Comments Thread For: Matthysse Unfazed, Feels Very Ready For 'Southpaw' Pacquiao

[Bobby Shaw]

WBA "regular" welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse is a week away from the biggest fight of his entire career, when he faces eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao at Axiata Arena in Malaysia on July 15 [July 14 in America].
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2 things about this fight. How much is left of Mathysse and how clean Pacquiao is. If Mathysse still has anything in the tank and Pacquiao is clean then this fight won't go the distance.

[JuniorTorres720]

Yeah, it’s officially on ESPN+ which is the $5 a month app. I guess Arum couldn’t help but get people to pay money for this even if it’s only $5 a month. A part of me wants to try the app out though to see what all the fuss is about. I’ll likely just do the free trial for this fight though & see how I like it.

Yeah just noticed. Finally we get confirmation. But it's a cool app if you're a sports junkie. I tried the free app with the Crawford Horn fight. You got a lot of old-school boxing with new ones as well. Great quality of course. They have good boxing content and that's really the only reason I'd get it.

[dibzvincent143]

i think you guys are looking too hard into the marquez ko. that punch would have put anyone down.

i know pac is not who he used to be, but i think his chin is still some what solid. the punch he took from the bradley fight is no different than any of the punches he's taken, even early on in his career.

when bradley landed, it kinda popped manny back, but check out the earlier marquez fight when marquez landed that punch that made manny do the stanky leg. he didnt go down but that punch still made him jump up off the canvas just like the punch from bradley.

if his chin is that far gone, he wouldnt have survive for this long. after the marquez ko, he's taken solid full on punches from rios, bradley, vargas, horn, etc. although those guys arent known for being heavy puncher, my point is that if manny's chin is that far gone then he would have went down from any of those punches from those guys mention.

look at guys like roy jones, that's the definition of a chin that's been cracked, when you're getting ko by nobody. until this happens to manny, his chin is still there.

No just real talk bro. Matthysse is the hardest puncher he’ll ever face at this point of his career. Idk maybe prime dlh/cotto had the same power or more.
But right now matthysse is.
Pacquiao’s style in full form should always be paired with a good chin to be successful since he’s making a lot of unbalance moves more often than not when he fights.
When it comes to power alone its quite a big difference from bradley vargas horn to Matthysse.
His system might not be in for it anymore. Can he avoid a solid hail mary or whatever shot to the chin for the entire 12 rounds? Well, I certainly hope so.

Roy is obviously far more shot, and has worse boxing fundamentals than current Pac.
He don’t play defense while Pac has been cautious in his few outings and there’s a reason for that.

Prime Pac would have blasted a face first Horn maybe inside the first 5 rounds. But instead he folded and allowed Horn to do this bs moves.

If Pac fights the right fight and avoid mistakes, he peppers Matthysse with what’s left of his speed.

[pasawayako]

this will be a fight of the year!

yeah. i can't wait already.

[allenfred]

Lol, not even. Some well respected boxing rankings have Matthysse as a top 10 welterweight while Alvarado (Pacquiao's would be opponent) is ranked in the 40's. Matthysse isn't top 3 or 5 but the fact that some rankings have him in their top 10's only shows what type of fighter Pacquiao is. At 39 Pacquiao is aware of his declining abilities but is still challenging himself at this stage.

Matty is no top 10 anything. Matty is a quitter period and is taking a huge payday since matty has no other options. Paq picked the easiest opponent out there which was the soft my eye hurts matty the wimp.

[allenfred]

Lol, not even. Some well respected boxing rankings have Matthysse as a top 10 welterweight while Alvarado (Pacquiao's would be opponent) is ranked in the 40's. Matthysse isn't top 3 or 5 but the fact that some rankings have him in their top 10's only shows what type of fighter Pacquiao is. At 39 Pacquiao is aware of his declining abilities but is still challenging himself at this stage.

Matty is a bum and Paq knows this. Horn would stop Matty. Paq needs easy fights.

[allenfred]

LMFAO! buboy is a fat slob buffet king!

Buboy is a pig a fat nothing who mooched off Paq for 20 years.

[allenfred]

good to know how you feel about the "joke paq" and good to see that you rank him "top 10" lol.

The old Paq is still in the top 10 welterweights maybe 9th.

[WesternChamp]

No just real talk bro. Matthysse is the hardest puncher he’ll ever face at this point of his career. Idk maybe prime dlh/cotto had the same power or more.
But right now matthysse is.
Pacquiao’s style in full form should always be paired with a good chin to be successful since he’s making a lot of unbalance moves more often than not when he fights.
When it comes to power alone its quite a big difference from bradley vargas horn to Matthysse.
His system might not be in for it anymore. Can he avoid a solid hail mary or whatever shot to the chin for the entire 12 rounds? Well, I certainly hope so.

Roy is obviously far more shot, and has worse boxing fundamentals than current Pac.
He don’t play defense while Pac has been cautious in his few outings and there’s a reason for that.

Prime Pac would have blasted a face first Horn maybe inside the first 5 rounds. But instead he folded and allowed Horn to do this bs moves.

If Pac fights the right fight and avoid mistakes, he peppers Matthysse with what’s left of his speed.

yes, lucas will be the hardest puncher he's face up to date, but the way yall acting like pac's chin is glass. if that's the case he would have been ko'd long time ago after the marquez ko.

like i said, he's been hit flush from the guys i mention earlier and even though they're not power puncher, if pac's chin was that far gone, he would have went down. he never got dropped in any of those fights.

he's not what he use to be but like i said i think his chin is not that far gone like how some of yall is making it out to be.

[WesternChamp]

The old Paq is still in the top 10 welterweights maybe 9th.

but he's a joke right! lol.