Arum explains why Pacquiao has looked so bad in sparring, says he’s saving his best for Margarito
October 16th, 2010
By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter put a nice spin on why Manny Pacquiao has been looking so ragged in his sparring sessions lately as he trains for his up and coming November 13th fight against Antonio Margarito, saying in an article at abs-cbnnews.com “At this point you don’t want to turn it on, because you’ve got to save it for the fight.”
Pacquiao looked exhausted and old at times in his fight with Joshua Clottey in March, and it was if Pacquiao had aged five years between fights. Putting on weight, even if it’s muscle, is hard on your body. It causes your heart to have to work harder and it messes with your cardiovascular system. That’s why fighters with a lot of muscle of aren’t particularly good at fighting long distance fights. They do well in the first few rounds and then wear down quickly, especially if you set a high pace for them. Margarito looks to be training to set a real high pace in this fight, and as ragged as Pacquiao is looking from the weight gain and whatever else is plaguing him, he may not be up for it.
I think Pacquiao is going to have problems and likely lose this fight unless he can get Margarito out of there early like he did with Ricky Hatton last year.
Arum continues with his spin on Pacquiao, saying “All in all, its good, Most of it is satisfactory.” Yeah, the Titanic was going really well until it hit the iceberg. I don’t think the training is going good at all, and it’s showing clearly that Pacquiao is having problems.
Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach, as is his custom, continues to see only rosy predictions for Pacquiao, saying “It’s nine rounds. It’s okay.” Roach is convinced Pacquiao will stop Margarito in eight or nine rounds. This is a line that Roach has been parroting for a while now in interviews. However, he was dead wrong in his prediction about Pacquiao’s last fight against Clottey. In that one, Roach predicted yet another knockout win for the Filipino fighter and also said it would be an exciting fight.
You could see it wouldn’t be going into the bout, but yet Roach said it would be an exciting fight. It turned out to be one of the most boring fights in memory, and Pacquiao never came close to stopping Clottey. If anything, if the fight had been a 15 round bout, I think it would have been more likely that Pacquiao would have been stopped rather than Clottey, because Pacquiao took a beating in that fight.
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how can he say pacman look old and tired against clottey the man threw close to 200 hundred punches every round
@zdrx
I wouldn’t totally agree about this being a respectable boxing site, not with writers like Dave Lahr & Chris Williams writing bias articles about Pacquiao & the Klitschkos, bashing them all the time. It’s articles from them that stir up all this racial non sense, intentionally!
As for P4P clown, Failapino, Midgets Can’t Jump. If you observe their comments, they all seem to be coming from the same person, formally AnakNgHueteng or Tic Tic. I believe he is Filipino, and hates his own race. He repeats the same comments over and over again! Obviously trying to get attention. Maybe he is disguted about his own life! Always complaining!
zdrx what the f**k has this 2 do with boxing
@P4P clown
There is thousands of Filipino Americans serving in all branches of the U.S. armed forces still serving in Iraq & Afghanistan. They never left!
the p4p clown midget just gone… I am sure he learned lots today…
zdrx – hayaan mo na yan. nasa likod kasi yan ng computer eh. baka nga hindi na makatulog yan pag nakakita ng pugot na ulo…
lolz. Philippines got a never ending war in mindanao and mountains of luzon and visayas against rebel groups. You talk as if you experienced fighting in a war. I will tell you once again, You prove nothing, Get a psychiatric test together with your Idol loud mouth coward Floydie.
you are the real clown here…
Again.. you prove nothing…… In the end you just made yourself looked like a fool. just like your idol FLoydie girl who’s now hiding on his cave.
@ Manny Pacquiao THE P4P CLOWN
The real reason why Filipino soldiers leave Iraq is that they found out that they are being used by the Americans. The US attacked Iraq on the pretense that there are nuclear arsenal but the fact is, there is none. The reason why they destroyed Iraq is military adventurism. And worst, after destruction of Iraq, American construction companies were tasked to rebuild Iraq and paid by the new Iraqi government even against their will.
Too much talking.. as if you can survive in the forests of mindanao nor even the streets of manila. You talk nothing but nonesense. Too much cheap talk of yours. You dont even know that a filipino soldier is considered one of the elites of the world. You ain’t have an idea what’re you saying. You only fooling yourself. What an Idiot you are.
Too much talking… sign of being a coward. just like under.
@midget.. stick to boxing kid,, with your post you make yourself looks stupid, who cares about your iraq and swat thing? if really hate those midgets, next time you see them around, go and kill em! and thats will really makes your black ass brave.
I read these blogs by the midgets and it makes me laugh!!!
The midgets are quick to call someone else a coward, yet their bravest…I repeat their bravest…ran from Iraq before they even fired their weapons. The Iraqi’s made them lay down their weapons ad run!!! They RAN!!!
The tough swat team allowed innocent people to be killed on a bus, and the killers just simply wealked away.
The cried and surrendered to the Japaneses without even trying, hoping the Americans would lay down their lives to save them.
All races around the world have their way with your women. They especially love black men…I wonder why?
ALL I CAN SAY IS…WHAT A COWARDLY RACE OF PEOPLE!!! EVEN YOUR IDOL MUST CHEAT BY DRAINING AND DEHYDRATING PEOPLE TO GAIN AN ADVANTAGE.I DO NOT DOUBT AT ALL THAT HE IS GETTING INJECTIONS OR INJESTING SOMETHING ILLEGAL.
FILIPINO’S ARE ALL COWARDS…WHEN I HEAR THEM CALL ANYONE A NAME OF ANY KIND, YOU HAVE TO LAUGH AT THESE PROPLE…
i dont think so. then why pacquiao refused to face shane mosley twice for the catch-weight of 142 welterweight. instead he manage to get the paper-belt of cotto. where we all know that margarito dismantled cotto when cotto is beast and undefeated.
mosley lose to cotto when cotto was undefeated and more than a year from now. they say mosley was robed and mosley should win the fight and not cotto.
then margarito destroy cotto’s career. and became number 1 welterweight. then why cotto????????????
pacquiao would probably like to face damage fighter which is not dangerous at all. (chosen carefully)
I’ve seen the pacquiao/margarito face to face on hbo 24/7
roach taking trash talk in face of margarito like. -i saw your last 2 fights. we gonna knock you out in later rounds.
hmmmm… in simple short word.
your wasnt like margarito before. the ring rust affected you more. your too slow for pacquaio and you lose to mosley and im not satisfied on your latest fight against no name garcia at jr.middleweight.
then why margario, margarito wasnt legitimate jr.middle or super welterweight.
why not paul williams, sergio martinez who like to go down at 147,154 and go to full middleweight. or other elite prime boxer at 154 division.
in fact roach want margarito to suffer more even without the fight got stared because roach and pacquiao want margarito to get drained at 151 catch-weight instead of 154 and get margarito feel free for the weight he has to be.
margarito is more that 154 form now. he gain weight like he’s 160 or maybe 165lbs. thats why suffered more to lose extra muscle.
margarito had been suspended last yr. so he obviously gain more weight then he try to go up by weight by fighting at 154 in his last fight against garcia. its easy to get the 154 other that the 151.
smart move for roach to see that or maybe a good plan for bob arum. i think its fixed man.
why uncle bob too desperate to made this match-up. he personally get margarito’s licensed and if not why on abudabi or so whatever place have got to. in fact there was plenty of good boxer and legitimate 154 pounder who have the belt on there side. why its always on bob arum stable??????
peace…
M Marley on his recent article on the Examiner is hoping that PAC should give a satisfactory fight with Margo if PAC wants a fight with Floyd.
He added ” If PAC looks sensational on his fight, he might completely drive Mayweather off the radar”. Being sensational might be the final straw in driving the reluctant Mayweather deeper into his bunker”.
So an impressive KO win by PAC might jeopardise a mega fight with Pink Floyd.
So this news of PAC looking bad in sparring is a ray of hope that fight would be just a satisfactory win for PAC and not a sensational win. We don’t want to scare Roger, Floyd Sr and Floyd Jr away.
Please dont sell your soul Margarito!!!!! yall so silly, thinking pactard is going to beat Margarito. pactard s going to be all juiced up but he aint going to be focused and hes going to pull of the kermit cintron move when he feels Margaritos power punches.
toma tu distancia margarito muevete! cuando se acerque tira combinaciones! y muevete! todos pienan que te le vas a dejar ir ensima desde el primer round! deja que se canse! luego lo precionas y lo noqueas! animo! viva el bicentenario!
floyd and fans are all alike, full of excuses.
@ November Diez Y Tres
even grade schoolers knew there is always a test before and after every fight, moron!!!
@Mr. Romero you for good looking
It’s funny how people comment on MAY when the article is about PAC…..also, STOP TRYING TO SELL THIS FIGHT!!!
Pacquiao needs to party and drink beer the day before the fight so that it would be a good fight. That’s good Pacquiao doesn’t look good on his sparring at least it would be a good fight. If Pacquiao look good in his sparring then it would be like the Hatton fight.
after all this stipulation that pac is using peds , that pac is still going to use ped if pac/floyd happens.
Does anybody know if there is a test involved in this fight?
Will anybody be checking Alex Ariza’s milkshakes?
a lot of fans licking and sucking pacnut’s testicles. how come i don’t hear anybody does the same thing with floydie? oh yeah,,,HEA DOESN’T HAVE ONE !!! aaaah ha ha ha!
im a pacnut and i licked and sucked pacballs 24/7
im a pacnut and i licked and sucked pacballs 24/7
PACTARDS ARE ALL GETTING NERVOUS NOW… LOLZ
it’s always the same story about pac not training properly,believe me he is,he knows margarito is strong and will not quit or run around the ring,he’s going to fight..pac will be prepared and i have a feeling if pac loses,we’ll see a lot of excuses from his fans,but it won’t surprise me one bit if margarito wins
Manny was never tired in the clotty fight and will be fine in the margarito fight manny will win this won no problem margarito’s nothing with out his wraps
ROACH: i saw your last 2 fights
MARGO: does he see me crippled?
ROACH; you will be after the fight
@ midgets can’t jump: midget doesn’t have to jump to kick some ass. just balls which little floydiot doesn’t have. BTW, where is that little coward?
a lot of jealous floydiots and margiots will be crying and moping in their seats as soon as pac gets his 8th title. aaahhh ha ha ha! i don’t think margo will give a s hit. he’s just in for the money and happy enough his back in the bussiness. but little floydie shuld be in a suicide watch when pac gets his 8th.
what kind of people idolizes cheaters and woman beaters? ANS: FLOYDIOTS AND MARGOTS!
PAC will knock Margo out inside of 8 rounds. “I saw your last two fights”.
I hope Margarito trains like a mad man, takes this fight as serious as bad breath. The best thing for boxing would be a Margarito win.
What would follow would be Pacquiao fighting for lost respect from the island midgets. If he ever faced a ranked opponent, his clock would get rung loudly.
Arum is selling you $#!t in caramel wrap. LOL. Margo is just happy to get his biggest paycheck. Heck, he wasn’t even sure he would be allowed to fight again before this fight was arranged. He’s takin’ a dive so deep he gonna reach the bottom of Marianas Trench. LOL. Cheer, Pacnuts, cheer. You are as shallow as your cross-eyed, midget god. It must be the balut and bagoong you eat. LMAO.
@ Hahahhahahaha
Floidiots still love a woman beater..
I always read articles about how Pacquiao looks bad in sparring before the fights, its the same everytime so I’m not falling for it this time. I bet he’s going to come in prepared for a hard fight
Fans can’t trust a single word from these Top Rank people. Pacquiao could lose, Pacquiao’s not training properly, Pacquiao is sick…Top Rank is only trying to sell the fight! Trying to bring interest to an uninteresting event.
Who cares about Pacquiao’s sparring. Let’s talk about the Floyd Mayweather Jr and Roger Mayweather going to jail for assaulting a woman. PRETTY BOY!
Single dumbest explanation I’ve heard in a long time.
LMAO.
Rob And-run aka Rob A-bum speaks out of both sides of his mouth at the same time. But no matter, Manny will win!
Manny was taken off PED’S when Roach thought he’d be fighting Floyd.I believe it was to test how he would do clean.I have never seen Manny in his last 4 fights prior to Clottey look and sound so tired.
Houston we have a problem….
Ill catch it on replay. Nothing wrong with Manny. The fix is in people. Don’t let Arum or Roach fool you. Top Stank has done it again.
margarito will walk him down and wear him down and stop him in later rounds
I`m a living Legend..
PEDS are now having their toll on his body.
I,m not buying it.