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

[SplitSecond]

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.

where did you get the idea that anyone thinks he's going to try and fight like rigondeaux?

and yea, pacquiao boxing = fighting like he always fights, for the most part

[SaldanaCC]

Manny boxing.......?????!!!!!!
Dont know if he can do that for 12 rounds against a guy like timmy who i feel will contribute from manny trying to box for 12.

[ADP02]

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

I believe Manny is saying this because of what he is expecting of Bradley. Bradley will do like in the Marquez fight and the latter part of the Manny fight. Try to box.

Also, getting a read on Bradley's interviews, I think he wants Manny to come in so that Bradley can just box and counter.

Manny appears to be also working on cutting the ring well. If he is successful then you will see more of the hard shots.

[CholoPino]

The Bradley Pac will fight in 2 weeks time is different from the one he fought last time: improved, faster, more confident. I'm curious to know what Roach learned in Brad's fight against Provod and will use as strategy for Pac in this coming fight. Should be an interesting gameplan. I expect some fireworks.

[hugh grant]

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.

Exactly what I was thinking. Pac needs to slow Bradley down, because unless he does, Bradley can run and throw uneffective pitty patty punches all night that fool judges into thinking he is actually scoring.

Pac needs to know if he misses that head he can get a free target, because lets face it Bradley will be trying to protect that porcelain chin of his.

[hugh grant]

He will run again. So how do you stop him running. Hit his body to slow him down and make his punches even less effective as well.

[Pain~Lucy]

no need to box him just stick with being pacquiao and land those punches

[bojangles1987]

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?

What are you talking about? Pacquiao is absolutely the favorite.

[-=Shade=-]

Or just aim for that big dome of Timmeh's. Ruslan had no problem finding it.

Bradley went into that with a chip on his shoulder and something to prove... Pac just has to fight like Pac for 3 minutes a round, remember the body, and try for but not get hung up on the KO as Bradley takes a hell of a shot. It would be 'hard' and 'unlikely' for Bradley to pose much of a KO risk to Pac, so if Pac loses fighting 3 minutes a round he's officially 'old' (and Floyd will decide to fight him), or got robbed again. Bradley might have developed a bit, but not that much.

[IMDAZED]

Yawn.

Pacquiao will fight like he always does. This is a fighter who made no adjustments over the course of four fights with Marquez. And was still making the same mistakes in the fourth fight that he made years before in their first encounter. I'm sure Manny and Roach will be working on a specific "punch" which they feel will be effective against Bradley. Other than that I expect more of the same.