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Originally posted by -Kev- View PostHey…he was going to either fight Fabian Maidana and have the same supposed bicep issue, or fight Pacquiao.
Look, if you had the choice of losing to Fabian Maidana or losing to Manny Pacquiao, or pulling out altogether, what would you choose?
This is most likely Ugas only chance at a real top name of his generation in his whole career. It is unhealthy if true, it is ill-advised to go on, but it is highly unlikely that the guy will let a bicep stop him from fighting Manny Pacquiao.
It is a once in a lifetime chance. The guy is likely 100% willing to fight Pacquiao with one arm. I would too. If I was 35, my time was running out, i’m relatively unknown…fck it, i’m doing it. How? No clue. Idk how you can go into a fight knowing you have only 1 arm. Yes there’s been fights where a fighter gets an arm/shoulder/bicep injury and have to find a way to keep going or quit. But going in knowing you are injured, with one arm, that’s tough.
Let’s hope he is not injured, or it looks worse than what it really is and we can get a decent fight.
Regardless…it’s either lose to Fabian, lose to Pacquiao, or pull out altogether. As a prizefighter looking for the limelight and future big paydays, he is choosing Pacquiao. Credit to him. Hell, if he tries hard enough and makes it close, he might even get a rematch and therefore a good check. Or what if it’s a Draw? You just never know. This could lead to something bigger for him. Or he could just got TKO’ed and forced to quit. Anything can happen.
Pacquiao has no control over all of these younger guys fighting injuries. His job is to stay in shape and be ready, avoid drunk driving (Spence), avoid car accidents that mess your shoulder up (Thurman), and avoid bicep injuries (Ugas). I mean at this rate, all these welterweights going down with injuries, Pacquiao might as well just shadowbox in the ring on PPV then if no one can stay healthy for one reason or the other.
so Pacquiao went into the Mayweather fight with a injury and ripped us off by proceeding?
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Originally posted by PRchamp View Post
Didn’t Pacquiao need a shaman to cure his injured shoulder against mayweather??
so Pacquiao went into the Mayweather fight with a injury and ripped us off by proceeding?
Or they lied to save face. Maybe there was no shoulder injury.
But NSAC confirms there was. Arum messed up paperwork and failed to get Pacquiao approved for anti-inflammatory shots. Even the US anti-doping agency approved the shot. NSAC did not, citing wrong paperwork by Arum.
They are sticking to their shoulder injury excuse. So, yeah, if Pacquiao went into the fight knowing he had an injured shoulder, he ripped off his supporters and the people paying for PPV/tickets. Arum sent him in there and said they had worked on the shoulder enough so that he is able to use the right hand but that it “reinjured in the 3rd round”.
Roach and Arum are equally bad. Roach and Arum only “considered” postponing the fight due to the injury, but did not. So they let their star fighter go in there with an “injured shoulder”.
They may have been banking on a rematch. They thought maybe they can use the shoulder injury to get that second big payday. Their plan backfired.
NSAC reported that Pacquiao notified them of the shoulder injury on the day of the fight, at 6:30pm, despite knowing about it well before that.
Mayweather stated he has fought with two bad arms and two bad hands. It happens and if you know it, and are fighting anyway, then don’t complain about it. Which is true.
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