Best Sparring Partner for Pacquiao in Prep for Mayweather

antoine smith

 

I say Kid Diamond, Anthony Peterson, and Paul Spadafora. All guys whose taken him to school in sparring. If you can get the best of these dudes, you 'should' be golden...lol

 

gamboa not a defense fighter he has been knocked down like 5or6times already

 

Tell that to DLH when he fought Pac.

 

Diosbelys Hurtado. Have him fight like he fought Whitaker.

Nah, just kidding.

 

Forbes

 

Joan Guzman

 

Rocky Balboa :yep

 

forbes, zab and james fatman toney!!! :happy:yep

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Actually, he is not. The initial odds were 8/5 in favor of Pac, but apparently there are some who bet for Mayweather in amounts as high as 20,000 dollars that is why it became 7/5, Meaning 50 dollars wins 70 or in that ratio or a 20,000 dollars would win 28,000 for a mayweather bet, which is not a definition for favorite.

I am not sure if you are one of those who withdrew their money to put on a bet.

 

lol. Toney would be great.. How about Corey Spinks? is he still around?

 

The only thing Corey Spinks and Mayweather have in common is the way they cry after each fight.

 

In terms of getting used to pure speed, Khan IS actually useful, especially as he's right there in the same gym every day. Just have him move and jab CONSTANTLY. (He actually has a lovely jab, when he uses it.) His defence is obviously nowhere near Mayweather's, in style or effectiveness, but he definitely ranks on the same level as Floyd in terms of speed. Pac can practice cutting off the ring against him, because if Cotto could dance around and jab/counter Pac, Floyd would have a field day. Pac really needs to focus on constantly moving his head when closing the range, and cornering very quick/agile fighters with feints and clever footwork. Roach taught Hoya this pretty well, but he needs to do even better for this one.

 

Malignaggi would be an option as well but I doubt that would happen.

 

It would be more of a case of sparring partners.

There is nobody you can get to replicate everything Mayweather does in one. For practice in getting by Mayweather's defence Steve Forbes would be useful. For the movement Malignaggi would be useful. Then he'll need some bigger and stronger guys too to prepare for that.