I see JMM outboxing Pac. Pac is still one dimensional, still able to be outboxed by a good enough counter puncher. JMM is a better technical fighter, and will expose his flaws. Even in the second fight with Morales, Eric was winning rounds and landing punches flush until his legs gave out. I can see JMM doing what Eric did, but to a greater extent, similar to the latter half of their first fight.
I'll make it simpler than Mirani's thorough analysis..... ......with a raging Pac coming foward throwing lefts and rights with abandon....Jim Lampley is going bonkers in Pac lust as he is screaming vehemently that Pac has come to seek a KO..... ....with Pac throwing alot, and JMM throwing very little in the midst of Pac's full out blitz of aggression, Pac comes foward and unleaches a menacing left which is slipped by JMM as he moves to his left, but instead of throwing his right over Pac's left, JMM senses from an earlier moment in the round that Pac is going to come back with a wide right hook...... .....just in the instant that Pac is about to bring his right hand foward to throw that right hook, and Jim Lampley is about to ejaculate, BAM!!!!!!!!! Lightsout!! JMM times and shoots a short compact left hook right in the midst that Pac had his right hand up and cocked to unload it. JMM by 1st round one punch checkhook KO, that would make Floyd Mayweather Jr. smile and salivate in envy!
Its good to see that theres a public poll to go back to after the fight. I consider most of you experts based on the analysis Ive read so far.
:-(( so what is the invisible excuse this time... shot or weakening legs? because some said he was shot after several months and now legs might be the factor :-(( unbelievable.
His legs were clearly troubling him, in fact he was stretching them out and getting them massaged in between rounds. Watch the fight you goose, instead of nuthugging blindly all the time. He was actually ahead on the cards in the earlier rounds, but the pace of the fight was too hard for his old body IMO. He was clearly past his best, as witnessed in the fight against Raheem. A very over rated victory IMO.
thats a cheap excuse. Past prime or not he was dominated. Morales won about 3 rounds and then got knocked out while behind on all the scorecards. If Morales' legs gave out early then you can credit Pacquiao for good body work. If the fight had been closer then this past prime excuse might have some validity to it but even a prime Morales would have lost that fight as can be witnessed by the total dominance of Pacquiao Its not like Pacquiao won a close UD. It was a very dominating victory. To say that its overrated is laughable.
My only problem with a shot Morales is that he was not shot when he fought D Diaz. Morales even looked like he won that fight. I don't see any respect at all at the power that Pac possesses. What do you call the opposite of nuthugging? As for the Raheem fight, Morales went up in weight plus Raheem's style is not suited for EM.
Morales definately looked shot against Diaz. Ran out of gas quickly. Alot of it can be attributed to Diaz being bigger and leaning so much on Morales. Prime Morales definately takes Diaz as can be witnessed by how close that fight was.
Pacman knocks Marquez out in one or two rounds... three at the most. Pac will still lunge with his straight left, and Marquez will still counter after it. But unfortunately for Marquez, Pac isn't going for the one-punch knockout so that means he will look to trade big hooks this time unlike in the first fight where he simply covered up while in recoil. And while JMM's left-hook counter may land from time to time, I doubt it would knock out Pac let alone deter his aggression for long. JMM landed a lot of big shots cleanly in the first fight, and Pacman took them all prety well.