoya and hatton.
alderson missed this. if boxing is purely a no-holds-barred-free-for-all action, a bigger fighter will always prevail. but boxing is a sweet science, this is the reason why muhammad ali wins against the likes of foreman, liston and frasier or why sugar ray leonard beat donny lalonde. a boxer's innate skills and his prepartion going into the fight is always material to the fight.
alderson should also know that skills matter in boxing not the size.
I don't know who will win the Cotto vs Manny fight but all I will say is that he did pick the weakest of the top welterweights out there. Manny don't want to fight Floyd, Shane, Clottey, Berto. He would get his little ass destroyed
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