++++Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley: Technical/Tactical Breakdown Thread++++

The Cotto fight was his best showing, he isn't ever going to top that.... he's never looked capable of it either before or since - he was unbelievable that night.

I think the fights with Clottey, Margarito and Mosley took something out of him, all three were basically middleweights at the time, even though Clottey and Mosley didn't really try all that much they're still much bigger, and Shane in particular could still whack a bit.

Marquez took the **** out of him, it was painful viewing even though I wanted Marquez to win. You could quite easily score that fight 120-108 and be justified in doing so. There wasn't a single round where Pac clearly controlled the action - even the last when Marquez was running, Manny couldn't do anything at all.

 

.....this is funny this, Manny Pacman is going to hurt Bradley multiple times, he's getting knocked out or his corner will pull him out. And if anybody try's to be smart and patronise hat I say? I have been in a roll of late in picking winners, because I have been picking to win.

I picked Chad Dawson over Bernard Hopkins, at the last moment I did pick Froch over Bute and stated I was putting 100 on that fight.......

 

Bradley is going to UD Pacquiao, I cannot wait for the frustration to kick in mid-rounds when Pacquiao starts to do that lunge and flurry thing he does

 

I'm telling you this isnt even going to be a close fight Bradley is gonna DOMINATE this

 

.......it's going to be funny this.

 

Perhaps I'm being somewhat harsh with him on the Clottey fight, it is pretty hard to look good against an opponent who is merely content on going the distance and not wanting to be stopped. I think the Margarito fight took a hell of a lot out of him, he took a hell of a lot of punishment as well as dishing out his share and Margarito was probably around 165lbs on fight night. I thought he looked absolutely clueless against Mosley at times and once he realised he wasn't going to get a tear-up he looked as though he didn't want to be there.

As you say Marquez schooled him with absolutely embarassing ease, the first 2 fights IMO could have gone either way but the 3rd one was an absolutely disgusting decision, pretty sure I had it 117-111 Marquez and a lot of people on here had scores not too far from that. Whichever of the judges had it 116-112 Pacquiao should have had their performance reviewed in the same way the judges of the Williams-Lara fight did.

 

Pacquiaos last two performances have been abysmal for the so called no 1 p4p fighter

 

His upper body movement seems to have slowed and he's overshooting with the left even more than usual.

Even when he's been left hand happy he's always appeared to be balanced and could go from attack to defence relatively seamlessly, only getting caught with well timed and placed shots.

Here, he's being tagged routinely by pretty wild right hooks, either OTT or around the guard.

Pac's problem is that he can't help but try and counter the right by throwing a right of his own, and in turn drops his left, meaning he gets hit with it quite a lot.... when he ought to let the opponent punch a bit more.

It's something that only Morales and Marquez have been able to use consistently against him, that is, until I saw this tape.

 

Just look at him, he cannot contain his energy. He is like a 5 year old child...


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