Other fighters who tore their rotator cuff during a fight

It's pretty funny, on one hand we've seen the form from NSAC which basically states that Manny Pacquaio did not disclose his injury to the NSAC physician the day before the fight.

Now we're seeing that the tear was so serious he apparently needs 9 to 12 months out of the ring.

Remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m51pATaXdjw

Vitali, WELL ahead in the fight, finding it easy, until he tears his shoulder and basically cannot defend himself with that arm and can only paw with it to try and set up his other arm, decides to quit on his stool to deal with the pain..... seven months later, he had another fight, fully recovered.

Or?

Jeff Lacy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx4-G49eOXE - tears his shoulder, can't raise his arm high enough to defend himself, grits his way through to a decision victory but basically completely destroyed his career off the back of it because he never had that left hook he wrote his cheques with.

So we're to believe that Pacquaio's injury was much more severe than either fighter mentioned above, while he was still capable right up until Round 11 of throwing right hooks to the body and to the head, and using that arm to jab, and using that arm to defend himself?

I just don't buy it, sorry. It smells too much like horse **** designed to buy public approval for a fighter, coming from a guy who is a king of hrose **** in Arum.

 

I have rotator cuff issues, from being a pitcher earlier in my years in Baseball and then boxing, remember throwing a pitch on a Wednesday night at Baseball practice, feeling a burn in my shoulder, then stupidy on Friday at boxing, I was doing bursts of sprinting, speed work on a bag then down for twenty pushups, on the third push up, felt a big crunch and twenty years on, I still have issues with it.

I still struggle to raise my arm above my shoulder, and when it happened, it was almost unusable. So as for Vitali quitting on his stool, I completely understood when that happened.

But to think Manny fought a fight with that injury, was still able to use his right hand to defend himself and even throw some pretty powerful shots late into the fight with it, that's just complete horse ****.

 

The other thing to note is how effective Manny was with his right hand, versus his left hand during the fight. A lot of the punches he landed came with the right hand.

He was also throwing fluent combinations with it that looked hard into the later rounds of the fight, you point out any other fighter with a torn rotator that has done that?

 

"Due to the Adrenaline"

The excuses are ridiculous at this point, Your guy got beat. Too bad, so sad.