Comments Thread For: Atlas: Pacquiao Beat a Heavy Bag; Diminished Matthysse Quit!

[TonyGe]

Manny should stay away from spence , Crawford and maybe even Thurman. But I wouldn't mind seeing pac against broner or khan. If his team is smart they should go after Danny Garcia who throws wide punches. Winnable fight right there.

I agree. Garcia is doable, at least in the realm of possible. Crawford and Spence are too good. He should just retire.

[Letmaku]

Matthys should go back to 140 or better yet retire with his $2M gross or $1M net payment! 😂

[Nightfall]

Quitthysse is de la Hoyas exciting fighter

[Manic Shot]

Teddy "We're firemen" Atlas is right...
On his prediction!

[juandabomb]

manny can beat soft body thurman....spence will be too big...crawford is no floyd so its still a 50-50 fight.

[clemenza]

Lucas had nothing left in his last 2 bouts, and this time he fought a guy in manny that still has a touch of hand speed left & and some pop. Here’s the deal, Matthysse was more Taylor made than Horn. AB fight makes dollars & makes the most sense to get Manny possibly a win against a guys that will be right there to be hit. If he wins that fight by early next year he can go out on his shield vs Garcia or Spence

[elfag]

Atlas might be right but Pac is still a top 5 WW, regardless of his points. Might not beat Spence etc, but hes a live dog vs any of them, even at 39. I think that says more about the division than it does Pac!

He is not a live dog anymore against the best. Crawford-Horn showed us that. Even if you believe Pac eeked out a decision over Horn, Crawford toyed with him. The excuse for Pac was that Horn was this huge young welterweight, even if he was untalented. We saw that he was no larger than a Crawford who just came from 140.

I watched a replay late saturday and fell asleep after a few rounds but expected a Pac stoppage, Lucas was a sitting duck, Pac had no fear of his power and Lucas had nothing to offer.

[hugh grant]

Can't believe atlas? Pacs Just as faded and had more fights and older. Floyd got credit for beating faded pac having had less fights than pac and being bigger.
You entertain Pac against Terence Crawford, Errol Spence Jr. or Keith Thurman.
It's ok for floyd not to entertain them. Floyd didn't even have to beat someone as good as luca. He beat connor and made connor look great, world class even.
Pacs best of era.

[Scipio2009]

Atlas might be right but Pac is still a top 5 WW, regardless of his points. Might not beat Spence etc, but hes a live dog vs any of them, even at 39. I think that says more about the division than it does Pac!

Do you honestly think that the Pacquiao that you saw fight could do anything with Shawn Porter, nevermind Thurman/Spence/Crawford/Garcia?

Jeff Horn was able to do enough damage to Pacquiao that two judges found at least 7 rounds to give him the fight; Terence Crawford basically beat Horn 9-0, with the last two rounds getting ugly as Crawford opened up.

There's a reason why the only fight that Pacquiao is even interested in talking about is 130lb Vasyl Lomachenko at as high a weight as his camp is willing to take.

[Bronx2245]

Pacquiao doen't need Crawford, Spence, or Thurman to make a ton of cash! Mikey, Khan, or Lomachenko will do just fine!