Comments Thread For: Pacquiao: I Need To Outbox and Outspeed Tim Bradley

[PPAAKKMMAANN]

Pac is already faster and boxes way better than Bradley. Easy KO win for Pac.

[DeadLikeMe]

Why can't he? He's still fast and his movement is still great.

Compared to Rios. Not compared to the elite guys. Even a slowed Pac can still face **** the Rios' of the world. It is a a top guy like Bradley who will be the true test of if Pac is back. He better have been doing that TRT along with his usual HGH and EPO, else this is the end of the pacman.

[SplitSecond]

He better get back to punching his opponents body...all that head hunting is something they are all now ready for. He's not been the same since he started exclusively looking for the head shot...he's gotta slow bradley down to the body and then look for the knockout or he's in for a long long night. Definitely not a betting fight by any means.

great post

if pacquiao wants to win this big, he needs to go to the body to truely seperate himself from bradley

but that was also one of the main strategies vs rios and it was barely there, had he gone to the body a little more there he could have stopped rios

[B-Bomber]

you think its predictable? i mean it took jmm 4 fights to figure it out lol, imo pac outboxed him in the first fight

Pac is a great offensive fighter , he the ability to create angles and to set ambushes. If he was to focus on pure -boxing- though ,than yes, he'd be predictable with his double or triple jab, left hand and move.

As for JMM, it didn't take him 3 fights to figure out Manny 's boxing style, what created him problems were Manny's speed of hand and foot , and the forementioned ability to strike from unusual angles.

In my opinion though when Manny says "I need to out-box and out-speed Bradley " he doesn't mean that he's going to try to fight like Rigondeaux, more simply he won't get too reckless.

Anyway, I think Pac will get the decision this time, but it's probably going to be a close fight with Bradley working more to the body and Pac landing the more "flashy" shots.
In the first fight Pac fought 30 seconds per round, that is what costed him the W imo.

[Jloro]

Pac needs to try to catch him with hard shots not outbox him imo at least

[SplitSecond]

Yes it is!!!

Watch all of Pac's fights and he has the same repetitive pattern of boxing with very little variation.

if he was that obvious he would be a sht boxer, not an atg

plz dont say it's his speed neither, if your predictable, unless you can move at the speed of light of something close, it's too easy

you can throw the same punch all the time, boxing is about timing and set up anyway, mikey garcia for the most part will only throw a jab and a straight, not that unlike pacquiao, except garcia has a strong jab to set up his offense, keeping you off balance and keeping you defensive for him to attack with little worry to a counter punch, pacquiao has a baiting/fient jab for the most part(like rigondeaux) until he uses it after his cross

[RSBonos]

This is the first time in a while that Pacquiao doesn't go in as the favorite, even though he clearly was robbed the first fight.

I can't remember the last time he wasn't favorite to win. Was it DLH or Cotto?

He is a 2-1 favorite.

[Beercules]

Compared to Rios. Not compared to the elite guys. Even a slowed Pac can still face **** the Rios' of the world. It is a a top guy like Bradley who will be the true test of if Pac is back. He better have been doing that TRT along with his usual HGH and EPO, else this is the end of the pacman.

I don't really look into the Rios fight, before Juan put Pac to bed Pac was woopin dat ass. Juan is elite isn't he?

And let's be honest, the first Bradley fight wasn't close. This one will be closer, but Pacquiao should still be able to win comfortably.

[B-Bomber]

if he was that obvious he would be a sht boxer

plz dont say it's his speed neither, if your predictable, unless you can move at the speed of light of something close, it's too easy

you can throw the same punch all the time, boxing is about timing and set up anyway, mikey garcia for the most part will only throw a jab and a straight, not that unlike pacquiao, except garcia has a strong jab to set up his offense, pacquiao just has a baiting/fient jab for the most part until it he uses it after his cross

As I said in my previous post, if Pac tries to fight like Rigondeaux, or Lara if you prefer, than yes, he'd be preticable. But Manny is not a "pure boxer", it is not his style.

He's not going to be predictable, simply because he will fight as he always fights, only he won't get too reckless because Bradley can box and could start to counter. That's what he means by " out box and out speed Bradley" imo.

[Evol]

Manny's boxing skills is very underrated.