Manny Pacquiao: Aged Fighter or Exposed Blue Print?

Marquez knows the insides and outsides of pacquiao's style after fighting him 4 times throughout Pacquiao's career. And was able to capitalize on pacquiao's vulnerabilities. No other fighter would of timed pacquiao better than marquez, and now everyone is trying to capitalize on the same thing that marquez did.

Styles makes fights, and marquez figured out pacquiao's through 4 different wars.

 

They are fundamentally different. Floyd is risk averse, defense first, Marquez is balls to the wall

 

exactly, its a shame boxing politics let a fight this huge pass expiration date

 

I do agree with your statement. But that's why in my opinion FLoyd would have a much easier time with Manny than JMM did.

MOst of those exchanges Jmm would have with Manny ended up favoring Manny. FLoyd obviously minimizes the amount of risk when he fights and when he would start to counterpunch Manny, I don't think he'd try to follow up with combinations in the same manner as JMM would.

That's probably why people really love watching Marquez, he'll stick his neck out there to get into exchanges with fighters. It's fun to watch, but it's a recipe for disaster especially when fighting someone who is clearly more powerful (ie Pacman.)

FLoyd would just counter Manny anytime he tried to lunge in and box him from a distance by utilizing his 5 inch reach advantage and superlative accuracy. Manny would have to either sell out and try to fight him from the inside (which would be a bad idea,) or just continue to fight from a distance and lunge in every so often for a one in a million type of shot.

 

Of course he isn't the same but he seems to be adding some wrinkles to his game regarding how he uses his footwork and counterpunching and body punching. I noticed him slipping his jab over Bradley's a lot and moving well.
But yeah, he is obviously physically declining, every fighter declines.
In his prime he was an unstoppable killing machine, but he's still great.
Time to hang it up imho

 

Marquez is balls to the wall? Sometimes

Sometimes he looks confused on the front foot, he will war when the fight is brought to him and he feels he can fight, but when it isn't...
Chris John, Tim Bradley

 

hes 35 years old. he relies on his reflexes and speed. once that goes, hes done

 

This..