Comments Thread For: Ricky Hatton Cautions That Pacquiao Should Not Be Overlooked in Spence Fight

[I have no ears]

Biggest fight of the year and it should be an excellent card. No matter which fighter ultimately wins I just hope this PBC card is successful, the American sports fan buys it, there are no bad decisions, and boxing makes a positive impression that night. Excellent chance to capture the American sports fan’s imagination

Why are u so invested in what american sports fans think when you're not american? How's about just watch the fight and enjoy yourself without scouring the whole card to post something negative about race after the fact

[Truth Serum]

As long as there’s some sort of reasonable vada testing involved, Pac has little to no chance of winning this fight.

You Floyd Fanboys really ran with this PED rumor and will die defending your idol's words. Smh. How tf does someone do roids for over a decade and not have health problems by now? Roids speed up your physical decline and this dude is gonna be 43 later this year. More importantly, how does a fighter who's been accussed of PEDs by his arch rival pass more PED tests than anyone in boxing history without using an IV?

[M111]

Here’s the thing. A lot of observers look at the thurman fight and read the wrong things into it with regard to comparisons with Spence. Personally I thought he fought better than he had done in years against pacquiao. I think his timing is better than Spence, he’s lighter on his feet and he’s a better counterpuncher. And Manny still beat him. Pacquiao does best against pressure fighters and I reckon Spences feet will be too slow and his lateral movement too poor. He fights in straight lines. I think Manny will outbox and maybe even stop him in the later rounds. Spence is strong and relentless but he’s struggled with movement and is a bit one dimensional. Brook was tagging him a lot until his eye socket went.

[Nightfall]

anything can happen in boxing. Spence has a high guard defense with a accurate stiff jab. Pacquiao better get him out of there early or he's going to take a serious beating.

[Beercules]

I really want Pac to pull this off

[Spoon23]

Here’s the thing. A lot of observers look at the thurman fight and read the wrong things into it with regard to comparisons with Spence. Personally I thought he fought better than he had done in years against pacquiao. I think his timing is better than Spence, he’s lighter on his feet and he’s a better counterpuncher. And Manny still beat him. Pacquiao does best against pressure fighters and I reckon Spences feet will be too slow and his lateral movement too poor. He fights in straight lines. I think Manny will outbox and maybe even stop him in the later rounds. Spence is strong and relentless but he’s struggled with movement and is a bit one dimensional. Brook was tagging him a lot until his eye socket went.

Good points. Spence is mechanical. His head movement is almost non existent. Spence moves in straight lines..

All things Pac loves to exploit. Not to mention Pac is great with Lefties..

Pac can obviously win this.. Only thing that I see that can turn this fight for Spence, is if Pac's stamina doesn't hold up because of his old age. Let's see of Grandpac pulls it off.

It's going to be crazy if he does.

[TMLT87]

I like Spence but if Pac pulls this off it would be jaw dropping.

[Jab jab boom]

You Floyd Fanboys really ran with this PED rumor and will die defending your idol's words. Smh. How tf does someone do roids for over a decade and not have health problems by now? Roids speed up your physical decline and this dude is gonna be 43 later this year. More importantly, how does a fighter who's been accussed of PEDs by his arch rival pass more PED tests than anyone in boxing history without using an IV?

were you literally crying as you wrote this? Calm down you emotional wreck. I’m not a Floyd fan and I’m intelligent enough to know there’s reasonable cause to suspect pac may not always be clean. All peds aren’t roids and all peds wouldn’t give you health problems in your 40s. But there are 100% peds that actually help you to perform better into your older age. Not to mention pac has a history of not being big into testing and I’m not even referring to the Floyd situation. He was tested for horn and looked bad. He then wasn’t tested for mathysse and scored his first ko in nearly a decade. There were issues with the testing getting started on time for both the broner and Thurman fights. Sorry but if you’re an A side fighter and are clean, wouldn’t it be logical to want to make sure testing is involved in your fights since you have the power to demand it? With pac, it’s the opposite and it’s the opponents who bring up the lack of testing. So like I said, there’s plenty of reasons to suspect pac isn’t fully clean.

[Smash]

pac was a buzzsaw back in those days, hattons head was just too easy to hit for him

[Robbie Barrett]

You Floyd Fanboys really ran with this PED rumor and will die defending your idol's words. Smh. How tf does someone do roids for over a decade and not have health problems by now? Roids speed up your physical decline and this dude is gonna be 43 later this year. More importantly, how does a fighter who's been accussed of PEDs by his arch rival pass more PED tests than anyone in boxing history without using an IV?

Stallone has been on them decades he doesn't look in bad condition for a man in his 70s does he? More PED tests than anyone in history, where you get this nonsense? He's rarely tested, he avoids VADA when he can. He's just had 2 years out without being tested.