People say Pacquiao took lots of clean shots, but...

Explain the logic behind taking three left hand uppercuts in a row to "create openings" and then failing to actually counter any of them.

 

Clottey didnt throw punches back, so Pac got complacent and just stood there bombing away. Im sure if he wanted to he could have flurried, get out and repeat. Most of the time he wasnt even bothering to get out, he was trying to stop Clottey...trying too hard almost.

 

Pac is a sucker for uppercuts. His guard leaves an opening down the middle. If he thought Clottey had KO power Im sure he wont stand still to simply try block their punches, he will do what he did against DLH and get out the way at all cost.

 

Why wouldn't he have just got out of the way after the first one if it was an issue?

Not as if Clottey threw 3 fast, consecutive uppercuts. There was quite a bit of time between each one.

I made this point as well about Pac. He was in full control, he was prepared to take punches to make Clottey engage with him and then he could land more damaging punches of his own.

 

Maybe it's not so bad but he was visibly scuffed up after Cotto and Clottey. I'm not sure it's a good idea to bait full-fledged welterweights when you could probably make the lightweight limit without much discomfort.

 

Early in the fight? No.

Later on when the fight was pretty much decided? yeah he was trying to get clottey to engage. But he took some clean shots early.

 

Just rewatched the first round when Pac was actually bothering to move and "box". Pac practically slipped or blocked all of Clottey's jabs & right hand.

 

yeah I've said this before, Pac just loves to fight. He invites guys to hit him.

When he was boxing though he actually picked off a lot of clottey's straight rights and hooks.

 

Roach is always talking about Pac retring soon citing he doesn't him to take the same punishment he himself (Roach) took in the ring resulting in his Parkinson. It's been suggested in some circles that he is worried about the health of Manny if he carried on whilst sustaining that level of punishment.

 

so now the excuses for pac getting hit clean are simply "he did it on purpose, he likes to get hit in the face!" ?????

:rofl

i guess no one who ever hits pac in the face clean will ever get their due since obviously pac is letting it happen on purpse. ya'll are crazy

 

Not really excuses, basic analysis of the fight.

Watch the first round, vs Pac in later rounds when hes trying to finish Clottey. He's fighting completely differenly, one hes "boxing" avoid hits, later he doesnt care bout getting hit, just trying to stop Clottey.

JMM gets his due, Cotto gets his due. In the first few rounds, Pac was genuinely trying to box and Cotto was just doing better.

 

There's no question that he was in control, and took them just fine. My point was simply that if he was waiting to counter the third in a series of three telegraphed uppercuts would have been a good time to do it. Instead he ate all three and the Clottey went back into his shell.

He wasn't particularly concerned about the punches but I doubt he was intending to eat them either.