Comments Thread For: Manny Pacquiao Explains His Lack of Knockouts Since 2009

[Biolink]

what a riveting debate, being pedantic about your definition of what you think chin or toughness is.

fascinating please educate me more.

in all seriousness, bore off will ya.

An iron chin rarely gets buzzed. Even before Provodnikov Bradley has been on the ropes before against Kendall Holt. He said he was completely out against Holt and his head ****ing against the canvas woke him back up when he was knocked down.

Again YDKSAB. Back to Philboxing with you.

[LaBéstia]

Hum, NO he did not KO Margarito. There has been a bunch of comments before this one talking the whole point of this thread. PAC man has not KO'd anyone since 2009... that's a loooong time. But people... c'mon... it's not just about the testing... When Pacquiao came to the states he was very hungry both literally and with his career.... he wanted to make a name for himself no matter the cost, he already sacrificed everything he had... They were billing him as the next Mike Tyson, as a devastating sensational KO artist... the he fought Marquez, although his power was evident... he was a puncher on those light weight classes...he KD 3 times but didn't hurt him enough to KO him or even win the fight... but for me the biggest thing is when he soundly LOST to Erik "El Terrible" Morales... Morales schooled him, Pacquiao never hurt him, Reyes or no Reyes gloves it was obvious Pac was not going to KO Morales with one punch... so he loses, he cries on the ring, all his hopes, dreams and fantasies start to fall down, what does he do? He starts juicing because once you're in the big stage there is no going back for a crazy poor Phillipino dude... then what, he KO's Morales in 3? He is against random drug testing? He goes up in weight more than any other fighter in history and wins? And there are people out there that still believe he was never on the juice? Grow up. These people know that if they get caught they'll lose everything , including their legacy... a good cheater doesn't get caught... and doesn't cheat every single time... just because he wasn't tested in let's say 2012 that doesn't mean he juiced . I'm sure he skipped the shakes a few fights,... PED gives you an edge on a lot of aspects, not just power... he still won most fights... and most certainly because of the juice.
And regardless of him not Knocking out Margarito or whomever... just look at Cotto's face and then look at Bradley's face.... Bradley didn't even get bruised... We can all agree that Provodnikov hurt Bradley way more than Pac did, yes? Cotto's face looked worse than when Margarito used rocks on his gloves...

[Tobi.G]

Manny is right, hes a great fighter and he can only succeed at 147 because hes an alltime great but hes always mutch smaller than his opponents. Even Mayweather who comes from lower weights too was physically bigger than him.

[Tobi.G]

He's small and he's old.

It's really that simple.

We're all so used to Pac at welterweight that everyone forgot how insane it sounded when he first moved up the scale that far.

Everyone also forgets that Pac was already HoF status just based off of his resume at super-featherweight, years before he ever made the move up.

Absolutely. His legacy is written and a win against Floyd would have just been a bonus. Fight should have happened 5 years earlier anyway.

[Robbie Barrett]

Absolutely. His legacy is written and a win against Floyd would have just been a bonus. Fight should have happened 5 years earlier anyway.

5 years earlier when Pacquiao turned down the fight because he wanted a 25 day cut off from drug testing?

Pacquiao fans always come up with it should have happened 5 years earlier. They're right it should but lets not forget why it didn't. It didn't because Pacquiao didn't want to do random testing and then wanted cut-off dates. The blame is on Pacquiao. He avoided that fight, fear of losing or getting caught take your pick.