Comments Thread For: Pacquiao Cites Height Concerns, Rejects Foreman

[dnut17]

Bull****. Oscar De La Hoya is 5'10, one inch shorter than Foreman and also had a reach advantage of several inches. Mayweather is 5'8 and Diego Corrales is 6'1, but that didn't stop Mayweather from chopping Corrales down. I have my own conspiracy theory about this. Either Pac never intended to fight Foreman and it was a ploy to try to get Mayweather to agree to their terms or Foreman refused to fight at a catchweight of 150 and refused Pac's demand to enter the ring weighing no more than a certain weight (154 for example).

You took the words out of my mouth. PAC is looking worse and worse every day.

[ngomez23]

Do you know why pacquiao won't fight Mayweather or Foreman? Its because he's a coward who has his opponents cherry picked to fight the weakest champion in each division at a catch weight, why not fight mosely who will beat the living crap out of him? He could'nt knock out Morales in their first fight when he was steroid free at 130 lbs. Then all of a sudden he gets bulked up to beat him like a rag doll and he claims its a result of "hard work." Come on who's going to fall for that crap when he was a thief in his youth, sold cigarrettes for a living and cheated on his wife but claims that it wasn't true eventhough there's proof everywhere. Like the saying goes once a cheater always a cheater.

[-EX-]

Glad he won't fight Foreman...bull**** fight to begin with

[BennyST]

So 70" is longer than 72" to you?:thinking1:

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[keithvnz]

Looks like Pacquiao is going to fight Josua Clottey..

[Suckmedry]

It's not the height guys. I think Roach might have told Manny Yuri is a bad style matchup for him.

[KJB]

I see your points which are good but i think those are just selling points to gain interest in the fight. First of all they would have fought at a catch weight and Yuri is nowhere in Pac's league. Remember Floy'd beat Oscar 154 even though that version of dela hoya is not as good as Yuri right now but you get the drift. Height had nothing to do with Pac's decision for not taking that fight don't buy it for one minute. Pac would have beaten him.

No catch weight was ever mentioned, the fight was to be at 154. Also, Pac beat Oscar at 147, not 154, thats part of why the fight was so easy for him.

[brownbrawler]

de la hoya was also 5'11" if not 6' so whats the problem here? pacquiao needs to take the tests if he's not dirty. i get the feeling he has been juicin after the way he walked right through cotto. there is no reason for him not to take the tests.

[KabukiJoe]

It's ducking either way and no i don't think " not being a good draw" is a valid excuse either its totally lame, just like using height concerns is.

...I agree...if Manny doesn't fight the Klitchko Brothers one after another, it's outright ducking...


Kabuki Joe

[Marciano90s]

prob yuri would hurt manny.freddy wont make his fighters hurt