Pacquiao was in a tough fight last night

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  1. GK BOX

    GK BOX Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This Vargas had noticeable height and reach advantage on Pacman. Not only that but he actually used these attributes in the fight. Vargas spent 90 percent of the fight on the backfoot. He was making Manny come to him. I was getting annoyed at one point. This is a fight! Vargas is the bigger taller longer man, he should have been coming forward more!!
     
  2. MUFA$A

    MUFA$A FEAR * THE * TANK Full Member

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    He caught Pac on the grill hard a few times lol

    I wanted to see Vargas catch Pac with that mean haymaker he hit Bradley with.

    But it never happened.

    Manny barely blinked everytime Vargas rocked him.

    Good competitive fight.
     
  3. pacman24

    pacman24 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Vargas coming forward more wouldn't have helped him.
     
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  4. LordSouness

    LordSouness Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He was in against a flat-footed, slow fighter without the power to KO Pac - it was supposed to make him look good and it didn't.
     
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    boxon123 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    This just shows that for the last 10 years there has been mostly small guys coming to welter chasing money.
     
  6. Holy Grail

    Holy Grail Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Vargas fought the best fight he could've fought and it just wasn't enough. There are levels to this ****. Vargas coming forward would've been worse for him and was fighting the right style.
     
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  7. The Akbar One

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    Not sure what fight you watched. Vargas was plenty competitive. The judge that had it 114-113 was about right. I could see that or 115-112
     
  8. itsa

    itsa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    doesnt matter. the judges had pac the winner before the fight started. he didn't even have to do anything to get the win.
     
  9. Willie Maeket

    Willie Maeket "40 Acres and Mule" -General William T. Sherman Full Member

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    This was the reason he passed on Crawford to look good enough against a lite puncher to get fans hype enough to request a rematch. Vargas was hitting Manny with lead right hands, that right there proved that Manny is a done deal. Even former Pac-Man hypers are not wanting to see that rematch because of his performance last night.
     
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    Willie Maeket "40 Acres and Mule" -General William T. Sherman Full Member

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    Not Dave Moretti. 116-114 It was almost a MD fight.
     
  11. itsa

    itsa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    114-113 was the right score. 118-109 pretty atrocious
     
  12. Willie Maeket

    Willie Maeket "40 Acres and Mule" -General William T. Sherman Full Member

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    Yeah, that's it. I was being lazy and freestyled it. 118-109 was very lopsided also because Vargas put up some good punch stats in the mid rounds.
     
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  13. itsa

    itsa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    yea the 118-=109 score would amke you think it was a dominant fight that manny looked good in. but in all honesty he looked terrible and if he runs into crawford or garcia next i can see him getting stopped. Floyd may even stop him as well. He needs to grab this win and retire IMO he's not a killer anymore.
     
  14. FuMaster

    FuMaster Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Vargas had his moments. And if there's one positive from it, is that he was more effective than I thought he would be. Close fight with Pac doing a little more to win the rounds.
     
  15. cippi

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    it was a good fight, pac still has it. stylistically it was a tought for pacman ,