Will Manny Pacquiao fight some of this fight in orthodox??

[uncle pauly]

I have seen some footage of Manny hitting the mitts extensively in orthodox stance. I have never seen him do this before,...and I've watched a lot of footage of him hitting the mitts.

Could this be a part of Roach's plan?
Manny did look explosive and powerful in orthodox on the mitts.

This would be kind of Marvin Hagler-ish.

Not sure what to think on this one. It's somewhat unlikely. But I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to do it in a few of the rounds with Floyd just to switch things up.

He would then have a hard straight right to alternate with the hard straight left.

Seems to be a risky move against a brilliant fighter like Floyd.

[jas]

No chance at all

[-MAKAVELLI-]

that would be as smart as Berto doing the shoulder roll

[TRTboy]

what the ****?

[Larry the boss]

That would be down right ******

[Larry the boss]

But he does write and throw with his right hand....just a random post

[Larry the boss]

that would be as smart as Berto doing the shoulder roll

I wish he would do it more often..lol

[General STRUGG]

NAh. southpaw stance is one of PACs advantage with may why should he give that up. lol

[Southpaw93]

Being southpaw is Mannys advantage, unless he does it like for a minute and switches back to confuse floyd, but doing it for a couple rounds is not smart imo.

[uncle pauly]

If Manny attempted to fight orthodox,..I don't think it would happen until mid fight. If he does really well in the first 4-5 rounds. And there is a sense that he is ahead or has a good shot to pull off a win,..........then switching to orthodox in response to Mayweather beginning to figure him out and time him. This could concievably throw off Mayweather and make him start the figuring out process all over again.

Manny has the handspeed to pull this off,....He has to exhibit an edge in handspeed in the beginning of the fight though. If that doesn't happen then fighting his usual southpaw stance should not be deviated from.

I have a feeling Roach is going to have Manny do something a bit unusual in this fight,....and I'm not sure what it is. It could be something as simple as just going speed, high punch output,..and win the rounds one at a time. Only go for a KO very sparingly. Or he's going to do something which might be risky. We are all going to know something in the first 2 rounds of this fight. The main thing we will know is how Pacs speed stacks up.

We won't know a lot about Mayweather until rds 4,5 and 6. Because assuming that Pac DOES stack up with speed and effectiveness,...this is when we would need to see Mayweather start to become a counterpunching pain in the ass for Manny.