Chatchai Sasakul was giving Pac a boxing lesson for most of the fight until Pac turned up the heat and stopped him. That was when Pac got his title @ flyweight.
There are rumors that, thinking it was a mismatch, promoters or someone asked him to put on a show for the crowd and carry Yeshmingbigtov a few rounds. But he got hurt and had to get up and finish it the next round or two. In any case he is a completely different fighter than the Agapito Sanchez/Nedal Hussein era Pac. He got a thousand times better. Floyd, Hopkins, and Marquez look like polished professionals from their first few televised fights. Pac looks like a crude amateur who hits hard who definitely improved exponentially after time with Roach.
:good Roach did for Pac essentially what Steward did for Wlad. Unlocked his potential to be elite, not just championship grade.
though he did get rocked, pacquiao carried larios. rumor was, pacquiao receive a % of the phil tv commercials, hence the longer fight goes, the more money he makes.
Since coming to America under Roach Pacquiao has steamed rolled virtually every opponent he's faced. The exception to this is Marquez and Morales once. The only other fight that he didn't dominate his opponent was the second fight with Bradley. He did beat Bradey decisively but Bradley caused him legit problems, and the first half of the bout was very close. So, how many competitive fights has Pacquiao had since becoming a REAL professional (under Roach). Like 6.(marquez x4 + morales x1 + bradley x1) How many competitive fights has Maweather had in the same time span? It's been about the same amount actually. Though against a wider variety of opponents. Castillo 1, DLH, Maidana 1, Cotto, maybe one or two others (Judah, though haven't seen the fight in a while)
I thought morales was competitive in the 2nd fight, it was the 3rd one that he got obliterated in.:bbb