Comments Thread For: Pacquiao Vows To Batter Horn in First, To Remind Him of 'Ninth'

[Larry the boss]

So Manny is going to come out and blow his load and be tired the rest of the fight?

[spenz]

You all must have forgotten Manny Pacquiao on his one dimensional days used to go to war and win by sheer will alone. But the skill he developed throughout the years had made him forgotten who he truly was and after the knockout he suffered from Marquez in their 4th fight he totally lost the warrior spirit and turned into a counter puncher which he's surprisingly excellent on it. He could be elusive while going forward if he wants to and proved that ultimately on the fight of the century when he made floyd mayweather missed so much while he is the one moving forward that it made the fight boring. Floyd was supposed to pick him apart ala floyd vs marquez but floyd found out he could not do it with Manny. Every time he threw big hard punches even just for a moment he was met by a counter punch from Pacquiao which is surprisingly too fast and accurate than he expected, he did this every now and then but pacquiao only found an opening. So floyd made adjustment and threw mostly jabs throughout the fight, just softly touching up pacquiao's covered gloves it doesn't matter if it's only grazing or mostly short on the target but always mindful of the distance between him and pacquiao and always looking busy in eyes of the judges. Trusting that it will be converted as clean effective punching points by the judges and they did. This is why Floyd is a genius he made adjustment. The fans find the fight boring but it remains as my favorite fight up to date and I watched it so many times and every time i see it i always see something new. The level of technicality in that fight surpassed my expectation and totally blew me away until this day.

Anyway, I think in the rematch you will finally see the old blood and guts pacquiao, It was triggered when he smelled how own blood once again in the first horn fight reminding him of the first morales fight, a warrior needs only to be reminded of what it was when he was on the battlefield and he will return to what he used to be. But not to be too poetic, I think due to age pacquiao is already a step slow to what he used and capable to do and Jeff Horn is a guy so big and strong physically that anything pacquiao throws he might handle it and continue moving forward. Pacquiao must knew this but the warrior in him is making him stubborn. There will be blood once again in the rematch and maybe Freddy is right, this is it for manny.

[Mike_R]

I will tell you again....maybe you will get it this time. A RIGHT HOOK DOES NOT EXIST FROM AN ORTHODOX STANDING POSITION> Period.

Semantics.