Comments Thread For: Garcia Has Noticed a Physical Decline in Pacquiao

[djinferno]

I've watched way too much combat sports in my life to ever say something like this.

NEVER underestimate a guy that has nothing to lose against a guy that just got KOd.

Rule #1 in combat sports.

what he said

[hectari]

Garcia and Rios cherry picking a faded legend coming off losses and a vicious KO.

[hitking]

Personally, I've seen very lil if any physical decline in Pac. Pac is one of those rare fighters that was able to carry his power up the scale while losing lil if any speed. That made him a match-up nightmare for bigger, slower, and less skilled opponents. And while he was fighting the DLHs, Hattons, Cottos, and Margaritos of the world, he looked like superman. But once he was put in the ring with more technically sound fighters, the technical flaws in his game once again were exposed. Rios' style will play right into Pac's hands and I expect Pac to look awesome. If Rios beats Pac, that in my mind will justify the "Pacquaio decline" hogwash.

[GoldenGloveLove]

Cong**** to Garcia for having working eyes.

[LAPete]

and Garcia will see a decline in Rio's brain function after Pac gets done with him.

[Verstyle]

Yet he has not noticed the slurred speech of Rios..nor did he notice enough to stop the fight with Margarito before he lost his eye?

[Russian Crushin]

Dont all fighters physically decline thru the years? Plus Pac looked his best in years in the JMM 4 fight

[royjonesjrKTFO]

Garcia and Rios cherry picking a faded legend coming off losses and a vicious KO.

Passing the Top Rank torch from Pacquiao. That's how it's done by them. Get a big name on his way out of the sport or on the decline (De La Hoya / Margarito / Morales / Cotto, etc. See the trend? They learn from the master.

[GRboxing]

Manny is a workhorse. His 80 percent is better than Rios' 120 percent. Anything less than a KO is disappointing. Rios is legitimately a punching bag

[maguirre]

Personally, I've seen very lil if any physical decline in Pac. Pac is one of those rare fighters that was able to carry his power up the scale while losing lil if any speed. That made him a match-up nightmare for bigger, slower, and less skilled opponents. And while he was fighting the DLHs, Hattons, Cottos, and Margaritos of the world, he looked like superman. But once he was put in the ring with more technically sound fighters, the technical flaws in his game once again were exposed. Rios' style will play right into Pac's hands and I expect Pac to look awesome. If Rios beats Pac, that in my mind will justify the "Pacquaio decline" hogwash.

Yeah, he's been trying to cherrypick da best technically sound fighter, but the guy kept running away. What can he do? Not to mention he fought JMM four times. Who is he going to fight?