why is pacquaio fighting rios and not alvarado?

[littlemac]

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The surest way to see if Rios is all Hype is to put him in front of MaRQUEZ. If Marquez had trouble with pillow puncher Diaz how much more could a Rios possibly do.

You could put Rios with Provodnikov and Bradley you still wouldn't know who would win. Cross over to Golden Boy, Guerrero and Rios would be a gore fest. Ortiz-Rios would be a mismatch. Khan Rios would be a laugh fest.

One defeat and people say Rios is all hype.

Agreed, happening with a lot of fighters-

Styles make fights and lately it seems like because one fighter had a bad outing or isn't as technically skilled as another boxer- they're counted out right away and labeled as a bum.

Lot of fans discredit the come forward "mexican" warrior style of fighting as no skills when it's as legitimate of a style as sticking and moving. It's part of the game, a lot of boxers wouldn't be able to put pressure on fighters like Rios does as well as take the punches he takes without going down. Takes a lot of heart and will, and that alone can make a fight competitive.

If Pac is fine after that KO with his usual conditioning, he should make short work of Rios- like Pac-Margartio. That's a big IF we don't know tho-

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that said if the injury was the real concern, its still a concern 5 weeks before

Dirk Diggler UK's point was correct about the cancelling of the Macau card being graver. Also, and I may be wrong on this, but I think that when they were originally setting up this fight that the date was to be in October rather than November.

We get it. Bob wants an easy fight for manny where he gets a huge KO

Even though I think Rios is made for Pacquiao, as is Alvarado, and I think Pacquiao will batter Rios to a stoppage I don't think it is by any stretch of the imagination an easy fight. For a start there is no way a fight against an opponent as good as Rios could ever be easy, especially with his style. Secondly we don't really know whether Pacquiao will be in the correct condition, of body and mind, to get the win. Far from being easy this is actually a pretty gutsy fight to take coming off a devastating knockout loss. He could have taken an easier tune up fight first against some mediocre fighter. I suppose though that Pacquiao needs the larger money that will be generated against Rios rather than against a lesser opponent.

I don't think fighting Rios rather than Alvarado is particularly odd.

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Dirk Diggler UK's point was correct about the cancelling of the Macau card being graver. Also, and I may be wrong on this, but I think that when they were originally setting up this fight that the date was to be in October rather than November.



Even though I think Rios is made for Pacquiao, as is Alvarado, and I think Pacquiao will batter Rios to a stoppage I don't think it is by any stretch of the imagination an easy fight. For a start there is no way a fight against an opponent as good as Rios could ever be easy, especially with his style. Secondly we don't really know whether Pacquiao will be in the correct condition, of body and mind, to get the win. Far from being easy this is actually a pretty gutsy fight to take coming off a devastating knockout loss. He could have taken an easier tune up fight first against some mediocre fighter. I suppose though that Pacquiao needs the larger money that will be generated against Rios rather than against a lesser opponent.

I don't think fighting Rios rather than Alvarado is particularly odd.

Completely agree with this