Pacquiao's CLOSE friend: "Manny will fight Sergio Martinez"

[chinoy]

i would love Pac to fight Martinez but Pac and Roach already stated he will not fight at Jr Middleweight anymore.

[hugh grant]

The on ly way i see Pac fighting Sergio is if Sergio beats Floyd first. Then Pac will show Floyd how you are supposed to deal with the Martinezs of this world.

[magnificent]

Not because Sergio is too big but because Sergio is big AND good.

He is no Antonio Margarito.

well said,

[Ray*]

I would applaud Pac if he fights Martinez at 154, For me that would be his first risky fight in years and i would pick him to beat Martinez.

[joelab75]

154 lbs is really unfair for Pac. he weighed 144.5 lbs his last fight. if ever the fight get made Pac would be giving up atleast 8-10 lbs in weigh in alone. As much as i'd like them to fight, they are 2 divisions apart. if you think Sergio weighing 170 lbs and Manny weighing 150 lbs on fight night is reasonable then you are not a true boxing fan.

Win or Lose Pac would get hurt really bad because of the size difference. Try to let a guy with 20 lbs on you punch you in the face a couple of times and see whats going to happen. its just not right.

[NORMAN BLACK]

they can fight @ 154 and PAC will weight 145 in the scales and 155 lbs @ fight night

[ThePrince]

I would applaud Pac if he fights Martinez at 154, For me that would be his first risky fight in years and i would pick him to beat Martinez.

man the way people talk about manny, he must be the baddest dude who ever walked the earth. In '08 he was a featherweight. From '09-'11 he's taken on hatton, cotto, clottey, margarito, and mosley in succession from 140-150. But he hasn't taken a risk in that time? Only one who is shot is mosley and he can still knock you the **** out before he gasses in the 4th.

Please tell me who the **** was riskier at the welter neighborhood than hatton, clottey, cotto, and margarito at the time manny took them on... A year or 2 removed from being a featherweight. Do i really need to bump all the threads from when those fights were first being discussed and virtually everyone thought dlh, margs, cotto, etc were all too big and too strong for manny and would ko him easily and then people rewrote history only after manny demolished them(sound familiar? Like deja vu ).

So tell me who those risks were that he didn't take. I'm dying to know...

[Fighting Pride]

No he won't. The winner of Margarito/Cotto will probably fight Martinez. Maybe if they can give him a good fight it will make sense, with Manny being given some chance. If Martinez looks too strong for them and destroys them then we should forget about it.

[Twako]

sigh...unorthodox =/= good punching technique. manny is a great puncher, his technique isnt great. ppl cant exploit his sloppiness because he's always so fast that recovers, which is also amazing. but like i said, no trainer would tell his boxer to look at manny as an example of proper punching technique. anyways i hate discussing these things with u guys because u take it so personal.

and mannys movement is cool, but sergio's is better imo. he actually moves his head.

try to watch pac-morales2 again. cant remember which round where merchant AND steward both agreed that manny's punch delivery is better than erik's.

[Seleção No. 13]

Team Pac just instigated their interest in this fight by uploading that vid on youtube. If they weren't interested, they wouldn't have shown that clip at all...