Comments Thread For: Roach: Pacquiao Had Killer Instinct, But a Little Slower

[Los Zetas]

I was impressed with his decision making in this fight..he fought smart and choose his spots and it worked. Both men really went for it early on, it was a great fight. I like this more calculated Pacquaio tho...all that reckless shhh made the outcomes of his fights questionable at times. Both men made a varying amount of adjustments in this fight. He really needs to work on blocking right hands tho..it was a right hand that Marquez dropped him with the first time and then K.O.'d him with...that's where he is most vulnerable even when fighting smartly. Bradley did well trying to lure him into traps and into making mistakes but pacquaio was smart enough not to feed into it or what the crowd was roaring for. He fought his fight and his opponent fought his. Hats off to both men.

That's true but Bradley did work on that right hand a lot from watching him train.

Pac did figure it out and ducked or waited and countered with the hook or even a jab more. It still landed, but when you attack as much as Manny, punches will land.

His resistance seems to be worse though. Bradley hurt him...

[millcitymauler]

When Pac got his hands going, they looked pretty fast, however, he looked like he was a bit slow on pulling the trigger when the openings presented themselves.
What I noticed, was the lack of head movement... He better stay far away from Mayweather seeing how easy it was for Bradley to counter him on the inside. Manny looked like a counter-puncher's dream last night.

[Da Machine]

Pac is probably fine. It's just that his opponent wasn't a slow walk over.

[Tarl of Bristol]

Pacquiao did look slower than in the Rios fight. Something was off about him.


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Afetr the fight Manny said that he had cramps in both legs. Also I think Manny still over analyzed it a little bit because he had Bradley in trouble a number of times and backed off.

[radioraheem]

Afetr the fight Manny said that he had cramps in both legs. Also I think Manny still over analyzed it a little bit because he had Bradley in trouble a number of times and backed off.

He really said that? He's still having cramps?

[noStylez]

Yeah he did look noticeably slower but to Bradley's credit he came on early.

[stuff jones]

He did look a little slow. Even when he fired off that 10 punch flurry when Bradley was against the ropes, the punches didn't look as fast or explosive as we're used to seeing.

[noStylez]

When Pac got his hands going, they looked pretty fast, however, he looked like he was a bit slow on pulling the trigger when the openings presented themselves.
What I noticed, was the lack of head movement... He better stay far away from Mayweather seeing how easy it was for Bradley to counter him on the inside. Manny looked like a counter-puncher's dream last night.

When he had Bradley on the ropes he had flashes of his old self. He boxed pretty well and his style somewhat has changed he adapted after getting clocked with a few clean punches.

[Dr Rumack]

He's been slowing down for the past few years but I didn't see any major difference between his speed last night and what it's been for the last few fights.

The big difference in his punching is that he's much more of an arm puncher now than he once was. He just doesn't twist his body into a number of successive shots as he once did. Bradley's own reflexes and speed were a factor, but honestly I thought it was the same against Rios.

You have to remember too that he's not a big guy to be trading leather at welterweight. He's more reliant on craftiness now, whereas before he was a force of nature and would just let it all hang out, and that was normally enough. Not anymore though.

[Doctor_Tenma]

This is the worse I've ever seen Manny look and this was the ******est I've seen Bradley fight. It s weird because Pacquiao had the most vulnerable Marquez in front of him and lost, and in this case Bradley had the most vulnerable looking Manny and lost. What the hell?