Why Does Pacquiao Fight So Many Old and Shot Fighters?
May 11th, 2009
By Manuel Perez: I don’t know what it is with Manny Pacquiao, but it seems like he’s been a beacon for old and shot fighters in the past few years and I wonder why Pacquiao seems to be selecting a lot of those types. Pacquiao started with Erik Morales, who was totally shot by the time that Pacquiao fought him for a third time. Pacquiao then went and fought a 2nd fight with Marco Antonio Barrera in 2007. Why would Pacquiao need to fight Barrera again when Pacquiao had already beaten him by an 11th round TKO in 2003?
I knew this wasn’t going to be a competitive fight the moment that I first heard that Pacquiao was contemplating the bout. De La Hoya would have destroyed Pacquiao had he been six years younger and not in badly weight drained state at the time of the fight.
If that wasn’t enough, Pacquiao then goes after Ricky Hatton. Again, Hatton was another fighter whom had seen his best days in the boxing ring years ago and was only a shadow of his former self. Hatton was a great little fighter four or five years ago, but his weight issues that he’d been experiencing in the past several years did a number on Hatton’s once great talent and made him susceptible to even lesser fighters like Juan Lazcano.
Beating Hatton at this point in his career wasn’t such a big deal because Hatton would have probably been beaten by a half dozen of the top light welterweights in the division. So when is Pacquiao going to start fighting some young able bodied fighters that aren’t shot or over the hill?
That’s what I’d like to know, because when that time comes – if it ever does – I think Pacquiao is going to get the beating of his life. There has been talk of Pacquiao fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr. I don’t see that happening. Something will go wrong and Pacquiao will go in a different direction.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d more than like to see Pacquiao fight Mayweather, but I doubt he will. Mayweather is too dangerous of a fighter, and I imagine that Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s trainer, can see that for himself and he’ll want to steer Pacquiao away from him to someone easier like Oscar Larios or a David Diaz type opponent.
The fighter that Pacquiao needs to be fighting is Juan Manuel Marquez, who twice fought Pacquiao and both times was given the receiving end of some bad scores. The first fight was a draw, but should have been a win for Marquez.
And in the second fight, Marquez lost by a 12-round split decision in a fight that Marquez looked to have easily won by two to three rounds. Marquez is going to be fighting Mayweather next, and I can see Marquez winning that fight due to his better talent and counter punching ability. I don’t think that Pacquiao will be facing Marquez if he comes out the winner.
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Funny how Manuel Perez style is similar to Dave Lahr’s. Is Chris William another version of Liam Santiago as well??
combined em all great mexican, puerto rican etc. boxer at its level they will be demolish by manny
Hatton v.s. Pacquiao was such a great fight.
There was so much talk that Hatton is too big for Pacquiao and it was ended in less than 3 rounds, LMFAO.
Crypinoy is short for CryingGamepinoy… and you all know what that movie was all about. I heard Manuel Perez auditioned for the part of the tranny but failed because his penis was too small.
HAHA!!.. YOU ARE REALLY GOOD IN ANALYZING. BUT THE WAY I ANALYZED IT, ITS NO DOUBT YOU MANUEL PEREZ, IS THE “NUMBER ONE PACFANS”!! I BELIEVE YOU LIKE SEEING MANNY PACQUIAO FIGHTING ALL THE TIME. ME TOO, I LIKE MANNY FIGTHING ALL THE TIME! YOU JUST WROTE IT IN OTHER WAY AROUND. CAN’T ADMIT IT CAN YOU? KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK… HEHEHE..
o come on manuel perez, i mean crypinoy. Wait a minute, manuel was that you? Marquez got more fans than pacman? you made me laugh dude! Pacquiao made it to TIMES 100 most influential people list because of his stature and support from his fans. Marquez will never get that recognition. That statement of yours made your whole post bogus!!!! We pacquiao fans deserve to voice out our defiance to this non-sense, biased and unprofessional article. Well I figured Manuel needs to write anti-pacquiao articles atleast three times a week to make a living, that’s what he’s good at and obviously much better than cleaning toilets eventhough the article is full of lies and crap. PAcquiao is the best, live with it!!!!!
you pinoys sure cry alot more than marquez fans theres more fans for marquez than mrs pacman so stop your crying. I know you dont want to see your worthless god (manny) losse cuz thats all you have in your land manny manny manny blah blah blah thats all beside’s your comfort woman/juice girls or web cam girl. And you if you pinoy think i am mexican i am not but the mexican have lots more gold and medal than you filipinos in boxing you only have one guy but hey some of you pinoy’s are puki’s stop been to much of a pokpok grow up and o yea hatton suck and thats that
i dont think so, pacquiao fights anybody, when he came to the usa he fought ledwaba, ledwaba was his prime, when he 1st fought barrera,many consider him as the best, but what pacqiuao did to them, pacqiuoa demolished them and make them looked an amatuer, thats how good pacquiao is.
probably when paquioa fight with heavy weight, you will shot your mouth huh….
mr perez, how much money you lose when you bet on barrera, marquez, morrales, diaz, dela hoya and hatton. i think you just won once on pacquiao-morrales I.
He didn’t understand why Marquez fought an OLD and WASHED-UP Casamayor? Fought an old and already beaten Barerra? Fought an OLD over the hill Medina.
Almost lost with a GREEN Class C Juan Diaz.
LOST with an unknown and GREEN Champ in Chris John.
LOST with a C figther Norwood.
Disqualified in his very first fight with Javier!!!
But what is astonishing, he lost TWICE to an ONE-DIMENSIONAL Pacquiao. hahahahaha.
i would like to ask to this writer to whom he wants to fight pacquaio next so we will not hear any more excuses this writer always mention on this column.. give credit to the guy who beat ur guy that’s it this is sport only one should left standing especially in boxing…
Losers always have different and unique excuses like you did now Mr Perez. Probably your mind is still in shocked after that devastating defeat of Hatton whom you claim before the king of the light welterweight. Mr Perez, is there any by chance that an athlete will compete to a tournament and he or she is not in shape? I don;t think so!!! The mere fact is some of us in this modern era never accept the so called ” AGONY OF DEFEAT ” like you right now!!! Move on Mr Perez!!! There are lots of Mexican fighter whom you can toss-up high like you did to Marquez, Barrera, Morales and etc.
But this time you cannot erase what history is putting on and Manny PACMAN Pacquiao is part of it! And perhaps you are among the great critics of Pacquiao that shall be remembered by most of the avid boxing afficionados for your extra defination of winning. Move on Mr Perez and God Bless You Always!!!
you know, you talk too much… less talk less mistake
try one now.
You’re giving too much credit to mayweather jr. When he fought ODLH, ODLH was not in his prime! He was slow in that fight. But still he got off with a SPLIT DECISION. That shows how dumb mayweather is. At his brilliant accuracy on that fight, he forgot the punch output. If he were that great, he could’ve beaten the slow ODLH.
u perez just do all the complains whenever ur bet lose and get knocked out by pacman…
before the fight you where writting that manny would be destroyed by the hitman because he was never beaten on his weight class but then u where shocked?because just a second ur bet comes crumbling on the floor…
and then you always say marquez wins the both bout against pacman?? men!!! can’t you see?? marquez was taken down by pacman, he was not on his prime on that time, almost 5 times!~!!!!hahhahahaha because on the 11th round on their fight (cant remember the round) marquez almost roll to the floor AGAIN!@!@!
Perez! Its not that they are shot fighters far from it. Its just Pacquiao is simply better. I think you know this,but for some reason are in denial of this mans unbelievable talent.
Who said that Hatton was shot BEFORE the Pacquiao fight? He wasn’t, Pacquiao is just on a whole other level that made Ricky look like an Amatuer. Ms. Manuel Perez himself said this about Hatton ONE WEEK before the fight…”Hatton has the size, power and boxing skills advantage in this fight, whereas Pacquiao only has the speed working for him. ” After Pacquiao demolished him, he’s all of a sudden shot? Give Pac the props he deserves. Morales is only 2 years older than Pac and when they fought, he was 28, 29, and 30. So if Morales was old and past him prime when they fought, that must mean Pac is past his prime last year, but he is still getting better. Everyone knows that Ms. Manuela Perez just makes excuses about why fighters always lose to Pac. He wants Pac to fight Marquez again, but if Pac KO’s Marquez, then Ms. Manuela Perez will say that Marquez was past his prime too and Pac was just picking on an old man. He’s too busy pleasuring himself to JMM pics than that he can’t give Pac his proper dues.
d tell me, could manny reach this far, or could he have the fame he receive today if he had not beaten those guys?? marquez became famous because of their issue between pacquiao.. On the other hand, as what roach said mayweather had a day to choose pacquiao but he prefer marquez.. why?? bcoz he is afraid of pacquiao.. mayweather knock hatton at the tenth round pacquiao made it two.. mayweather never knock dela hoya out.. Lastly, if you could recall one judge on the marquez-pacquiao 1 admitted he was wrong with the scoring it would have been won by pacquiao.. it would be better if we could see marquez facing pacquiao on the third time so he could taste another KO ango all the way of retiring…
I THINK PEREZ NEEDS 2 COME OFF THE COMPUTER….GO 2 HIS ROOM….KICK OFF HIS SHOES…MAKE SUM HERBAL TEA…DRINK THE TEA…LIE BACK ON HIS BED…..AND GO F*** HIMSELF FOR WRITING SO MANY NOSENSICAL ARTICLES AND WASTIN EVERYONE’S TIME
What about the number of old, shot fighters DLH fought?
Are you blind? When I read your articles I Wonder if Stevie wrote it (get it)? No matter who Pacman beats you will criticize him. I am a black man but as I said before, I want to see great fights between great fighters. If one man destroys the other in a pick-em fight, or in a fight where he is the underdog, how can the loser suddenly be an old or shot fighter?
I liked DLH and PBF in their early days but as soon as they started getting decisions I thought they didn’t deserve, I got suspicious. Pacman’s fights were close with JMM and I would not scream theft if it went the other way.
Judges see it how they see it, but Pacman knocked him down in each fight so accept it and give him the edge. ! Manny has speed, power and charm. Great assets to be a star in boxing.
My biggest beef with this article is that all that fights you mention were fights that the public demanded. Everybody made excuses for why MAB lost their first fight, Morales being shot, Oscar being weight drained etc but before these fights were made, nobody gave Manny a shot at winning. I agree that Morales was past it when the third fight rolled around, but who could have predicted he would look that bad after their incredible second fight? With the De La Hoya fight, that came out of nowhere and there were supposedly plans to fight Campbell or Juan Diaz. Oscar was the one who called out Manny and with the amount of money involved, they would have been stupid not to oblige. Again, 90% of the boxing “experts” gave Manny no chance. Oscar WAS weight drained, but who’s fault was that really? Oscar claimed to be in the best shape of his life and if Nacho felt that he couldn’t be competitive, I’m sure he wouldn’t have let him get into the ring. David Diaz was a cherry picked fight, but it wasn’t expected to be as one-sided as it was. Both fights with JMM could have gone either way, but unfortunately for your boy outboxing your opponent isn’t the be all and end all of a fight. While JMM may have won more total rounds than Manny, he unfortunately hit the canvas and that made all the difference in the world scoring-wise. As Jay-Z said, “cry me a river, build a bride and get over it”.
Your hate for Pacquiao is getting old Pelez. Why does Manure Pelez write so many onesided and hateful articles? Because he is the Anti-Pac; evil incarnate, lord of darkness, eater of unborn duck babies…. oh wait a second… that’s me. Lol! Dude you need to eat a Balut and chill. Who knows you might actually like it.
Mr. Perez, is RH old or shot? Or JMM old or shot – b/c he’s going after the ex-P4P #1 in PBF. JMM beat Casamayor, the baby bull, are they shot fighters also b/c JMM (by your standard is a old/shot fighter). Like so many b4 me has said…its not that all the fighters that MP fights are old and shot…it’s just that when they fight a fighter at the level where MP is…MP makes them look old and shot. And I thought RH was at his prime, he was just as fast as MP, he was stronger than MP and was the biggest fighter that MP has ever fought against. We all know, don’t we Mr. Perez, what happened later; right? RH got KTFO’d in the 2nd round.
When Manny makes the fight close (Marquez) the critics will say he should have lost that fight or he’s nota great fighter (Larios). When Manny demolishes opponents, they are old or past prime. You can’t win against haters.
IT’S NOT BECAUSE PACQUIAO FIGHTS SO MANY OLD AND SHOT FIGHTERS. IT’S BECAUSE PACQUIAO FORCES THEM TO BE OLD AND SHOT. AMEN.
The question is why do these loser wanna fight the Pacman? I think you’re forgetting the fact is they want him not the other way around. I realize it’s painful to accept the truth on your part but, beating Pacquiao is a dream come true for them (and you). Unfortunately their dreams turn into nightmares when they get into the ring. I think your boy Floyd is avoiding a fight with Pac. He could have waited, he chose not to. Go figure.
Wow you must still be annoyed that Pacquiao beat up on all your mexican fighters. You’re pathetic.
Till Manny Destroys the following worthy opponents…no one will recognize his achievements…now, in no particular order
1. Batman without the help of Robin
2. T-rex…they will eventually bring one back to life.
3. Voltes 5…yes all 5 of them including the little kid
4. Megatron…the one from the live action movie
5. Ali and Mike Tysons kid geneticly modified to be be a boxer with 6 arms.
6. Mr. Bean…but he might be gettin a little older too
7. Hulk Hogan
8.Vitali Klitchko
9.That gigantic white boy in the Tony Jaa Movies and Troy with Brad Pitt
10.Chuck Norris…I’m not betting on Manny to win this one…he might not even make it out if the dressing room.
you forget that DLH was favorite for the Pacquiao fight.
he fought diaz when he was in his prime ???
he fought hatton when he was in his prime ?????
and he smashed both of them,
and he is going to smash Mayweather in too.
and i want him to fight the WBC light welterweight champ, then either mosley & cotto.
Pacquiao were to go against someone who is under 30 years old, you’ll say that Pacquiao is picking on someone with less experience. Anyone over 30 is considered washed-up. If Pacquiao were to fight Marquez again and win, you’ll say that Marquez was washed up and that Pacquiao should’ve fought him earlier. You bragged about Hatton and put him down as fast as Pacquiao did. So, you’ll never get an answer to your question because there are no abled bodies to go up against Pacquiao.
WHATS NEXT FOR PACMAN ??
Mayweather and the WBC light welterweight champ, then maybe shane mosley or cotto, then retire as a bloody legend
If Pacquiao were to go against someone who is under 30 years old, you’ll say that Pacquiao is picking on someone with less experience. Anyone over 30 is considered washed-up. If Pacquiao were to fight Marquez again and win, you’ll say that Marquez was washed up and that Pacquiao should’ve fought him earlier. You bragged about Hatton and put him down as fast as Pacquiao did. So, you’ll never get an answer to your question because there are no abled bodies to go up against Pacquiao. Name all you want, but most likely, Pacquiao has beaten them before or are not in the same level. Tell me, who would you like to see him against? Who would have no excuses if he lost to Pacquiao? What I’d like to see is a fighter who will not have an excuse when Pacquiao beats him. JMM did a duet with Nacho Beristain and put on quite a performance after they both cried their way to a #1 hit. That cry was on top of the charts for a few weeks. If you listen carefully, they still play that hit once in a while on HBO. De la Hoya is a prick. He predicted that Hatton would get revenge on Pacquiao for him. Now, he’s going to have to rely on Mosley for that. Well, I believe Oscar’s #1 hit “A Shell of Me” is available everywhere. Since he can’t sell his skills, he might as well sing a song about it. It’s a good thing that DLH is Manny’s idol. If he wasn’t, just imagine what he would’ve done to him. If you feel sorry for Pacquiao’s dog, then you’ll feel worse about DLH. At least Pacquiao’s dog was good for something. Now, everyone thinks that DLH is a joke. If you look carefully, no one really cares for him. He looks like an idiot smiling for the camera, hiding his shame.
Please let there be a man to fight Pacquiao. Maybe we all would get more out of the 50 bucks we spend watching him. After the De la Hoya and Hatton fights, my girlfriend said that De la Hoya can fight a shell of her so that he would start winning again. She felt really bad for him.
Pacquiao takes the fights that are made for him. He is not as selective as other fighters, but like other fighters, he goes where the money is. People wanted to see the Barrera fights because they were entertaining and compelling. Morales won the first fight with Pacquiao, and when he lost the second there was enough drama that people wanted a third fight. With Oscar and Hatton people thought Pacquiao was not going to be able to deal with the size and power of the two bigger fighters even though Pacquiao was the better boxer with more speed.
Pacquiao will continue to fight whoever is out there. Eventually someone better will come along. Tp say that he only fights old shot fighters is ridiculous, but then it is a Manuel Perez article so we can only expect stupidity.
To be fair, Pacquiao made Hatton look silly. I still think had hatton have come out with them tactics against say timothy bradley, they would have worked against bradley. But PAcquiao is used to being in fast fights, so when someone like hatton runs at him, its bread and butter for pacquaio. A combination of Pacquiao’s power and hattons stupid tactics. I actually believe that if a fight can be made with mayweather, it will happen. Mayweather doesnt like bob arum is the only potential slip i can see, but if golden boy promotions get involved on behalf of mayweather, i cant see why it wouldnt happen. i just wonder whether pacquiao will take on a warm up fight just to stay fresh. Why not take bradley on for the titles, its a fight he’d no doubt win, become a world champion and then be ready for mayweather or marquez 3 in november/decemeber.
. manny made hatton look shot. the same hatton who was supposedly world class against mallinagi some 6 months or so ago. could it be to do with the fact that manny is nicknamed the mexican destroyer, mr.m.perez? get over hattons loss cos he has and manny is the best at the moment. live with it. what are you going to say if he beats floyd or marquez? are they going to become shot fighters over 12 rounds? or even cotto?
This is the same excuse you gave when money beat ODLH. You said there is no way Manny can beat a Hatton. Manny just makes all his opponents look slow and old….give credit to this guy. He’s a humble and professional fighter. His humility is a true Filipino quality.