Comments Thread For: Merchant: Rios is a Good Opponent For Manny Pacquiao

[jbpanama]

the only difference is duran went to 154 to fight davey. bam bam would be going to 147 to fight manny.

this will end very badly for brandon.

They told Roberto that Moore was 12-0, and Duran laughed, and said, "MAKE the FIGHT".
Anyone that thinks Duran wasen't slick, didn't see Duran/Leonard 1!!!

[TOBYLEE1]

Is Merchant on TR payroll?

Rios doesn't have a cement chin, at times Alvarado had him rethink how he was going to come in and had him stop punching at times.

Pac angles and speed would make a greater impact on Rios chin cause he is not going to see a lot of those punches comming.

It would be an exciting short fight

[The Big Dunn]

They told Roberto that Moore was 12-0, and Duran laughed, and said, "MAKE the FIGHT".
Anyone that thinks Duran wasen't slick, didn't see Duran/Leonard 1!!!

holy ****. junior gong and jbpanama agreeing witgh big dunn. the world just may be ending in 2012. lol.

your post is so true. casual fans thought duran was done. duran couldn't wait to beat the **** out of this dude.

I know merchant is an HBO guy and has to do what they tell him but cosigning this is plain wrong.

Its gonna be duran-moore at worst and arguello-mancini at best.

[goblin213]

the only difference is duran went to 154 to fight davey. bam bam would be going to 147 to fight manny.

this will end very badly for brandon.

Duran had been fighting at 154 for a couple of years when he fought Davey.

Anyways Pac-Rios is garbage

[MJ223]

Not a surprise he would say that...... Nothing to see here moving on

[KnockUTheFukOut]

If your a Pacquiao fans then yeah...Rios is a great opponent for Pacquiao

Slow, Flat Footed, Come Straight Forward...Easy Target For Pacquiao! That would be Margarito vs Pacquiao all over again

[WESS]

Is Merchant on TR payroll?

Rios doesn't have a cement chin, at times Alvarado had him rethink how he was going to come in and had him stop punching at times.

Pac angles and speed would make a greater impact on Rios chin cause he is not going to see a lot of those punches comming.

It would be an exciting short fight

Maybe Larry understands that Pac needs that look good fight so people will believe he's better than he really is? Pac needs that hype again. Badly.

Or it could be that Larry just thinks Pac is not as good as people thought he was and needs to fight lesser comp or fighters in a smaller division? Might explain why Pac hasn’t even fought a WW in his last 2 outings and it seems like he won't in his next 2 either, let alone ever fighting a WW or JMW Champion and or Top 3 in either division. It's funny we don't hear about Pac being too small any more now that he's demanding smaller fighters to move up to him...

Or it could be like you said, Larry got some cash to make the fight sound legit? It's like I said, just mention Rios' name with Floyd Mayweather's and you'll get the truth from the pactarts about just how good Rios is at WW...

[sdcluser]

Was this guy when the he spoke this crap?

Rios has low boxing IQ. Won't last 6 rds against Pacquiao.

[The Gambler1981]

Merchant is bloodthirsty so of course he would like that particular fight~ it is really only going to go one way and that is the type of fight Merchant wants to watch.

[The Big Dunn]

Duran had been fighting at 154 for a couple of years when he fought Davey.

Anyways Pac-Rios is garbage

kind of. all the fights preceeding moore were older, blown up ww's or lw's like cuevas, benitez, laing fighting at 154 because they couldn't make 147 anymore.