Pacquiao Perfection – Boxing
November 16th, 2009
By Trevor Weis: During the undercards on Saturday night, Miguel Cotto sat ringside with his family, preparing for the inevitable battle that awaited. Hardening himself, the World Boxing Organization welterweight champion probably didn’t anticipate confessing to the world, “Manny is one of the best fighters of all time.”
Against Freddie Roach’s advice, Pacquiao languished on the ropes a bit, testing Cotto’s punching power. And that question seems to be answered: Manny Pacquiao can take the best punches from a full-fledged welterweight—he walked through the “stronger man’s” best shots for twelve rounds. In the fourth round, Pacquiao landed a brilliantly placed left uppercut, penetrating Cotto’s guard, his eyes rolling back as he stumbled to the canvas for the second time.
Cotto won round five with effective jabs and a measured attack, Pacquiao taking a rest after two consecutive 10-8 rounds. However, from round six on, Pacquiao controlled the fight, thrashing Cotto with blistering combinations from all angles. Pacquiao boxed on his toes beautifully early on and hunted flat-footed relentlessly to close the show. Pacquiao seemed to debilitate Cotto, the infamous body puncher, with every blow downstairs. In full retreat, the fight could have been justifiably called in the ninth round, Cotto back-pedaling from corner to corner, unable to adjust to the fight Manny dictated; Cotto’s wife and son left the arena before the bell ended the round.
Chief second Joe Santiago gave no technical advice to his fighter between rounds. Instead, a sense of mayhem and desperation ensued; Miguel even kissed his father between rounds, as if to say ‘I will weather this…’ But the Pacquiao-storm continued. Pacquiao grinned when hit flush by Cotto, beat his gloves together as he methodically stalked the defending champion, and often stopped in frustration, as if to say ‘I thought this was a fight…’ Even so, Cotto showed his true courage and warrior’s heart as he stayed on his feet until Kenny Bayless waived the fight in the last round. Out-classed and aware of the outcome that loomed ahead, Miguel Cotto demanded to go out on his own terms.
In the aftermath of the most-anticipated fight of the year, a new welterweight champion has emerged. All questions regarding Pacquiao’s previous victories over De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton should be laid to rest. All doubts regarding Manny’s abilities against a legitimate welterweight champion have been undeniably removed. And the case for Pacquiao’s pound for pound supremacy continues to solidify, a debate that Freddie Roach wants resolved in 2010.
Manny Pacquiao continues to exceed all expectations, winning a record-breaking and historical seven championship belts in seven different weight classes, outselling the one million PPV buys recorded for Floyd Mayweather’s comeback fight in September, continually dominating bigger opponents in scintillating fashion. The popular question seems to be “Is Manny Pacquiao good enough to beat Floyd Mayweather?” But after making yet another career-defining emphatic statement in the middle of the ring, Pacquiao clearly states, “Is Floyd Mayweather good enough to beat me?” Fans of the Sweet Science eagerly wait with baited breath for the answer they deserve.
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sorry pacquiao fans, we underestimated pacman…. promise we will write a little bit of good articles about your hero pacquiao – the catchweight champion of boxing hahahaha.
dan rafael, emmanuel steward, dela hoya, angello dundee, george foreman, they all cant accept the fact that boxing is an illusion to many americans. the sport is dominated by one man and hes not even american. for me, manny pacquiao is the greatest. hes a mixture of sugar ray and marvin hagler in one and has the heart of smoking joe frazier.
No question about Pacquiao perfection – just interested about weight in the welterweight division. Will the weight of natural Mayweather Jr outweigh the advantages of Manny? Or any rulings in the weights as Manny is the welterweight belt holder? Any answer thanks.
Yes, I too would like to know what happend to Manuel Perez. I would like to read all of his excuses… Come on man, fess up
Mr. Manuel Perez,
Please join Liam Santiago in the reality show “The Biggest Loser”
Your lying tongue is “also” 2 lbs. heavy to win you that title – The Biggest Loser!
ahahahaha. Ahohohoho.
Christmas is so early in November I am having so much fun with the 2 of you.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahaha.
Good luck to Manuela and Liam I hope you honor the word that you promise to stop writing if Pacman win.To Manuela and Liam please don’t show your name anymore because you have no more face to write any article on this site anymore.Because most reader consider you now as a moron writer in this site.
nice comment, bakser. Made me lough real hard! But seriously pacquiao will be in a fight, rather a running contest against mayweather.
mayweather wont win. how can he? manny will see 8 diffrent opennings and pound them all within a second. he can’t block them all no way! manny is rediculous a 12 round hard fight is easy for him! its a light spar compared to his training. and when he eventually fights floyd if he ever does (imo he doesnt need to every one knows hes the ultimate p4p) hell be even stronger faster and more dominating!
You know what? Mayweather is BETTER than Cotto. And even MUCH BETTER than Pacquiao.
Mayweather can BACKPEDAL faster than Cotto, and Mayweather can OUTRUN Pacquiao so he won’t get hit coz it HURTS.
Quoting PBF: “I don’t want to blemish my 40-0 record, so I’ll start running right now so I can run away from Manny on 2010. Liam Santiago and Manuel Perez will be my running mates.”
Hahaha!
Pac has left Marquez behind in the dust so he better stay away, now, Floyd vs Pacman,
Well, Pac can take a welters punch but in the beginning Cotto showed the plueprint to beating him with good, fast countering and timing,
Floyd wont get tired and can do that for 12 rounds, only faster and with better defense so I give him the edge.
MAYWEATHER IS BORING AND DOESNT DESERVE ANY MORE ATTENTION!
FFS P-Will’s in middleweight. If he’s that good anyway he should be slugging it out with the bigboys of middleweight. I’m sure he’s a cool guy but going down to WW for an easy W something one’d expect from Floyd…but at least P-Will has the decency to abide by the weight limits.
ok ok u all say pacman is it but i say until he fights someone who is on top of their game he hasn’t proven a thing he defeat the boxers who were once champs cotto,De La hoya morales n such although Mosely is one of those i know he cant try that stuff with him and most importantly he will neva get ahead of the pretty boy.he is just too fast just too sly and too darn defensive.
PEREZ and SANTIAGO are the weakest sports writers to ever live! I’m so glad to see Pacquiao prove these two bozos wrong. Pacman totally destroyed Cotto. Every prediction those two clowns made were 100% wrong. I hope they never write a boxing article again.
pacquiao would destroy marquez if they ever fought again and I’m a big marquez fan
Wanderer is right.
@2fierce
I don’t know if you were referring to my comment but I clearly said that before their first fight and I clearly said that now, Marquez has no chance with Pacquaio in the category 140 pounds and above.
Marquez might have a chance if they fight in the same weight they last fought because Pacquaio would have difficulties going down that weight now. That’s what I said.
Hey how come everybody keeps on thinking that marquez can still beat pacman or can still go toe to toe with him, Didnt you guys notice the difference on how pacquiao fight during marquez and how he fights now? He is a way different fighter now, pacman’s arsenal and skill just grew tremendously after the marquez fight, his punching power, speed, combinations and he is a smarter boxer than before. He can actually counter punch a counter puncher now. Regard’s to Cotto He surely is a great fighter and showed good sportsmanship, and that kinda attitude is what changed a good fighter to a great fighter, cant wait for him to get back on his toe’s and prove to his critic’s that he is a wash out fighter, and did not recover after the margarito fight. ohh maybe this will prove it HE GOT THE TITTLE FROM CLOTTY AFTER THE MARGARITO FIGHT!! and clotty is not a push over fighter.
what a performance firstly pacman took his licks and fired back with awesome precision and power.floyd will have to fight the fight of his life to beat him,i’m just glad cotto’s alright coz he showed unbelievable courage!!!it was a mgnificent fight for 5rnds then it was sadly a one sided beating,but hey nobody and i mean nobody can talk smack about pacman he’s the pfp no1,if floyd wants that title back he’s gonna have to step up to the plate and face pacman.LET THE BATTLE COMMENCE!!!!!
Still, I wanna see Pacquaio vs. Mayweather to know if Manny’s speed can negate Mayweather’s slyness (running style).
With the Cotto fight, I would say pacquaio needs more training not in his boxing and speed but in his patience.
We just saw that in the later rounds, Pacquaio grew impatient chasing down the backpedaling Cotto.
If Pacquaio would fight Mayweather now, he’ll be chasing Mayweather from the start until the end so he needs more patience.
If Mayweather wins against Pacquaio by his jab and run tactic, I wouldn’t be impressed but if he wins by going head-to-head with him just like in his earlier days as an exciting fighter, I wouldn’t have any problems putting Mayweather on top of pacquiao in the list.
I would say Mayweather is not good enough to beat Pacquaio toe-to-toe but he’s good enough to outrun him and to out-wit him in getting additional weight advantage.
Mayweather has always been telling that he showed the blueprint on how to defeat their same opponents. I say that’s BS. It was Manny who showed PBF the right way to beat them. We all know that anyone who has punching power can knockdown Hatton. Mayweather just got lucky to have the first crack on him. If Hatton fought Pacman first, we would still see the same result and we wouldn’t here Pacquaio bosting that he laid the blue print to defeat Hatton.
Now, if we put credit to Mayweather’s statement then we can also say that Pacman laid the blueprint on how to defeat Marquez, just in different fashion, that is not to go toe-to-toe with Marquez. Just hit and run, for which we all know, Floyd is good at now.
That’s probably one of the reason why Mayweather chose Marquez in his comeback fight. He’s an easy prey among the top contenders. Marquez is just perfect fit in Mayweather’s style.
asians reign supreme manuel perez!
Big pacman fan but I believe, even before Pacquaio fought Marquez that the only boxers of this time who can give Pacman a hell of a fight and a chance to win against him is Marquez and Mosley simply because they are also a busy puncher and mobile to say the least.
If they can avoid much of Pacman’s power punch they have a chance of out-boxing Pacquiao but that’s the closest they can get. I don’t see them knocking him out.
Moving forward, Marquez would not stand a chance now in this weight categories where pacquaio is dominating. Marquez has only a chance if he fights pacquaio in the weight they used to fight because Pacman now has difficulty making that weight. Mosley remains a threat though with his fighting style. The only question would be, if Mosley can take Manny’s power punch. If he could, he may have a chance of out-boxing him and win a decision.
Let’s not take on Paul Williams, because I say he’s in different level. Paul Williams can’t go down the weight without draining himself. If he does, he’s height and reach advantage would simply not be a big factor anymore and pacquaio would eat him. And I don’t see Pacquaio going up a little more to fight them since there’s really no big reason to do so. He just need to fight the reigning welterweight champ in Cotto who agreed to go down in weight.
santiago and perez should be true to their words. they under estimated the speed and power of Manny Pacquiao. santiago and perez already lost their credibility as a writer.
sorry guys i am now fired damn u manny hope pbf whoop your asian a**
Does anyone think Pac can beat Paul Williams? Shane Mosley? Please don’t talk about the weight either, because Shane woulda came down to 140 even, but Pacquiao camp ducked. Paul Williams stated that he would fight any welter. I think he should fight them to be the best, but would lose both.
pacman haters.. Liam Santiago and manuel perez.. where are you? hope you enjoy your retirement.. enjoy the beach in acapulco.. hopefully you still have the money to spend in your vacation.. how much money you loss after the pacquiao fight?
LIAM SANTIAGO AND MANUEL PEREZ PREVIOUSLY DECLARED THAT THEY WILL STOP TO WRITE BOXING ARTICLE IF PACQUIAO WILL WIN OVER COTTO.. HOPEFULLY THESE TWO WRITERS ARE TRUE TO THEIR WORDS.. I DONT WANT TO SEE THEIR NAMES ON THIS WEBSITE..
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Yooohooo?!
Manuel Perez?!
I guess he did retire writing boxing articles..
Now that’s a man of his word!!!
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Even if you put extra weight on Miguel Cotto, he will still get annihilated!!! The fight was not even close… However, after the fight, I give Cotto a greater respect by showing great personality and good sportmanship unlike Manuel Marquez!!!
STILL waiting for TEAM J&J.
MGA KUPAL KAYO LAHAT
Have you seen Pacquiao do the “Rope-a-Dope” strategy in Round 4. I was like “WTF, PAC THAT WAS RISKY” and the I was completely speechless when 20 seconds later, he Knockdown Miguel for the 2nd time”
Seriously, this guy is a living legend.
don’t show your name here santiago and manuela!!
Yep, the Cotto fight certainly proved that Manny deserves his lofty status as numero uno. Would a different corner, and hence training schedule, aided Cotto any more? Good article man.
My early thoughts on Manny v Floyd would be that both move in and out quickly but Floyd has a better defence. Hey I’d love to see Manny turn ‘Money’ into ‘chump change’!