Comments Thread For: Pacquiao Plans a Showcase Performance With Bradley

[DeadLikeMe]

Margarito was a natural welterweight?

Do you even know what a natural welterweight is? Margarito and PWill would probably be the two furthest guys from it...jesus christ...

[Mr. Philadel]

I see it now, Pacquiao singing Gospel music with a Gospel choir backing him up as he walks down the aisle towards the ring..

LMAO

[richardt]

Do you even know what a natural welterweight is?

It is the weight that a fighter fights most of his career at. Count the number of fights he had at Welterweight. You are new to Boxing, I get that...no problem.....I won't charge you this time.

[richardt]

January 09 was Mosley and November 10 Pac is nearly 2 yrs shy 2 mths.

That is not "years", that is you being a drama queen and exaggerating. Years is plural.

[richardt]

Margo took diuretics to make 150 , do you know what that signifies ? and then he refused Cotto at 150 because he knows he cant make it , its all there if you open your eyes .

That was his choice. He tried to take off the pounds the wrong way. And I noticed you conveniently avoided Mosley and Clottey who were Welterweights. So much for Pac not fighting Welterweights crap.

[richardt]

Dont give me they are not forced.

They are not forced. Pac is not the last man on earth for them to fight. Speaking of guns, no one is forcing you to watch Pac. Since you live to hate him, don't watch his fights. Solution! And for this advice, I do charge a fee. No personal checks accepted.

[richardt]

[QUOTE=Reloaded;12190738]smaller fighter being dragged out of his division QUOTE]Lady, you really need to cut the overly feminine drama queen crap. "DRAGGED OUT OF HIS DIVISION". Why don't you just add "dragged out kicking and screaming" to your feminine verbage while you are at it. Bradley already fought at 147, drama queen.

[BennyST]

Excuses already i see. If Bradley was fighting Floyd, youd be talking about how brave floyd was for fighting unbeaten boxers who arent coming off of a loss ha ha

Sounds like you're also making excuses for why it would be some ATG win too. The fact is that Tim, while being a good champ, has some major flaws that would be exploited by an ATG quite easily.

It's no secret that he wings his punches, is open up the middle badly, can be dropped despite a good beard, has no power and is ******ly reckless at times, opening himself up to major punishment/KO opportunities from a great fighter.

Despite being good, and one of the best tests for Pac today, he's seriously flawed. It's pretty darn obvious and all of it has been exploited before but with varied success because the fighters he faced were only ok. So far, Bradley's determination has pulled him through but determination can only win you so much when you are limited as he is, especially against a supposed ATG.

It's not as if Bradley is Ray Leonard now is it?

As for Bradley being bigger, whoever said that, well, that is just ridiculous. Yes, he started his career in a higher weight class, but it doesn't mean he is bigger. In nearly every physical aspect Bradley is smaller. He's shorter and has less reach, the two single most important facets, but his body mass in general is no bigger. Pac has not been truly smaller than anyone he's faced apart from Marg and Oscar. The rest he's been the same size as, or so similar as to be completely unimportant.

He was bigger than Hatton in every way too, yet everyone, including Hatton, foolishly thought Hatton was the bigger man. Very untrue. The only thing that Hatton was bigger in was one centimeter of height. Everything else Pac had the advantage. There is this ****** notion that Pac could easily go down to 135 or something as if he is a natural lightweight. The guy has been coming in as a welterweight for nearly a decade now. In classic terms, he would have been a 147 fighter for nearly his whole career and couldn't make 135 now if he had to.

Someone like Marquez, 40 years old, moved up only to get bigger fights. Pac had to move up, because he's a natural 140-147 pound fighter. Marquez, although as tall, is a natural 126 pound fighter and could still, at 40, make 130-135 easily. He is the naturally smaller fighter, not Pac.

Bradley has no size advantage at all.

[rambov]

This fight is going to be tough for Manny. Really tough. Timmy does not have to come down in weight so he can't be drained. He has good hand speed and he is smart. The last naturally small guy Manny fought beat his ace.
Its the guys who have to get drained he does well against.

[Mike_R]

I don't understand how so many people on these forums try to discredit Pacquiao and Mayweather. It's really dumb.

Pacquiao only does well against weight drained opponents? If you honestly think this then you haven't watched very much boxing.

Manny has definitely had a luckluster year between his fights with Mosley and JMM3. And this fight will be his proving ground to show us where he stands as a fighter.

But I wish people would calm down trying to pot shot Manny (and Floyd's) accomplishments just because everyone feels the need to 'pick a side'.

Be logical- they are incredible fighters. Pacquiao is an INCREDIBLE fighter. And as far as anyone actually knows he's a clean fighter, there is no reason to believe otherwise other than feeding into the ridiculous trolling I see here day in day out.

Sorry- /rant.