I notice Manny Pacquiao always gets his butt kicked in sparring

[hectari]

But on fight night he tears it up. Anyone else find this strange? When you watch Pac sparring he lets his sparring partners hit him, and looks like crap and gets toyed with by Karim Mayfield and young boys like Benevidiz and that Irish guy Kavanaugh.

But in the actual fight he is on point and very crisp. Its strange really, how does he go from looking sluggish and sloppy in sparring to being very fast and alert in the fight?

[Dinamita 03]

But on fight night he tears it up. Anyone else find this strange? When you watch Pac sparring he lets his sparring partners hit him, and looks like crap and gets toyed with by Karim Mayfield and young boys like Benevidiz and that Irish guy Kavanaugh.

But in the actual fight he is on point and very crisp. Its strange really, how does he go from looking sluggish and sloppy in sparring to being very fast and alert in the fight?

He's a gamer.

[Daylyt]

Sparring is just Sparring.

Brandon Rios beat up Marcos Maidana in sparring you think it means anything in a real fight?

[hectari]

Sparring is just Sparring.

Brandon Rios beat up Marcos Maidana in sparring you think it means anything in a real fight?

Well Maidana and Rios spar like they fight, it was a toe to toe war, but Pac looks like crap in sparring. Seriously he gets popped over and over with jabs, and just walks forward and adjusts his head gear and shorts over and over in his sparring. You would never think the guy was a world champ the way he gets humiliated by his sparmates.

[Mike D]

It's just different when the lights are on.

You have guys in all of the other sports every single year tear it up in their respective sports' preseasons -- but when the lights come on and the games count, they disappear. And vice versa.

[TRTboy]

That's because a lot of pros, sparring fighters are gym fighters. Meaning they look so good in the gym but fight night they look completely different.

And pac looks to be the complete opposite where he kind of takes it easy in sparring but when he is under the bright lines he always brings his A game.

[racer59]

Manny's a grower not a shower.

[Inkanyamba]

The only thing he tore up in the Marquez fight were his chonies.

[intoccabile]

Well Maidana and Rios spar like they fight, it was a toe to toe war, but Pac looks like crap in sparring. Seriously he gets popped over and over with jabs, and just walks forward and adjusts his head gear and shorts over and over in his sparring. You would never think the guy was a world champ the way he gets humiliated by his sparmates.

They show you what they want you to see.

Yo udont see pac destroying his work in sparring because they don't want you to see it.

[DARKSEID]

The only thing he tore up in the Marquez fight were his chonies.

And here's Pacquiao's biggest fan on cue lol

When was the last time you opened a Pac thread and this guy wasn't posting in it?