Pac goes up 2 divs to face Oscar, it's the greatest move ever. Broner goes up to 2

Good thread. I have no idea why so called 'boxing fans' cant admire both fighters in a rivalry (ie pac/floyd) or burns/broner if wer talking more recent. Its borderline learning difficulties.

 

Different situation an you know that but troll on

 

Lmao

Pacquiao & DLH
Broner & Malignaggi

Where's the comparison?

 

Broner and Pacquiao can be compared...

De La Hoya and Malignaggi CANNOT.

I agree that it's a good move for Broner that makes complete sense. I do not agree that Malignaggi is a future ATG like Oscar. 2 different kinds of fights/situations. Shot or not.

 

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Pac had 1 fight at lightweight.

He was a superfeather / featherweight before that.

Broner has fought at 140 and he's probably naturally sized for 140-147 anyway.


finally, a shot Oscar is stilll leagues better then Paulie Maliggnagi.

 

Oibighead actually comes out with a good reply as it goes but we have to presume that thise at 140 right now will share a ring with broner soonish anyway so maybe this is a thread for two or three yrs time....

 

I think both sides are wrong

 

What the hell does Pacquiao have to do with anything?

Broner's move up is respectable. Any concerns people have should be related to whether he takes on the challenges at 140, which I think he will.

 

I'm guessing they're going to say any or all of the following:

-Pac is really a lightweight, Broner is a natural ww picking on smaller guys
-Oscar is waaay better than Paulie
-Oscar KOed Mayorga, Paulie hasn't KOed anyone in 10 yrs (even though it was only 2 or 3 yrs ago)
-Broner ducked an entire pool that's stacked with dangerous sharks

I'm not that big of a Broner fan but him fighting PM is a good selection. Paulie can do what PDL did against Broner but better which means he has a good chance at winning. Broner isn't ducking 140...he's just getting started at welterweight (140-147). Paulie just happens to be the first in line.

 

As opposed to the thunder-fisted Stevie Forbes who broke Oscar's orbital bone.

 

:thumbsup

 

Paulie got whooped in his last fight, And even a shot to sh!t DLH >> Any version of Paulie.:deal

 

difference is Pacquiao was never even meant to fight at these weights
we all know Broner was gonna move up, difference is hes ducked a stacked division to fight the weakest world champ, after he beats Paulie he will probably fight Lopez or Maidana, theres not alot of people he would beat there atm

 

Malignagi, are y'all efing serious? haha is he boner really fighting Paulie? wtf in heavens. What a joke!!

 

I think the circumstances are sufficiently different that being treated differently is acceptable. At the time, most people thought Pac would lose to DLH (seems crazy in hindsight, but I'm pretty sure that was the case), and Pac was seen to be outside of his best weight class already so was seen as getting quite far removed from his optimal fighting weight (regardles off whether that was true). In hindsight, DLH was very shot (weight draining contributing a lot most likely) but only a year ago he had given the PFP#1 one of his closest fights in years. Malignaggi has never done that, and never will.

Malignaggi looked very shot 2 years ago against Khan (albeit in a stylistic nightmare for him), he was unable to pull the trigger, and his timing was very poor. He has since had a few wins against pretty so-so opponents - which doesn't prove anything really - it's the standard practice of boxers to get back into title contention, and it seems to work every time, regardless of how irrelevant the competition was. Given that Malignaggi's speed, timing and defence are not so sharp now, and he never had any power to speak of, it's just seen as perfect matchmaking (same for Khan when he faced him)...it's simply not the challenge that it seemed to be for Pac to face DLH.