I was ACTUALLY thinking this the whole time, Pac looked crazy good in camp leading up to the fight. Mind kept on going back and forth on if Spence couldn't handle Pac's last super motivated performance, or if Crawford is so good he is making Spence look terrible because thats what all dominant greats do. I have favor Pac 60-40 if they fought at the time, prime Pac would have absolutely.. yeah...
Nah. Pac didn't look too great against Ugas, Spence had they fought then likely would have stopped him.
You never know man? Maybe not fighting Spence was a blessing in disguise for Pacquiao because "what's next?" Would pacman start getting that boxing bug in him again? His need for blood and large cajones might have led him towards a Terrence Crawford! (Check the forum there is thread started about pacman vs bud.) Nothing wrong with that but a lot of things! Terrance is in his PRIME Manny's reflexes go with age Manny has all the courage in the world, which at times; he needs saving from himself! I'm now gonna chime in on that mythological post and reminisce the greatness of Pacquiao and place a prediction!
No. Pac doesn't have the power Crawford has which is what really won him the fight (ofc he was just perfect everywhere else too). Every time Bud landed on Spence he legitimately hurt him. Pac can't do that plus he's just much smaller. He would have got hurt badly by Spence
Pac had spent 10 weeks training for Spence and hardwired his training camp to fight Spence. Then he had to abandon everything to adjust for Ugas 11 days before. He continued training for Ugas and even sparring to rewire his brain for an orthodox opponent. He left it all in training.
No that's silly. Spence would've dominated the version of Pac he had to pull out against. There's absolutely nothing you can take from what Crawford did and say, "Pac would've done that". Just no. Crawford bullied Spence. That's why he won. Pac couldn't even bully Ugas, hell he couldn't even bully Jeff Horn (who I thought Pac beat).
Spence's style (come forward) is tailor made for Pacquiao's style whereas Ugas's style was the worse for Pacquiao (overly sized boxer). I was really excited for Pacquiao vs Spence because pacquiao has power and counterpunching ability. When Ugas replaced Spence.. I was like.. crap that's not good. lol It's the layoff and outside of boxing shenanigans ... How did Porter do way better than Spence? He's going to retire.. no path for Spence. Think they do it agian at 154?
He would of. Spence had already been hurt prior to tonight and getting dropped by a jab multiple times by light to average punchers and had to spit out his mouthpiece to buy himself time. The KO% of his opponent's is embarrassing. Manny hits harder at 147 than all those guys who hurt him and is way faster than them. Manny hurt or dropped many 147 pounders with much better chins.