How Did Pacquiao Systematically Dismantle Thurman? Fight Analysis

[dsomonster]

That has nothing to with whether Thurman was dismantled. He wasn't. It was a close fight.

And prior to the fight, Pac was the betting favorite. Thurman wasn't "supposed" to do anything. I did pick Keith to win a boring decision, and even then I wasn't that confident in his abilities. I (mistakenly) gave Keith the benefit of the doubt and assumed the Lopez fight was a fluke performance, but it's clear to me either Keith was never that good or he doesn't take boxing seriously anymore.

I don't know if Keith is done with boxing yet. We would have to see him in his next fight to be sure about where his head is and if he was ever as good people thought he was. He sure looked ready for this fight. He was in great shape and took some shots that would have put most on their bike. To stay up on that liver shot instead of taking a knee showed me he still has head in the game and has heart.

A fight with top 5 WW will show us where he's at.

[SugarAnt05]

and manny is 40, your point????

Yup, 40 and he was still favored to win so clearly oddsmakers know more than boxing scene professional commenters. You act like I'm saying the win wasn't great. My point is that it was a close but clear win, dismantling is a stretch. Lomachenko dismantled Walters for example, made him quit. But I get it, Pac's your guy so if you say it's a dismantling, it is bro. I'm out

[IceTrayDaGang]

Yup, 40 and he was still favored to win so clearly oddsmakers know more than boxing scene professional commenters. You act like I'm saying the win wasn't great. My point is that it was a close but clear win, dismantling is a stretch. Lomachenko dismantled Walters for example, made him quit. But I get it, Pac's your guy so if you say it's a dismantling, it is bro. I'm out

you're complaining about how thurman didnt look good in his previous fight, etc. im letting you know that pac is 40!!! so wtf are you even crying about?

and i never said manny destroyed thurman!!!! why are you so hung up on the word "dismantle"??? did manny not broke thurman down? do you even know what that word means?

and by the way, i didnt make the title, the owner of that video made that title!

[hugh grant]

you're complaining about how thurman didnt look good in his previous fight, etc. im letting you know that pac is 40!

Yes it gets on my nerves when people try take shine off someone's win.
Spence, crawford, Thurman avoided each other and Pac stepped up to plate. If Pac didn't step up we might be old and Gray before they all fight each other. Pac got ball rolling the first to register a win out of the four.

[Richard G]

another poster that didnt watch the video. watch the video and see how pac broke thurman down.

A systemic breakdown starts with fighter A working out fighter B in the first few rounds with not a real lot of action. By then A has worked out B's weaknesses and starts to capitalise on them, B is getting frustrated because he is getting hit without being able to effectively fight back. For the next few rounds B is broken down until he can't continue.

That's where systematic comes in, it's a procedure, A's procedure. Crawford is a master at this, against Horn he demonstrated it to perfection while Khan realised what was happening and took the coward's way out.

[FredWreck]

Pacquiao systematically dismantled Thurman, that’s correct. From round 1 he started calculating his every move, and he dominated the fight.
He took a couple middle rounds off to relax but then proceeded in closing out systematically calculated making the fight look easy as pie.

[Curtis Harper]

When pac fought a southpaw he lift his opponent feet off the ground with an uppercut (fashan 3k), pac is more dangerous when he's facing a southpaw, that's why i favor a very small ww, old, past his prime, part time boxer and full time senator against the so called Boogeyman of the ww division.

When was his last southpaw opponent
And
What do you make of the preposterous title to this thread
?

[Curtis Harper]

yes, manny did broke thurman down. landing more meaningless punches doesnt mean shiiet.

If you saw Thurman being dismantled, that's an issue only a psychiatrist or optometrist can fix.