Sir, your balanced, impartial and well reasoned statement has no place on these boards. Be gone with you.
Outboxer, great GIFs, thanks! Oh noes! I believe you're shooting friendly fire on an undercover agent! Another :good here. On-topic: yes, he's a credible counter-puncher. Just wish he'd take some lessons in half-steps (back or to the side) from JMM (hoping in vain for a Gatti-Ward relationship)
thank god it is not his bread and butter otherwise he would just be another boring fighter. counterpunchers are boring fighters. more than 90 percent of fighters who are classied as boring are counterpunchers.
Yes he can and he's rather under rated at it. Manny does a great job of punching "in between" his opponents punches. Great example: one of the Cotto Knockdowns.
Sure. Especially against the low skilled Brawlers, drained husks, and mentally unfocused no camp having fighters Pac likes to target. This is exactly why Pac won't fight Mayweather. Anyone looks good if the competition is crappy enough. He can do it though.
He landed a lot of right hand counters against Marquez. Even when Marquez landed big shots Pacquiao managed to touch him.
Most of those gifs were not counter but him beating his opponent to the punch. In boxing I thought the counter was the sucessful move after avoiding a unsucessful move.