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No doubt about It, whoever Is capable of beating him at this point Is going to work their a$$ off to do It. I was watching the video that was posted a few days ago with some footage of Manny doing mitt work with Roach and the guy's speed, foot work and movement are still astounding. If you wouldn't know any better you would think he was 30 years old.
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Imo Manny has looked somewhat old in the ring for years now.
I remember thinking he was old in the first Bradley fight and that was ages ago.Comment
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This.
He looked a shadow of his best self, feinting slower than ever, moving around the ring in a manner where he seemed to imitate his older self, it was a clear, dominat victory but one in which Pac was playing at being Pac.
It's a part of boxing that fighters in the latter stages of their careers can literally age over night or over a period of few months. Pac agains tBradley still looked terrific (nowhere near prime) but agaisnt Vargas, looked so different.
Horn is not the guy to expose this old Pac but someone like TC or Thurman could, although the latter is nowhere near the boxer he thinks he is lolComment
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June 28, 2017:
Pacquiao, 38, who has designs on someday running for president of the Philippines, said he would like to fight at home again before his career is over.
"We're discussing fighting in my country," Pacquiao said. "We're working on that."
By having Pacquiao fight in the Philippines, don't expect him to fight a big name, Arum said. The welterweight division is loaded with talent, including titleholders Keith Thurman and Errol Spence Jr. as well as former titleholders Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter, all of whom are associated with Al Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions, which rarely does business with Arum.
Instead, Arum said one opponent Pacquiao could fight is the Top Rank-promoted Konstantin Ponomarev (32-0, 13 KOs), 24, of Russia, who is not well known but scored his biggest win, a split decision against then-undefeated Brad Solomon, on the undercard of Pacquiao's third fight with Timothy Bradley Jr. in April 2016.
"One guy we could match Manny with is Ponomarev. He's a very tough kid. He's undefeated and he's a good fighter, but there could be others," Arum said.
Arum said he did not think it would make financial sense to put Pacquiao on pay-per-view against an opponent such as Thurman or Garcia.
http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...-says-bob-arum
If he's not going to fight Crawford, Thurman, Spence, Porter, Danny Garcia, Mikey Garcia, or even Amir Khan, then he should fight the Russian in the Philippines and then retire!Comment
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FM did. I knew Manny was old when Floyd finally decided to fight him. lolComment
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Shows PAC is a truly great. He's been koed and he's old and past prime who's level has dropped. Although his level has dropped people haven't taken advantage.
Other past greats the Brandon Rios and guys PAC fought since jmm loss would have been able to take advantage. But pacs still good enough to control themComment
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He trained hard and he's in shape but when he stops his cherry-picking and fights and a leak and I'll name just Thurman and Spence both of whom will stop him then his old age will come upon him...Comment
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