Pacquiao - Marquez 4 Analysis/Possible Outcomes

[dangerousity]

EDIT: Response to all those who says Pac tried it already in the third fight, perhaps I didnt make myself clear first time. I'm not saying to box in the center of the ring with JMM as he did in the third fight, its obvious JMM will win that and I already stated that. I'm saying, fight off the backfoot so that JMM will be thrown off his counterpunching game by being the man who has to close the distance and launch the assault. Now if you can point me at any point in the fight where JMM is the one walking forward, Pac walking back, let me know. All I see is JMM consistently moving back, circling away whilst Pac stupidly keeps moving forward and staying in range. BTW, it will be very difficult for JMM to "circle away" from that left hand if he was to be the one "chasing", he would have to bow, weave, and slip it rather than simply circle away or lean away from it.


On paper, Pacquiao should win this fight, he's faster, more powerful, more athletic, arguably bigger and equally skilled in their own respective styles. That is the key thing here, if Pac is better on paper, why does he struggle so much with Juan, when he would run over guys Juan himself would struggle with ie MAB, Juan Diaz, Casamayor etc. The answer is Styles, so by changing styles, Pac improves his chances drammatically.

There are 2 styles that seem to trouble JMM and I think this is true of most counterpunchers. Its either the guy who can cut off the ring and force their will on the "boxer", ie Juan Diaz OR a fellow counterpuncher who forces the counterpuncher to lead thus forcing him out of his element, ie MAB, Chris John, Floyd. Unfortunately for Pac, he is neither of the 2, he can't cut off the ring and he does not box off the back foot.


My opinion of what Pacquiao's strategy should be:

Box off the backfoot. He doesn't do this because its not his style, however I think even he knows he would make life easier for himself if he forced JMM to come forward. In interviews I have heard Pac say "I know how to fight a counterpuncher, to fight a counterpuncher you have to be a counterpuncher yourself, but it would be a boring fight". Quite simply, he needs to allow for a boring fight if he wants to win. Now I'm not simply saying to box with JMM as JMM would win that, but to literally go on the backfoot so that JMM would have to alter his style to something he's not accustomed to.

JMM is a counter-puncher, what do counter-punchers need? Punches to counter punch, and that's what Pac provides him. Pac is coming forward, look at the dynamics in the ring and controlling distance. If you're moving back, you control when you wanna be in range of your opponent or not, ie you don't want to be, you step back when your opponent steps forward, you want to be in range, you stay in there when he steps forward. When your moving forward, you don't necessarily control the distance, when you move forward, your opponent can move back, its a constant chase. Think of it as running and chasing after someone. The guy your chasing can engage you at any time by slowing down and letting you catch up. You who's chasing may never catch that person your chasing if he keeps outmaneuvering you or runs faster. Usually Pac's feet are fast enough to close opponents down and he attacks so fast opponents cant counter-punch him so this is not a problem for him, usually. However, JMM is a different animal, he's fast enough to react instantly to Pac's advances and when pac does rain flurry's, JMM knows exactly whats coming and counter-punches him.

This is the great disadvantage that Pac is giving away when he tries to keep pressing the action with JMM, by allowing JMM to control the range by following him, JMM can hit Pac at will and can read Pac well as soon as he knows Pac jumps in, he knows an attack is coming. If JMM is the one coming forward, Pac is in control, he can keep moving back to stay out of range and soon as he wants to hit JMM, all he would need to do is allow JMM to close the distance and then he can land his punches. Most of the time in the 3rd fight when Pac was missing, he was missing by inches as JMM calmly backed away from the punch, it is much harder to "back" away from a punch when you're the one coming forward.

I have seen the Chris John fight, with Floyd I can excuse JMM for that, but John doesn't possess any of Floyds craft or athleticism yet he was able to get a controversial decision. IMO, Pac can emulate John's style fairly easy and do it better.


The possible outcomes I see for this fight depending on fighters strategy:

1) JMM becomes more aggressive. I don't know what JMM means by this, whether its taking advantage of more opportunities or actually be the guy coming forward. If he tries to get too greedy with punches during openings, I can see him getting dropped again and that will swing the fight in Pac's favour. If he's the guy coming forward, he will get outboxed wide decision as well as probably get knocked down along the way. This is a very unlikely tactic for JMM. JMM says he will be very aggressive but I seriously doubt it, I think he saw what happened to Pac-Bradley and he now knows that if he fights like he did previous fights and edge a decision, he will get the decision.

2) Pacquiao becomes more aggressive. This is possible and may be the only way Pac can alter his tactics, I'm not sure this is the best option though. JMM is a counter-puncher, to counter-punch you have to have punches coming at you, Pac being aggressive will provide JMM more opportunity to counter-punch. Pac can hope to possibly overwhelm JMM but given that he was overly aggressive in the 1st fight and got a draw despite 3 knock downs, I'm not sure he could stop JMM. JMM has never come close to being stopped and with JMM's new found physique, I got a feeling he will probably be just as strong, if not stronger than Pac.

3) Pacquiao fights JMM exactly the way he has last 3 fights. IMO if he does this, he doesn't lose a close decision, he loses a wide decision. JMM knows him even better, JMM "S&C" is looking better and Pac himself has slowed down. By fighting the same as before I mean, neither all out assault or completely fighting off the backfoot. So just playing the usual boxer-puncher role which JMM eats up, its the perfect style for JMM, gives him time to think, not much pressure and he doesn't have to come forward. Any style that allows JMM those luxuries is gonna fall short.

4) Pacquiao fights off the backfoot as I discussed in the beginning. - Pac wide UD.

IMO, JMM has been fighting as perfect fight as he can, any changes to strategy would be great disadvantage to him. It is Pacquiao who needs to force the style changes.

I'm usually quite confident in betting on Pac fights, for this fight I have no idea who is gonna win, logically I favour JMM and I don't know why bookies have Pac as favourite. IMO the fight outcome depends entirely on their fight strategies which we can't predict at this point so you might as well toss a coin. The reason I'd favour JMM is because more than likely, both will use the same strategy as they have in their last 3 fights as its what they're most comfortable with, in that scenario, JMM outboxes Pac to a clear UD.

[divac]

You did'nt have to make your post so long.

Pacquiao allready tried your plan of boxing in fight 3 and failed miserably.

2 Scenarios which I could see Pacquiao succeeding with.

1. He lands a lucky shot and hurts Marquez badly!

or

2. Pacquiao runs ala DLH vs Trinidad and Leonard vs Hagler


Its not boxing though my friend. What DLH and Leonard did was not boxing. They literally went on their bicycle and ran for most of the fight.
Running and limiting the exchanges in rounds is Pacquiao's best bet to win the fight and not have the fans call it a robbery.


People have to learn to differentiate on whats boxing and whats running.
A boxer sidesteps like a matador but unleaches his own thunder.

A runner picks two or three spots in a round and limits his output to near single digits per round.


Pacquiao cannot outbox JMM, he has to run his way through the fight and win it on sheer legs speed, avoiding exchanges.
A 40 year old Marquez likely wont be able to catch a Pacquiao who's afraid to engage.


Listen Dangerousity! JMM is a counterpunching master, tell me he's afraid of exchanging?
Tell me he avoids the exchanges???
Come on in here and lie and tell me JMM does'nt bait and welcomes Pacquiao's aggressiveness and tears him up with combinations when Pacquao goes to JMM with them?????

The things I described JMM does to Pacquiao, Pacquiao could not implement vs Marquez because JMM counters the counters.
Marquez is so advanced at it Pacquiao would be lost.

Now if Pacquiao would to pick and chose to pot shot every with single punches every now and then, and run most of the time while keeping his punch output down to near single digits per round.
That scenario may be the only way Marquez does'nt consistently clock and rattle his brain.


Pactards around here accuse Marquez of running vs Pacquiao when what he does is actuallly aggressively counter Pacquiao every time he walks in at him.
Funny that what Pactards accuse Marquez of doing but does'nt, may be exactly what Pacquiao would need to do to nullify Marquez clocking and rattling his brain on a consistent basis and prevent a fourth schooling!


Are you telling us Dangerousity that Pacquiao should run from Marquez and ignore the boos of the crowd when they start doing that for lack of action?

Remember now, Pacquiao allready tried boxing and got outboxed, the next step is to try to run!

RUN PACROID RUN!

[cuchulain]

Originally Posted by dangerousity

On paper, Pacquiao should win this fight, he's faster, more powerful, more athletic, arguably bigger and equally skilled in their own respective styles. That is the key thing here, if Pac is better on paper, why does he struggle so much with Juan, when he would run over guys Juan himself would struggle with ie MAB, Juan Diaz, Casamayor etc. The answer is Styles, so by changing styles, Pac improves his chances drammatically.

There are 2 styles that seem to trouble JMM and I think this is true of most counterpunchers. Its either the guy who can cut off the ring and force their will on the "boxer", ie Juan Diaz OR a fellow counterpuncher who forces the counterpuncher to lead thus forcing him out of his element, ie MAB, Chris John, Floyd. Unfortunately for Pac, he is neither of the 2, he can't cut off the ring and he does not box off the back foot.


My opinion of what Pacquiao's strategy should be:

Box off the backfoot. He doesn't do this because its not his style, however I think even he knows he would make life easier for himself if he forced JMM to come forward. In interviews I have heard Pac say "I know how to fight a counterpuncher, to fight a counterpuncher you have to be a counterpuncher yourself, but it would be a boring fight". Quite simply, he needs to allow for a boring fight if he wants to win. Now I'm not simply saying to box with JMM as JMM would win that, but to literally go on the backfoot so that JMM would have to alter his style to something he's not accustomed to.

JMM is a counter-puncher, what do counter-punchers need? Punches to counter punch, and that's what Pac provides him. Pac is coming forward, look at the dynamics in the ring and controlling distance. If you're moving back, you control when you wanna be in range of your opponent or not, ie you don't want to be, you step back when your opponent steps forward, you want to be in range, you stay in there when he steps forward. When your moving forward, you don't necessarily control the distance, when you move forward, your opponent can move back, its a constant chase. Think of it as running and chasing after someone. The guy your chasing can engage you at any time by slowing down and letting you catch up. You who's chasing may never catch that person your chasing if he keeps outmaneuvering you or runs faster. Usually Pac's feet are fast enough to close opponents down and he attacks so fast opponents cant counter-punch him so this is not a problem for him, usually. However, JMM is a different animal, he's fast enough to react instantly to Pac's advances and when pac does rain flurry's, JMM knows exactly whats coming and counter-punches him.

This is the great disadvantage that Pac is giving away when he tries to keep pressing the action with JMM, by allowing JMM to control the range by following him, JMM can hit Pac at will and can read Pac well as soon as he knows Pac jumps in, he knows an attack is coming. If JMM is the one coming forward, Pac is in control, he can keep moving back to stay out of range and soon as he wants to hit JMM, all he would need to do is allow JMM to close the distance and then he can land his punches. Most of the time in the 3rd fight when Pac was missing, he was missing by inches as JMM calmly backed away from the punch, it is much harder to "back" away from a punch when you're the one coming forward.

I have seen the Chris John fight, with Floyd I can excuse JMM for that, but John doesn't possess any of Floyds craft or athleticism yet he was able to get a controversial decision. IMO, Pac can emulate John's style fairly easy and do it better.


The possible outcomes I see for this fight depending on fighters strategy:

1) JMM becomes more aggressive. I don't know what JMM means by this, whether its taking advantage of more opportunities or actually be the guy coming forward. If he tries to get too greedy with punches during openings, I can see him getting dropped again and that will swing the fight in Pac's favour. If he's the guy coming forward, he will get outboxed wide decision as well as probably get knocked down along the way. This is a very unlikely tactic for JMM. JMM says he will be very aggressive but I seriously doubt it, I think he saw what happened to Pac-Bradley and he now knows that if he fights like he did previous fights and edge a decision, he will get the decision.

2) Pacquiao becomes more aggressive. This is possible and may be the only way Pac can alter his tactics, I'm not sure this is the best option though. JMM is a counter-puncher, to counter-punch you have to have punches coming at you, Pac being aggressive will provide JMM more opportunity to counter-punch. Pac can hope to possibly overwhelm JMM but given that he was overly aggressive in the 1st fight and got a draw despite 3 knock downs, I'm not sure he could stop JMM. JMM has never come close to being stopped and with JMM's new found physique, I got a feeling he will probably be just as strong, if not stronger than Pac.

3) Pacquiao fights JMM exactly the way he has last 3 fights. IMO if he does this, he doesn't lose a close decision, he loses a wide decision. JMM knows him even better, JMM "S&C" is looking better and Pac himself has slowed down. By fighting the same as before I mean, neither all out assault or completely fighting off the backfoot. So just playing the usual boxer-puncher role which JMM eats up, its the perfect style for JMM, gives him time to think, not much pressure and he doesn't have to come forward. Any style that allows JMM those luxuries is gonna fall short.

4) Pacquiao fights off the backfoot as I discussed in the beginning. - Pac wide UD.

IMO, JMM has been fighting as perfect fight as he can, any changes to strategy would be great disadvantage to him. It is Pacquiao who needs to force the style changes.

I'm usually quite confident in betting on Pac fights, for this fight I have no idea who is gonna win, logically I favour JMM and I don't know why bookies have Pac as favourite. IMO the fight outcome depends entirely on their fight strategies which we can't predict at this point so you might as well toss a coin. The reason I'd favour JMM is because more than likely, both will use the same strategy as they have in their last 3 fights as its what they're most comfortable with, in that scenario, JMM outboxes Pac to a clear UD.

A reasonable analysis with some good points. It's difficult to know how the Pac-Bradley or Pac-JMM 3 scores might influence the judging.

All three of their previous fights were very close, so if it goes the same way again, it's arguably JMM's turn.

JMM is unlikely to change from his counterpunching style as it has served him well up till now. Besides, if he becomes the aggressor, he almost certainly gets stopped. So expect him to change little.

As you rightly conclude, the outcome probably depends on what Pac does, differently or the same.

There's a lot at stake for both men, probably a little more for Pac. That's what makes JMM a much better choice of opponent for a fourth time than Tim for a second.

Originally Posted by divac

You did'nt have to make your post so long.

Pacquiao allready tried your plan of boxing in fight 3 and failed miserably.

2 Scenarios which I could see Pacquiao succeeding with.

1. He lands a lucky shot and hurts Marquez badly!

or

2. Pacquiao runs ala DLH vs Trinidad and Leonard vs Hagler


Its not boxing though my friend. What DLH and Leonard did was not boxing. They literally went on their bicycle and ran for most of the fight.
Running and limiting the exchanges in rounds is Pacquiao's best bet to win the fight and not have the fans call it a robbery.


People have to learn to differentiate on whats boxing and whats running.
A boxer sidesteps like a matador but unleaches his own thunder.

A runner picks two or three spots in a round and limits his output to near single digits per round.


Pacquiao cannot outbox JMM, he has to run his way through the fight and win it on sheer legs speed, avoiding exchanges.
A 40 year old Marquez likely wont be able to catch a Pacquiao who's afraid to engage.


Listen Dangerousity! JMM is a counterpunching master, tell me he's afraid of exchanging?
Tell me he avoids the exchanges???
Come on in here and lie and tell me JMM does'nt bait and welcomes Pacquiao's aggressiveness and tears him up with combinations when Pacquao goes to JMM with them?????

The things I described JMM does to Pacquiao, Pacquiao could not implement vs Marquez because JMM counters the counters.
Marquez is so advanced at it Pacquiao would be lost.

Now if Pacquiao would to pick and chose to pot shot every with single punches every now and then, and run most of the time while keeping his punch output down to near single digits per round.
That scenario may be the only way Marquez does'nt consistently clock and rattle his brain.


Pactards around here accuse Marquez of running vs Pacquiao when what he does is actuallly aggressively counter Pacquiao every time he walks in at him.
Funny that what Pactards accuse Marquez of doing but does'nt, may be exactly what Pacquiao would need to do to nullify Marquez clocking and rattling his brain on a consistent basis and prevent a fourth schooling!


Are you telling us Dangerousity that Pacquiao should run from Marquez and ignore the boos of the crowd when they start doing that for lack of action?

Remember now, Pacquiao allready tried boxing and got outboxed, the next step is to try to run!

RUN PACROID RUN!

What a sad load of utter bollocks from a blithering, biased bozo who appears to becoming increasingly un-hinged !

[divac]

Originally Posted by cuchulain

A reasonable analysis with some good points. It's difficult to know how the Pac-Bradley or Pac-JMM 3 scores might influence the judging.

All three of their previous fights were very close, so if it goes the same way again, it's arguably JMM's turn.

JMM is unlikely to change from his counterpunching style as it has served him well up till now. Besides, if he becomes the aggressor, he almost certainly gets stopped. So expect him to change little.

As you rightly conclude, the outcome probably depends on what Pac does, differently or the same.

There's a lot at stake for both men, probably a little more for Pac. That's what makes JMM a much better choice of opponent for a fourth time than Tim for a second.







What a sad load of utter bollocks from a blithering, biased bozo who appears to becoming increasingly un-hinged !

Of course you will say that of my post, you are a Pactard!

I'd say the great majority of non-Pactards will agree with my assesments!

You C are a Pactard, there's nothing you can do to hide it!

[cuchulain]

Originally Posted by divac

Of course you will say that of my post, you are a Pactard!

I'd say the great majority of non-Pactards will agree with my assesments!

You C are a Pactard, there's nothing you can do to hide it!

Sure thing, Div.

That's why I've picked against him in three of his last seven fights, and criticized his insistence of a catchweight against Cotto, and stated that all three of his victories over JMM could have reasonably been scored for Marquez, etc. etc.

You, on the other hand, are a well-recognized fool, who can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground.....





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[WhataRock]

HBO and Arum will give Pac an early christmas gift.

[cuchulain]

Originally Posted by WhataRock

HBO and Arum will give Pac an early christmas gift.

Yeah, just like they did last time he was on HBO.

[WhataRock]

Originally Posted by cuchulain

Yeah, just like they did last time he was on HBO.

If you get presents all the time then you don't appreciate them as much...parents do this because they say they love you but it's more about control.

[cuchulain]

Originally Posted by WhataRock

If you get presents all the time then you don't appreciate them as much...parents do this because they say they love you but it's more about control.

You're a regular fuckin' psychologist.




BTW, Sydney rocks. The rest of OZ too !

[gojas1]

Originally Posted by cuchulain

Sure thing, Div.

That's why I've picked against him in three of his last seven fights, and criticized his insistence of a catchweight against Cotto, and stated that all three of his victories over JMM could have reasonably been scored for Marquez, etc. etc.

You, on the other hand, are a well-recognized fool, who can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground.....





...nor his Byrds from his Ledermans .








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[DABOZ]

Originally Posted by gojas1

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[Uncle Rico]

It's a double-edge sword. If he tries to counterpunch and box, he neglects his offense and actually gives JMM an easier time; as evident by their last fight which incidentally was the clearest win and the only one in which the JMM robbery claims are valid. And if he tries to be the aggressor, he provides JMM more opportunities to counter like you've said.

I have JMM the favourite for precisely the above reasons. His style matches up better and with that he’s been able to create the better formula. As hard as this is to admit, Pac has only matched JMM the way he has because of his physical gifts. Now that they’ve faded slightly and he’s being forced to use his bare skill-set -- which is/was never on par with JMM’s -- the dynamics of the fights have changed in favour of JMM.

[dangerousity]

Originally Posted by divac

You did'nt have to make your post so long.

Pacquiao allready tried your plan of boxing in fight 3 and failed miserably.

2 Scenarios which I could see Pacquiao succeeding with.

1. He lands a lucky shot and hurts Marquez badly!

or

2. Pacquiao runs ala DLH vs Trinidad and Leonard vs Hagler


Its not boxing though my friend. What DLH and Leonard did was not boxing. They literally went on their bicycle and ran for most of the fight.
Running and limiting the exchanges in rounds is Pacquiao's best bet to win the fight and not have the fans call it a robbery.


People have to learn to differentiate on whats boxing and whats running.
A boxer sidesteps like a matador but unleaches his own thunder.

A runner picks two or three spots in a round and limits his output to near single digits per round.


Pacquiao cannot outbox JMM, he has to run his way through the fight and win it on sheer legs speed, avoiding exchanges.
A 40 year old Marquez likely wont be able to catch a Pacquiao who's afraid to engage.


Listen Dangerousity! JMM is a counterpunching master, tell me he's afraid of exchanging?
Tell me he avoids the exchanges???
Come on in here and lie and tell me JMM does'nt bait and welcomes Pacquiao's aggressiveness and tears him up with combinations when Pacquao goes to JMM with them?????

The things I described JMM does to Pacquiao, Pacquiao could not implement vs Marquez because JMM counters the counters.
Marquez is so advanced at it Pacquiao would be lost.

Now if Pacquiao would to pick and chose to pot shot every with single punches every now and then, and run most of the time while keeping his punch output down to near single digits per round.
That scenario may be the only way Marquez does'nt consistently clock and rattle his brain.


Pactards around here accuse Marquez of running vs Pacquiao when what he does is actuallly aggressively counter Pacquiao every time he walks in at him.
Funny that what Pactards accuse Marquez of doing but does'nt, may be exactly what Pacquiao would need to do to nullify Marquez clocking and rattling his brain on a consistent basis and prevent a fourth schooling!


Are you telling us Dangerousity that Pacquiao should run from Marquez and ignore the boos of the crowd when they start doing that for lack of action?

Remember now, Pacquiao allready tried boxing and got outboxed, the next step is to try to run!

RUN PACROID RUN!

No he hasn't tried that same plan. What Pac did on the 3rd fight is try to fight smart aggressive, that means he was pressing the action but waiting too much. If you watch the fight, I mean actually watch the fight and not just watch JMM, you will see one guy is backing off, ie stepping backwards and another stepping forward, your homework is to figure out which one.

Pacquiao can box off the backfoot, you can call it running if you want but it does not need to be as extreme as ODLH-Tito. Pac simply needs to let JMM leads, when JMM is leading, his counterpunching wont be as sharp as he's not constantly alert backing up waiting for an assault and ready to react instantly, instead he is the one trying to launch an assault. Watch his fights where he is leading, he's less than spectacular and he usually got away with it because the guys he lead against was naturally levels below him.

Pac on the other hand wont need to worry as much about JMM's counterpunching, he is the one doing the counterpunching. The target will come to him as oppose to looking for it, and a target coming to you is much easier to hit than a target backing away from you.

JMM is a great counterpuncher but thats exactly what he is, a counterpuncher. Its not that he runs from exchanges, but in order for the exchanges to occur Pac would try to initiate it, either by closing the distance to which JMM responds with punches or Pac throws first to which JMM sees it coming cos he's waiting. JMM leading would throw off his counterpunching mentality and Pac would land easier.

Like I said, watch Chris John do it against JMM and tell me Pacquiao could not do that much better.

[dangerousity]

Originally Posted by Uncle Rico

It's a double-edge sword. If he tries to counterpunch and box, he neglects his offense and actually gives JMM an easier time; as evident by their last fight which incidentally was the clearest win and the only one in which the JMM robbery claims are valid. And if he tries to be the aggressor, he provides JMM more opportunities to counter like you've said.

I have JMM the favourite for precisely the above reasons. His style matches up better and with that he’s been able to create the better formula. As hard as this is to admit, Pac has only matched JMM the way he has because of his physical gifts. Now that they’ve faded slightly and he’s being forced to use his bare skill-set -- which is/was never on par with JMM’s -- the dynamics of the fights have changed in favour of JMM.

I am not suggesting that he boxes tentatively like he did in the 3rd fight, I am suggesting that he forces JMM to be on his frontfoot by going on the backfoot. This changes the dynamics of the fight greatly and a lot of the things that JMM does that use to frustrate him will be nullified.

Example:
JMM backing off, is out of range so Pac lunges forward to close range and to try attack - JMM sees the threat, launches counterpunches and gets out of range again.

JMM backing off, circling away from Pac's left as Pac is in pursuit - It is much more difficult to "circle away" when youre the one moving forward, so as a result JMM moving forward will but him back in harms way of the straight left.

JMM backing off, Pac lunges forward and throws punches, JMM just takes another step back to get out of range and Pac misses by inches - If JMM was moving forward, it would be much harder for him to simply lean away from incoming punches, hence why come forward fighters bob and weave.

[dangerousity]

Originally Posted by cuchulain

A reasonable analysis with some good points. It's difficult to know how the Pac-Bradley or Pac-JMM 3 scores might influence the judging.

All three of their previous fights were very close, so if it goes the same way again, it's arguably JMM's turn.

JMM is unlikely to change from his counterpunching style as it has served him well up till now. Besides, if he becomes the aggressor, he almost certainly gets stopped. So expect him to change little.

As you rightly conclude, the outcome probably depends on what Pac does, differently or the same.

There's a lot at stake for both men, probably a little more for Pac. That's what makes JMM a much better choice of opponent for a fourth time than Tim for a second.

You're right JMM wont change a style that has worked for him, like I said JMM is fighting the perfect fight with the tactical advantage. Part of Pac's task is to force a different styles matchup in the fight, one that will favour him, ie JMM coming forward. If Pac refuses to engage and gets on his bike instead, you dont think JMM will attempt to pursue him? In that attempt to pursue him, ie closing distance etc Pac could take advantage by then throwing his punches then.