Pacquiao: "My ideal weight is 140, I can still make 135"

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Just because you rehydrate to the WW limit doesn't necessarily mean that you are a WW. It doesn't work that way.

People don't seem to understand this.



Oh look, Marquez is bigger than Floyd

[Xi_]

Just because you rehydrate to the WW limit doesn't necessarily mean that you are a WW. It doesn't work that way.

are people that ignorant? pac is a full fledged ww now and so is floyd. quit trying to make pac out to be some tiny little ww cause it took him couple years longer to grow into his body.

[pickpocket]

Anyone else think he just wants to add another KO to his resume (finally) and the only way is to go back down to 140 where he had his greatest KO with Ricky Hatton?

Well, that, and there isn't much for him in welterweight aside from Mayweather and the Marquez/Alvarado winner.

[Xi_]

Pacquiao was weight draining Mayweather wasn't.







1lb more 3 divisions higher.

exactly.....he was literally weight draining himself.

[straightleft]

First of all I'm 100% Pac can make 140 safely and easily. WHY? That's a good question. You see Pac consumes unusually high calories to maintain his already low weight during his training fighting at welterweight. Consuming normal calorie intake during his training, the 140 will come to him naturally.

[TOBYLEE1]

I don't believe that. He might make the weight but it would affect him. There is no way at this stage of his life and career after all these years fighting above 140 that he will make the JrWW limit and be at his best.

[ADP02]

People don't seem to understand this.



Oh look, Marquez is bigger than Floyd

True ...... they just don't get it.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I don't believe that. He might make the weight but it would affect him. There is no way at this stage of his life and career after all these years fighting above 140 that he will make the JrWW limit and be at his best.

He only makes welter due to the high calorie diet he takes to keep mass on.. If he moved to a more traditional diet program, he would be walking around at 140 and should make it pretty easily... It's just a switch in diets.. Going to 135 would be more difficult but not 140.. He doesn't even cut weight to make welter, so changing calorie intake, and actually cutting weight week of fight, shouldn't be a huge deal IMO

[Augustane]

I feel like this might be posturing to make a Provodnikov fight at 140 or Mikey Garcia fight at 135 happen. It wouldn't hurt to see Pacquiao claiming more titles in different weight classes. I also think the extra work needed to go down in a lower weight might make him a little more explosive than we've seen lately.

[Heretic]

He only makes welter due to the high calorie diet he takes to keep mass on.. If he moved to a more traditional diet program, he would be walking around at 140 and should make it pretty easily... It's just a switch in diets.. Going to 135 would be more difficult but not 140.. He doesn't even cut weight to make welter, so changing calorie intake, and actually cutting weight week of fight, shouldn't be a huge deal IMO

The extra-high calorie intake was just an exaggeration. As early as the Larios fight in 2006, Manny was already rehydrating to 144+. You can see how sunken his eyes and cheeks look on weigh-ins. Leading up to the Dela Hoya fight, Buboy claimed that he got into an argument with Ariza because the plyometrics program that Ariza had been implementing was slowing Pacquiao down. His performances against Dela Hoya, Hatton and Cotto proved otherwise however, enough for Floyd's camp and fans to call for extra drug testing. I won't believe everything that comes out of Pacquiao's camp.

And contrary to the claims made by other posters, Pacquiao actually leads a very active lifestyle. He is constantly involved with sports festivals, makes it a point to jog and shadow box everytime he wakes up. His work as a congressman doesn't impede his athletic life whatsoever because he is a nearly a ghost employee in the House of Congress. As a matter of fact, he has the most absences.