Margarito looks strong in training, but who the hell is he sparring with?

[Iceta Lives]

This makes me think 2 things.
1. Maybe he just can't find somebody to emulate Pac.
2. He is getting handled in sparring and they aren't showing it like was the case with Ricky Hatton.

I gotta say this looks suspect on his part.

[Allucard]

This makes me think 2 things.
1. Maybe he just can't find somebody to emulate Pac.
2. He is getting handled in sparring and they aren't showing it like was the case with Ricky Hatton.

I gotta say this looks suspect on his part.

I kinda suspect the same. When they showed a little 10 second clip i wasn't overly impressed and I suspect he's being handled in sparring. He's a slow dude who throw lots of punches and used to have a granite chin. Hardly the type who will ever look impressive in sparring anyway. They try to hide it showing even more photos of his abs and hard training / weight, etc. I'm sure everything which don't really matter will be very ready and visible in Margarito but the one thing we can base on the most to accurately predict a fight is sparring. I see Pacquiao hitting Margarito at will, sad to say.

[-PANDA-]

hbo being a lot more selective about the recorded footage as been very apparent....

tony= mostly impressive footage
pac=no impressive footage

[Double A 215]

I kinda suspect the same. When they showed a little 10 second clip i wasn't overly impressed and I suspect he's being handled in sparring. He's a slow dude who throw lots of punches and used to have a granite chin. Hardly the type who will ever look impressive in sparring anyway. They try to hide it showing even more photos of his abs and hard training / weight, etc. I'm sure everything which don't really matter will be very ready and visible in Margarito but the one thing we can base on the most to accurately predict a fight is sparring. I see Pacquiao hitting Margarito at will, sad to say.

Supposedly he's got 3 small quick lefty prospects in camp with him... Sergio Martinez declined to help him, he still got beef with Tony from their fight 10 yrs ago...

IDK if he's getting handled in sparring, but I do know that he looks fantastic and focused and thats what we want...

[IIG]

Cleotis "Mookie" Pendarvis
Ricardo Williams
Austin Trout

There may be another one, I'm not sure. Both Pendarvis and Williams are speedy southpaws, and of course Williams was an Olympic silver medalist in 2000. Trout is a big, undefeated JMW.

[Iceta Lives]

Cleotis "Mookie" Pendarvis
Ricardo Williams
Austin Trout

There may be another one, I'm not sure. Both Pendarvis and Williams are speedy southpaws, and of course Williams was an Olympic silver medalist in 2000. Trout is a big, undefeated JMW.

Okay. So since those guys are sparring with him then why won't 24/7 show any of the sessions is what I wanna know? And Trout was Margarito's sparring partner in the past.

[Allucard]

Supposedly he's got 3 small quick lefty prospects in camp with him... Sergio Martinez declined to help him, he still got beef with Tony from their fight 10 yrs ago...

IDK if he's getting handled in sparring, but I do know that he looks fantastic and focused and thats what we want...

Roy Jones Jr. if he were to fight tomorrow would still look shredded. Margarito has great abs and trains his ass of, that's all we know for sure. Now does he have the timing, does he have the reflexes, can he handle being hit with 8 punch combos flush and still come forward?
I only give Tony a chance if he can handle Pacquiao's power and keeps coming forward because i know Pacquiao (much like what i said about Cotto in 08 before the Margarito fight) can't fight going back.

[Bastian Loc]

Sparring footage is ****ing boring, nobody cares to see that ****. 24/7 is about the greater sum.

Tony and his camp are entertaining as hell. Sparring partners don't even matter anyway, Tony is gonna rip Pac to shreds.

Pac could spar with Santa Claus and it won't make a difference.