How good are Pacquiaos technical skills?

El Buija, I never know when your serious, are you serious?

 

I'm super serial.

 

This is true, but he mixes it in his attack and his opponent is weary of being explosively attacked which he does as well. Its almost like he does it to slow the fight down and keep his opponent at range instead of using his jab, but as you say a distance technician is going to feint him into being off balance and counter him easily. Heard Amir Kahn was having a lot success boxing him in the gym.

 

Manny is never going to be the guy you think of as a paragon of technical soundness, but like all great athletes he has found ways to maximize his strengths and minimize his weaknesses. Roach has done an amazing job with turning some of his weaknesses into strengths. It's gotten harder and harder to take advantage of it when he gets caught out of position (which still happens a lot), because Roach has taught him how to fire that left a million different ways and from pretty much any posture.

Marquez learned this the hard way in their second fight. That one and to a lesser degree the third fight with Morales were when I quit viewing Manny as a brawler whose speed and power alone were getting him by.

 

Not easily no, a speedy guy will have some success though. I would like to see him in eventually with a boxer to see how he handles them and not someone he can just run over.

 

Yes, all good points.

 

Better than the average fan gives him credit for, although he still has some issues, most notably with how he p[laces and uses his feet, and his tendency to lean way in on punches.

Still, he's become a very dangerous counterpuncher, and defensively he's worlds better than he was back in the day: just compare footage from, say, Marquez I to the Cotto fight.

 

His only improvement is not being exclusively left handed and that he is carefully matched against limited opposition who cannot exploit his weaknesses. Roach/Arum at their best, that is the real improvement. I don't even want to get into when he fought a fighter with confidence on the upswing not coming of uninspiring losses/KO's or looked like absolute garbage in a win against mediocre opposition.

Marquez II is the only Boxer he has met recently who does not come straight in with below par defense...........and we all know how that worked out , the KD were the difference b ut otherwise he looked lost many times and if he fights a fighter with similar qualities again he'll look one dimensional again.

Quality jab, straight right ,lack of defense/head movement, faints and the inability to adjust mid fight are his kryptonite.

If the Mayweather fight ever happens it will be a complete let down either by wide UD or possible stoppage late IMO he does not have a punchers chance at 147, no one punch KO power in either hand at that weight and I am convinced if both sit down on their moneypunch swinging from the fences May hits harder.

 

I agree with this. These days people either tend to overrate or underrate his technical skills, he's either called terrible technically and purely a physical phenomenon, or his technical ability is blown out of proportion due to his improvements in recent times. Both are untrue, it's simple for me, it's like you say, his technical skills aren't great, but thery're not terrible.