Pacquiao: It felt like my right arm was cut off during Floyd bout.

That's what he wants you to believe. Pac needs to worry about Jessie Vargas!

 

There was a sequence in the clinches where you can tell that Floyd was trying to yank on his arm as hard as he could.

 

What I got out of that interview is that he had a shoulder problem since 2009, during a period where he was considered one of the most dominant fighters at the time. It also sounded like he tweaked it during training camp, rested it up a bit before the fight, was OK going into the fight without any pain, and seemingly re-injured it during the 4th round.

He's better off just shutting up and taking the loss like a man. I don't know one person who actually thinks Manny won that fight, let alone thought that it was competitive. It was up to him to make it an action packed fight, and he failed miserably. I've never heard of a fighter of Pacman's ilk complain incessantly about an injury after taking a loss. The great one's swallow their pride and take their L's like a man.

 

Only there was a request for a Toradal shot that was denied to Pac. And common knowledge that Pac had injured himself in training.

 

He's been using toradol for many of his fights. He even admitted to it himself.. Toradol can be used for body numbness, so he can take the hits better.

 

Absolutely..

 

It's called taking the test. Stop with the excuses. Go take salt bath and cure your butt hurt like the salt miraculously cured your shoulder. Most of us knew the outcome of this fight before it happened, including all the excuses. It's not rocket science. Floyd is better than you!

 

Read what football players say about toradol!

 

You can take a shot of Non Steroidal Anti-inflammatory meds not necessarily for the pain itself, but for prophylactic/preventative purposes of a potential flare up. It can work for both situations.

It looked like he was stumbling a bit explaining the timeline of his injury, but from what I gathered it seems like he injured himself about 3 weeks before the fight due to over training, was informed by a physician that it could heal on its own with some time off, he took some time to recoup and it felt Ok leading into the fight.

I agree with you that I wish he could've gotten that anti-inflammatory shot before the fight, but if his handlers didn't follow the medical protocol properly and didn't disclose his injury, than he wasn't entitled to receiving the medication.

 

This is true..

 

It's a good thing he took a swim in the ocean. He grew a new arm!

 

Ok? So why didn't he postpone the fight? I've watched the ENTIRE build up to this fight in great detail. This was supposed to be fight of the century, 2 ATG champions in the same weight class fighting for the undisputed title. Not once have I seen Pacquaio or his camp complaining about a shoulder or injury of any kind. Everything was supposed to be okie dokie actually. Even during and immediately after the fight it wasn't evident.

As soon as Pacquaio lost, a plethora of excuses started coming from Pac's camp. I don't blame Pac though because it's a fighters drive to not admit defeat that makes them achieve greatness.

But a sore loser is a sore loser.