Comments Thread For: Margarito Admits He Underestimated Pacquiao, Fight Should Have Been Stopped

[kiallsop]

After what you did to Cotto, we were all hoping you'd take a career ending beating, and you did.

[STREET CLEANER]

Margo took a beating when he beat Cotto. Everybody forgot that he was missing in action after the Mosley fight was announced. It took him a long time to recover, got caught trying to cheat and took another beating from the hard punching Mosley. The circus fight against Pac was another TR money grab. Margo has always been slow and took a beating with all those combinations that Pac was landing. Before that Pac threw like 1000 punches against Clottey. No surprise that he beat Margo the way he did.

[pasawayako]

Hahahahahahah nice joke

It's true. That's why floyd duck margarito.

[Vodkaholic]

Lmao and in the post fight interview margarito was willing to die and Robert was willing to let him

[peterpen]

interesting

[Oregonian]

You really don’t know anything about the sport

Mayweather also started off at low weights but did it was an amateur whilst pac went straight to pros pretty much due to needing money

That’s the only difference

When you are young, you start off at lower weights and once your body builds up, you move up

Casuals these days

Edit it was also Mayweather and not Pac-Man who uses ivs to the same extend Lance Armstrong used to flush out peds

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“I am afraid of needles but I have several tattoos”

“I have titles in 8 weight classes after forcing catchweights on other guys so I could weaken them”

“I fight guys who are coming off losses so I can claim to be great. Mosley had lost to Floyd, Rios had lost to Alvarado, Clottey had lost to Cotto”

“I fight bums all the time on my way to greatness. Brandon Rios, Broner, Mathysse”

“I got knocked out by Marquez but it was a lucky punch”

“I got beat by Floyd but I had a shoulder injury”

“I got beat by Bradley and Horn but it was robbery”

[The plunger man]

For me that was Pacquaio’s most brutal prolonged beating he has ever dished out on an opponent.
And to do that at a 18lb weight disadvantage and 5 inches shorter is astounding.
Pacquaio put a hurting on that boy that night

[Skip Bayless]

I blame Robert Garcia so not stopping out. Tony is too proud to ask corner to stop it, trainer’s have to protect the fighter

[RuleOfTheSpear]

Not gonna say prime Pacquiao schools everybody today, because styles make fights. But to say he couldn't go up to 160 and beat a current GGG would be foolish. He would beat a GGG or Canelo today, while still possibly losing to a Crawford.

When I saw GGG fight Brook, i thought of the same thing.

Prime Manny would've obliterated any version of GGG

[Beercules]

I literally just watched this entire fight on YouTube yesterday for the first time since I watched it live. Man what a performance. I remember being on pins and needles the whole fight thinking Pac was gonna get knocked out cold. Margarito landed some hellacious shots on Pac especially when he occasionally had him trapped on the ropes . I don't think we've ever seen a guy with that much of a size, reach, and weight disadvantage dish out such a shellacking for an entire 12 round fight.

Pac was never the same after this fight though. The fight took him out of his prime for sure. It was definitely the last time I saw him throw 5-6 punch combinations over and over and over & Margarito was getting hit with all of them. He coulda called it a career after that & I don't think anyone wouldve batted an eye. Who woulda thought he'd be still kicking ass 10 years later.


2008-2010 Pac beats almost everyone if not literally everyone at 140-154 today. Bud gives him his toughest fight but I don't even think Bud could handle the output, speed & ferocity Pac was dishing out

Great post