Comments Thread For: Arum Clears The Air, Explains Current Situation With Pacquiao

[jjsmyth87]

he's not a top welterweight any more. Not a top 5 at least and he'd likely lose vs both garcia and porter since you mentioned them and he definitely loses vs Thurman, Spence, and Crawford.

I disagree. Brandon Rios was making it a close fight with Garcia and we all know what Manny did to Rios. I dont believe in triangle theories but Garcia poses no more problems to Manny than Rios did. Garcia is too slow and not active enough and doesnt have good enough footwork. Manny shuts him out, it would looks a lot like the fight with Jessie Vargas. Porter I dont think is skilled enough either. Porter is a lot like Jeff Horn, uses his strength and size and roughs up his opponent. Jeff Horn fought a tremendous fight against Manny I was impressed, he had 60,000 people live and his whole country cheering him on, but I think Manny did enough to win. I dont see Porter putting on a better performance than Jeff Horn did and Manny would win a comfortable decision. Thurman I think has the combination of power, size, and athleticism to make it a 50/50 fight. Crawford and Spence would win a clear decision or possibly knock him out. Hes a lightweight fighting at 147. Ray Beltran was right if Manny fought at 140 or 135 where he should be he would probably dominate those divisions

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I disagree. Brandon Rios was making it a close fight with Garcia and we all know what Manny did to Rios. I dont believe in triangle theories but Garcia poses no more problems to Manny than Rios did. Garcia is too slow and not active enough and doesnt have good enough footwork. Manny shuts him out, it would looks a lot like the fight with Jessie Vargas. Porter I dont think is skilled enough either. Porter is a lot like Jeff Horn, uses his strength and size and roughs up his opponent. Jeff Horn fought a tremendous fight against Manny I was impressed, he had 60,000 people live and his whole country cheering him on, but I think Manny did enough to win. I dont see Porter putting on a better performance than Jeff Horn did and Manny would win a comfortable decision. Thurman I think has the combination of power, size, and athleticism to make it a 50/50 fight. Crawford and Spence would win a clear decision or possibly knock him out. Hes a lightweight fighting at 147. Ray Beltran was right if Manny fought at 140 or 135 where he should be he would probably dominate those divisions

Garcia is significantly better than Jeff horn and regardless of whether you feel pac deserved that win it was still a competitive fight. You're also underestimating the fact that pac has trouble with computer punchers (ie Marquez) and garcia is an excellent counter puncher. Garcia would likely hurt pac in my opinion at this stage of his career. Porter too rough for pac at this stage. Again, pac didn't like horns rough tactics, imagine porter. Pac was once great but as is the case with all fighters, age catches up and they can't hang with the young guns anymore.