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First of all lets look at his six defeats... Vernon Forrest twice, Winky Wright twice, Miguel Cotto and Floyd Mayweather Junior.
Lets start with Forrest, a very big guy for 147 lbs, polar opposite of Manny and has size and reach and a nice jab to be able to keep Mosley out of range.
Winky Wright also has a much bigger physical stature than Manny and even Mosley himself and once again, an excellent jab. In case you don't box yourself, having a hard, stiff jab is very hard to counter and for you to set up your punches yourself.
Miguel Cotto, another guy who has that strong, stiff jab, I am of the firm belief that this is Mosley's weakness. Even in the second De La Hoya fight I believe he lost mainly due to Oscar's jab and defense was much improved from the first fight. Anyway, Cotto another guy who has the jab and surprisingly, Cotto has good upper body movement (i suppose you could call it good defense) at slipping punches.
Floyd Mayweather is not known for his jab but only because he is so well rounded and one of the best fighters of all time but his jab is also an excellent one which comes at such a blinding speed it's hard to set up your own punches, I don't know If I've ever seen Shane so perplexed in the ring before as in the case in their fight. To go with that jab is some more extraordinarily defense.
All of the above have more size and reach than Pacquiao and more important of all, a much stronger, faster jab than him too. Pacquiao tends to use his little straight left as his jabbing weapon but his own, right hand jabs do not carry the same impact of all the aboves. So it's all very well that this can stop Mosley coming forward, but what can Mosley do to beat Pacquiao himself? Mosley has one punch knock out power, all of the above got hit and hit hard at least one stage or another. Forrest and Winky were big enough to shake them off, Cotto was in his prime and fought the fight of his life but even still he got hit hard in stages and we all saw what happened to Mayweather in that second round.
The Sergio Mora fight? (draw) Not completely irrelevant but I think you can put it to one side when picking a winner in this fight, Pacquiao does simply not have the size dimensions of Mora nor the style.
Lets start with Forrest, a very big guy for 147 lbs, polar opposite of Manny and has size and reach and a nice jab to be able to keep Mosley out of range.
Winky Wright also has a much bigger physical stature than Manny and even Mosley himself and once again, an excellent jab. In case you don't box yourself, having a hard, stiff jab is very hard to counter and for you to set up your punches yourself.
Miguel Cotto, another guy who has that strong, stiff jab, I am of the firm belief that this is Mosley's weakness. Even in the second De La Hoya fight I believe he lost mainly due to Oscar's jab and defense was much improved from the first fight. Anyway, Cotto another guy who has the jab and surprisingly, Cotto has good upper body movement (i suppose you could call it good defense) at slipping punches.
Floyd Mayweather is not known for his jab but only because he is so well rounded and one of the best fighters of all time but his jab is also an excellent one which comes at such a blinding speed it's hard to set up your own punches, I don't know If I've ever seen Shane so perplexed in the ring before as in the case in their fight. To go with that jab is some more extraordinarily defense.
All of the above have more size and reach than Pacquiao and more important of all, a much stronger, faster jab than him too. Pacquiao tends to use his little straight left as his jabbing weapon but his own, right hand jabs do not carry the same impact of all the aboves. So it's all very well that this can stop Mosley coming forward, but what can Mosley do to beat Pacquiao himself? Mosley has one punch knock out power, all of the above got hit and hit hard at least one stage or another. Forrest and Winky were big enough to shake them off, Cotto was in his prime and fought the fight of his life but even still he got hit hard in stages and we all saw what happened to Mayweather in that second round.
The Sergio Mora fight? (draw) Not completely irrelevant but I think you can put it to one side when picking a winner in this fight, Pacquiao does simply not have the size dimensions of Mora nor the style.
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