He stated previously that he would seek the knockout. He shut Pac's offense down but didn't seem inclined to convert that into offensive momentum, and that cost him the fight. I suppose he kept stepping and countering and waited the whole fight for a clearer opportunity to seize the momentum, but it never happened because Pac fought much more disciplined than in the previous bouts. Do you believe JMM should have opened up anyway since the chance wasn't showing up on it's own?
I wouldn't say it cost him the fight at all. He would have risked a KD OR KO and probably wouldn't have got the decision anyway
Well what I was thinking is that Manny himself didn't let his hands go nearly so much as before, or even against the bigger welters, until it was very late in the bout. Could JMM have worked him over more consistently on the front-foot, keeping in mind that once Pac did make the decision to push more aggressively of course the risk shoots up too much to take for JMM... As it was, the match overall was a chessgame where neither man allowed the other to anchor in their offense. Nacho stayed concerned about JMM not exposing himself rather than encouraging him to lead more, and Roach didn't appear to have anything more to say about how to make Pac's aggression effective than whatever they did in camp.
Honestly another ******! "Manny didn't let his hands go nearly as much as before"... why the f*ck do you think not? He couldn't. Why, learn a bit about footwork. Also why would he seize "offence momentum"... he was counter punching which beats wild and mindless swinging any day of the week.
Another ******? Apparently you didn't read that I understood why JMM was able to neutralize Manny, his positioning. So why did you post that? And of course as to your second point, that Marquez suffered the same lack of offense as Manny did. And that, perhaps, he might have won the judges over this time had he essayed forward pressure despite not seeing a perfect opportunity. All this is implicit in the opening post.
