Maybe slightly better than Diaz.... His defense gets cracked early, only his chin can help him last...
Gatti gets stopped in 8. bad cuts, him not seeing the punches,having been knocked down twice already in the rounds prior. Ref stepps in while gatti is on the ropes getting his face pounded by a onslaught of punches
2 of my 3 favourite fighters - what I fight. I maybe lean to Pac but he would go into deep water with Arturo who would want to trade. Great, great fight just imagining it! :good
Indeed. Pac carves him up and knocks him out. Although it would probably be prety fun and entertaining early on.
It's probably easy to say the clearly greater fighter wins but you just never know. Gatti in the lighter weights where his prime was, far more durable than the versions of Hatton and Cotto Pac fought. He hit like a mammajamma too. Had decent speed, more boxing ability than he was usually fond of using and hey, upsets happen. May not be the walkover some would think.
it wouldn't even be close. a prime gatti wasn't that good, definitely not great like pacquiao is. pacquiao will outbox him, and out fight him as he's just too fast, hits too hard for the amount of punches he'll land, and is just too good. gatti is a good entertainer, gave us some great fights, but lets not go over our heads here, he wasn't that great of a boxer, and he's not in pacquiao's league.
if its at 130 as the rodriguez fight was,this wouldnt be the one sided blowout some people are saying,oscar larios shook the hell out of pac & so you can bet gatti could & would hurt pac,that being said gatti's face was easily damaged when fighting at lower weights so id have to pick pac by late rounds cuts stoppage in a close fight,no way he rolls over gatti easily.
a prime welterweight de la hoya couldnt do that to gatti who was comin up 2 weight divisions so no ****ing way pac is doin it.
Gatti would get ****ed up in the end...but by no means do I see this as a demolition job for Pac if it took Manny 9 rounds to put away a can like Diaz. Arturo's face will look like a used tampon after a few rounds and I wouldnt be surprised to see him hit the canvas a couple of times on his way out. He might not even last 9 but he wont get dominated as badly as Diaz IMO. He will force a little extra out of Manny but will eventually pay for it. I honestly do see horrific facial injuries ending this before Arturo capitulates.