Comments Thread For: Manny Pacquiao 'Ready to Go' for Conor Benn Fight in Saudi Arabia in May/June

[ijudge]

Pitbull Cruz is promoted by Manny Pacquiao Promotions.

Why is the promoter taking away potential fights from his fighter?

Pitbull is fighting at 140.
Haney is fighting at 140.

haney is not staying at 140 that long.
his body growing fast. he said it himself, he might end up fighting at 160 someday. he rehydrated to 165 against prograis. 140 is not a glamour division.

[Lance98]

I don't think a domestic level bum conor deserves a fight with manny. Washed up, has-been Manny should also stay retired at the same time.

[tokon]

Amere Khon will be apoplectic!

[Combat Talk Radio]

There's absolutely no evidence that proves Manny juiced. It was just a rumor and in all probability just nonsense spread by jealous boxers and Pac-Man haters.
Go back to cleaning the trash off the street.

What we do know is that a ref is ON RECORD admitting he helped Manny. So

[Oregonian]

Yo, back in '05, Manny Pacquiao was already a straight-up legend at just 26. Dude was slayin' Mexican fighters left and right. He took down Valasquez during a five-win streak and went toe-to-toe with the iconic Erik Morales. And check this, he even had a sick draw with Juan Manuel Marquez, who's holdin' the WBA Super Featherweight crown during that time. Pacquiao was holdin' it down as the IBF World Featherweight Champ, and he wasn't lettin' nobody take that from him. Even when he faced Marco Antonio Barrera, in Barrera's own hood in San Antonio, Pacquiao showed 'em who's boss. And don't even get me started on Emmanuel Lucero, undefeated till he met the Pac-Man. But yo, it ain't just Mexicans he was servin'. He straight-up knocked out Lehlo Ledwaba from South Africa, takin' that IBF World Super Bantamweight title like it was nothin'. And at just 20, he went to Thailand and straight-up owned Chatchai Sasakul in his own backyard. Man, I ain't even on the Pacquiao hype train, but let's keep it real. If you ain't clued in on Pac's legacy in the ring, you straight-up lookin' foolish.

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Perhaps you should be a rapper. But I digress. PAC was slaying and getting slayed at 26.
Boots is 31-0 and slaying everyone. The rest of the 147 guys (Cough Bud Cough) are ducking him.

PAC has multiple losses on his record. You guys keep saying PAC’s prime was from 2008-2011 but as soon as Marquez vaporized him in 2012, he was “past his prime”.
As for his legendary fights at 126/130, that was not his prime cause he was also taking losses.

Add to the PAC will never fight exhibition fights like Floyd until he goes to fight a YouTuber and now some “legendary kickboxer”.

Shifting goalposts as expected.

[Oregonian]

Pac is out here hustlin' tryna make ends meet, ya feel me? Ain't nothin' wrong with that grind. But yo, them whack shows puttin' Pacquiao and Floyd up against rookies? Nah, that's straight up disrespectful. I ain't sayin' Pacquiao was still at his peak back at 126 to 130 pounds, I'm just answerin' your question. And Boots? Ain't even got a legit belt yet. Marquez had to scrap four times just to figure out how to handle Manny, and even then, he got lucky with that punch. So don't trip, Bud's gonna school Boots even worse than Marquez did to knock out Pacquiao. And yo, thanks for the rap career suggestion, but that ain't my lane, ya dig?

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Marquez fought PAC four times and arguably won all of them. That’s how close those fights were.

But when you say Marquez got lucky with that punch, it just exposes you as a casual fan.
How many times did Manny get dropped in that fight? Did you conveniently forget the first knockdown that happened in the 3rd round? Was that also a “lucky” punch?

[Pappy O’Daniel]

Don't do it Manny! Stick to exhibitions if you want to fight that badly.

[tophat1]

It will be sad to see.

Kind of proves benns team have no faith in him, avoided all the domestic rivals like kelly, kongo, mckinson ect coming up.

Now hes ranked highly hes looking for gimmick fights rather than face contenders .

[Marchegiano]

Where are all the ruined legacy kids at?

[IceTrayDaGang]

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Marquez fought PAC four times and arguably won all of them. That’s how close those fights were.

But when you say Marquez got lucky with that punch, it just exposes you as a casual fan.
How many times did Manny get dropped in that fight? Did you conveniently forget the first knockdown that happened in the 3rd round? Was that also a “lucky” punch?

pac didnt get drop in any of the 3 fights until the 4th one... he got dropped twice.. but the "lucky" punch is more so about how pac tripped and fell right into marquez punch.. that's what people meant when they said "lucky".. what's the chances of that happening? had pac not tripped, he probably wouldnt have gotten ko'd.