Just came about a fight clip of Juan Manuel Marquez' brutal KO of Pacquiao I had'nt seen before. Its a video from a fan point of view in the Arena that night. The KO comes at just after the 4:00 minute mark of the video. You can see it from the angle of looking at the frontal view of Pacquiao walking right into the KO punch. BRUTAL! This content is protected
Makes wonder how Pac took so many similar shots like that from JMM and just got flatlined by that one. Similar to Paul Williams vs Martinez. Martinez landed similar shots so many times in both fights then just boom, flatlined.
If Manny's massive melon had crashed into the ground with that amount of force in a street fight it would've caused a 10.0 earthquake
Big much slower guys where you can see the punch coming. Every fighter will tell you, its the shot that you dont see that hurts you. Pay particular attention to the couple of seconds before the KO where Pacquiao is feinting, his hands are completely dropped to near his waist. Manny feinted and took a nose dive, hands down right into the force that was coming at him in the form of that perfectly timed right hand. Why did Pacquiao have his hands dropped like that one might say. Its pretty simple logic boxistically my friends, if you watched the fight from the get go, Marquez layed down a framework of massive hits to the pit of Pacquiao's stomach, particularly the right hand that if you payed attention was hurting Pacquiao. Pacquiao got dropped cold in the 3rd round because after Marquez had landed that right hand to the pit of Pacquiao stomach several times, he disguised going there again which brought Pacquiao's hands down to create an opening for Marquez to land a massive right hand to the face that dropped Pacquiao. That right hand to the pit of Pacquiao's stomach is what created a wider gap to go up stairs with single shot knockout power by Marquez and its the reason why Pacquiao got KTFO.
I dont have Pacquiao in that discussion anyways, but even if I had one fight would'nt have changed my view of him. Most boxing historians dont hold Duran's KO loss to Hearns against him.
Pacquiao is certified ATG material. There's no way history won't remember him among the hundred greatest men to ever lace them up. Most scholars will have him somewhere inside their fifty.
I think PIPO was talking about Pacquiao being mentioned in the same breath with Ali, Duran, Robinson.......... Pacquiao is definitely a great, and deserves mention with the very elites, but if someone would to tell me to name a top 10 of all time, Pacquiao would not be on many historians list.