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Arum's easy alibi if Margarito shocks Pacquiao: I got pass from Trampler
by:Michael Marley
Delusional people keep expressing their opinion that Antonio Margarito, once regarded as boxing's Most Feared or Most Avoided before Tall Paul Williams assumed that unofficial mantle, will be some sort of pugilistic picnic for Manny Pacquiao.
Frankly speaking, I don't get it because I keep having a recurring nightmare, one which jolts me awake at ungodly hours, and it's one in which theredemption seeking Mexican brawler turns out to be the wrong guy at the wrong time in the wrong place on Nov. 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
He dreams about him,LMAO
Put aside Coach Freddie Roach's promotional palaver, his typical poppy**** about the Pacman foe getting whacked out. Roach said the same thing about Joshua Clottey and, if Clottey had engaged, the esteemed trainer wouldn't have been wrong last March at the same venue.
But there's something desperate about Margarito, with the black shadow of the handwrap cheating incident hovering above him, now.
The other day, I asked the careful promoter Bob Arum how bigger and presumably stronger Margarito got in house "clearance" to fight Pacman.
I mean, all it takes for Manny to lose if having an off night which he is overdue for.
Arum seemed calm and untroubled. His reliance, as in past Pacquiao bouts, is on Hall Of Fame matchmaker Bruce "Southland" Trampler.
"I got a pass on this fight," Arum said. "I got a pass from Bruce."
Trampler, heir to his former mentor Teddy Brenner as the fight game's premier fightmaker, is rarely wrong.
But he's not the paragon of perfection, either. He is capable of pilot error.
But let me speculate.
What if Trampler has overestimated Manny and underestimated Tone Loc?
What if this the night that Pacquiao gets hit and get hurt or the evening when Margarito's roughouse tactics weaken the Pinoy Idol?
Arum knew, once the negative wave of Margarito coverage passed, that pundits would start ruminating as to this.
I admit it, I'm losing sleep.
I am wondering if we might, come Nov. 14, be talking about Margarito-Pacman II rather than looking ahead to, finally, the Pacman-Mayweather super bout for May, 2011.
I don't think Margarito, his head clouded by getting caught with the plaster pad inserts in the dressing room, is any hobo because Shane Mosley imposed his physical will on him.
I am convinced Margarito will be standing after 12 complete rounds.
Margarito is still potent, still capable of being not a little pebble but a big stone in Pacquiao's boxing boots.
If he is, it will be Trampler who catches hell.
I wonder if he dreams Pacquiao leaves Jinkee and gets with him,LOL
by:Michael Marley
Delusional people keep expressing their opinion that Antonio Margarito, once regarded as boxing's Most Feared or Most Avoided before Tall Paul Williams assumed that unofficial mantle, will be some sort of pugilistic picnic for Manny Pacquiao.
Frankly speaking, I don't get it because I keep having a recurring nightmare, one which jolts me awake at ungodly hours, and it's one in which theredemption seeking Mexican brawler turns out to be the wrong guy at the wrong time in the wrong place on Nov. 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
He dreams about him,LMAO
Put aside Coach Freddie Roach's promotional palaver, his typical poppy**** about the Pacman foe getting whacked out. Roach said the same thing about Joshua Clottey and, if Clottey had engaged, the esteemed trainer wouldn't have been wrong last March at the same venue.
But there's something desperate about Margarito, with the black shadow of the handwrap cheating incident hovering above him, now.
The other day, I asked the careful promoter Bob Arum how bigger and presumably stronger Margarito got in house "clearance" to fight Pacman.
I mean, all it takes for Manny to lose if having an off night which he is overdue for.
Arum seemed calm and untroubled. His reliance, as in past Pacquiao bouts, is on Hall Of Fame matchmaker Bruce "Southland" Trampler.
"I got a pass on this fight," Arum said. "I got a pass from Bruce."
Trampler, heir to his former mentor Teddy Brenner as the fight game's premier fightmaker, is rarely wrong.
But he's not the paragon of perfection, either. He is capable of pilot error.
But let me speculate.
What if Trampler has overestimated Manny and underestimated Tone Loc?
What if this the night that Pacquiao gets hit and get hurt or the evening when Margarito's roughouse tactics weaken the Pinoy Idol?
Arum knew, once the negative wave of Margarito coverage passed, that pundits would start ruminating as to this.
I admit it, I'm losing sleep.
I am wondering if we might, come Nov. 14, be talking about Margarito-Pacman II rather than looking ahead to, finally, the Pacman-Mayweather super bout for May, 2011.
I don't think Margarito, his head clouded by getting caught with the plaster pad inserts in the dressing room, is any hobo because Shane Mosley imposed his physical will on him.
I am convinced Margarito will be standing after 12 complete rounds.
Margarito is still potent, still capable of being not a little pebble but a big stone in Pacquiao's boxing boots.
If he is, it will be Trampler who catches hell.
I wonder if he dreams Pacquiao leaves Jinkee and gets with him,LOL