Pac will spar with Felix Sturm

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  1. retriever

    retriever Boxing Addict Full Member

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    http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/ThePacquiaoFiles/view.php?db=1&article=20081016-166606

    Pacquiao flaunts power vs sparring mate

    MANILA, Philippines—Manny Pacquiao logged in his first four rounds of sparring Tuesday afternoon at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, slugging it out with a 5-foot-11 super welterweight who swore that he felt the Filipino champ’s speed and power.
    The sparring started slow then became a punching battle that left Rashad Holloway shocked and awed, according to www.philboxing.com.
    Holloway, who has a 9-1-0 record with five stoppages, was quoted as saying: “He is too fast and very strong. I felt those body shots.”
    The 5-foot-6 WBC lightweight champion Pacquiao, who will take on Oscar De La Hoya at 147 pounds on Dec. 6, needed time before solving the long, pointed jabs thrown by Holloway, reported the country’s foremost boxing website.
    As soon as he got the hang of it, Pacquiao, widely recognized as the best fighter pound for pound, engaged his sparmate in a furious slugfest, launching head and body combinations before pulling out just as quickly.
    “Some of those that got through appeared to be power shots and they did not seem to bother the Pacman. Although, they may not be as strong as those expected to be delivered by De la Hoya, it seems that Pacquiao has the capacity to take and absorb blows from a super welterweight,” said the article.
    The idea is to simulate the conditions atop the ring at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas where Pacquiao will attempt to neutralize De La Hoya’s four-inch edge in height, six-inch advantage in reach and cutting-edge skills that made him the richest and most famous boxer in the world.
    Four more boxers are lined up to test Pacquiao’s mettle, including Felix Sturm, whom De La Hoya defeated for the WBO middleweight title in 2006.
    Yet despite Pacquiao’s impressive showing, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has made a daring prediction in favor of his boss: “A brutal knockout.”
    When asked by setantasports.com about his forecast, Schaefer said: “I actually think he will knock him out in a rather brutal fashion.”
    But noted boxing author Gary Todd said Pacquiao will win by a late TKO.
    “To win, he (Pacquiao) has to fight in the same aggressive, nonstop punching way, moving at angles, countering with blistering combinations all night long. Oscar will get tired. He stopped throwing punches in the (Floyd) Mayweather fight. Pacquiao has to be first and try to take his legs away. If he can, he will win by late TKO,” wrote Todd at the www.braggingrightscorner.com.
    Still, Todd feels De La Hoya will be going into the fight fully equipped, with the help of maestro Ignacio “Nacho” Beristain and former world champion Daniel Zaragoza, who is expected to fill in the Golden Boy in terms of fighting a southpaw.
     
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  2. boxbox

    boxbox Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    its crazy, but it sure is getting more interesting...
     
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  3. reed_man02

    reed_man02 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yo man check the source haha. I can't believe DLH is THAT shot that he would lose to pacquiao.
     
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  4. Monstar

    Monstar The Future.. Full Member

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    it's gonna be like Jack Dempsey vs. Jess Willard

    but if he's succesful in his spar with Sturm then i can see him beating De La Hoya...because though De La Hoya won that fight, i felt Sturm was robbed honestly

    but.....i still wont pay to see this fight no matter how hard he's working
     
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  5. theunderdog

    theunderdog Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    i'd wait till i actually see sturm spar with manny. it's easy to drop names
     
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  6. Flea Man

    Flea Man มวยสากล Full Member

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    Wow, very true. DLH has a great chin, but Pacman will probably hit him at will. I mean, Steve Forbes nearly did, he lacked the power. No doubt Pacman carries more power than Forbes, evena t 147.
     
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  7. TanstA

    TanstA Legendary Full Member

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    sure you wont *******.
     
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  8. bulakenyo

    bulakenyo Am I a boxing fan yet? Full Member

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    :lol:

    :patsch

    This fight is crazy.
     
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  9. san rafael

    san rafael 0.00% lemming Full Member

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    :klitfanb:
     
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  10. divac

    divac Loyal Member Full Member

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    Does anyone know if Sturm will be a regular sparring partner of Pac's?

    Stu rm as a regular sparring partner of Pac would benefit Pac immensely.
    Sturm is a jabber, which is exactly how DLH is going to attack Pac.

    For Pac to have any chance at all he's got to be able to get past DLH's jab.......
    Sturm can do one of two things for Pac......Pac can figure out a way to get by Sturms jab and attack.....or Sturm can convince Pac once and for all that he's not going to beat DLH.

    My opinion is that if the plan is for Sturm to be in the Pac camp for the long haul, those plans are going to change very rapidly as Freddie Roach will have Sturm out of their camp in a hurry.

    I dont see where Pac will do anything to neutralize Sturms jab during sparring, and he sure is'nt going to put a dent on a bonafide middleweight and make Sturm backup.....unless Freddie Roach is instructing Sturm to do so.

    The Sturm sparring sessions will likely be closed and private, because there is no way that the Pac camp is going to want made public a jabfest schooling by Felix Sturm onto Manny Pacquiao.

    I doubt we'll ever here how that one sparring session between Pac and Sturm went!:D
     
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  11. catasyou

    catasyou Lucian Bute Full Member

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    And why not?Let the circus be circus to the end...
     
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  12. theunderdog

    theunderdog Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    for me, anything less than a ko win for dlh is a disgrace. pac debuted at 106. if pac lasts the distance, that's a good as a win for him.
     
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  13. boxbox

    boxbox Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    exactly! its hard to imagine and would take a very gifted fighter to solve that kind of obstacle. The pressure is very much on DLH since beating Pac is supposed to be a given here. Pac has nothing to lose but his pride. I guess you'll be giving props to Pac if he wins?:blood
     
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  14. theunderdog

    theunderdog Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    and his #1 p4p ranking, perhaps to his nemesis, jmm. that has to be hard to swallow for pac
     
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  15. Stovepipe

    Stovepipe Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Well will root for Manny but it's hard to do so on anything more than an emotional level. I think the best hope is that DLH is very bothered by making the weight but too greedy not to do it, and that it effects him in the later rounds enough that Pac somehow, miraculously, overwhelms him or wins enough of the second half of the fight to get a decision.

    But its hard to see that happening. I mean, I can just as easily see, DLH, simply going, oh ****, this little dude is still here, and simply stepping on it, finding another level, and putting Pacman away, even if he, DLH, IS tired.

    This isn't just some big bum here it is DLH. The size difference is crazy.

    Go Pacman!!!:thumbsup
     
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