Pacquiao is starting to lose it

By Boxing News - 06/10/2012 - Comments

Image: Pacquiao is starting to lose itBy David Ishola: I’m one of those rare people who is actually a fan of BOTH Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao so have no bias towards either man and am neither a “Floydiot” or a “Pactard” and I do believe that Manny Pacquiao won last night although it was close, I’d probably say 7-5 in favor of Manny Pacquiao but I can see how the judges may have seen Timothy Bradley shade rounds.

The point though in my opinion isn’t whether Manny Pacquiao won or lost last night and more a case of is it now clear that Manny Pacquiao has rapidly lost a lot of what he had because in my mind the Manny Pacquiao of early 2006 to late 2010 would have destroyed Timothy Bradley with the fight probably not lasting any more than nine rounds because Timothy Bradley is only arguably the best Light Welterweight at best but not a special fighter.

Against Shane Mosley I noticed that Manny Pacquiao didn’t seem the same as he had done against Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito and earlier like Eric Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera and David Diaz and I thought at the time that even though the fight wasn’t close had Manny Pacquiao fought Shane Mosley even a year or two before the result could have been very different. In the fight with Juan Manuel Marquez it was even clearer than Manny Pacquiao wasn’t the same as he really struggled despite mostly being the aggressor and most people inside the boxing industry and the boxing experts saw Juan Manuel Marquez win that fight as i also did, i don’t want to hear excuses from the blind marks about Compubox as that is something done over the whole fight not round by round.

Last night was the final piece of evidence I needed to see to know Manny Pacquiao has reached his peak and was now very much in decline as this great warrior just didn’t look as if he knew how to finish Timothy Bradley when he had him any kind of trouble and rounds 10, 11 and 12 are where he really lost it in my mind because he seemed to have just stopped fighting. Of course there will be a rematch in November and I would take Manny Pacquiao to win because I simply do not rate Timothy Bradley and I would put him behind Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Victor Ortiz, Andre Berto and Juan Manuel Marquez when he fights at that weight but he really fought a good fight last night and really surprised me. What this does do though is more or less put an end to Mayweather/Pacquiao or at least it being on level terms because regardless of what I and other people think in the official books Manny Pacquiao lost and lost to someone a weight division below him.

After weeks of Freddie Roach and Alex Ariza saying Manny Pacquiao is looking great and never better it’s become clear that they are simply becoming yes men for Manny Pacquiao and rather than telling him he needs to really step it back up they are letting him cruise through and his performances have really been of concern. If Manny Pacquiao does fight Timothy Bradley in November as expected and loses that in my mind is it all over for Manny Pacquiao and he’ll retire as he has done enough to be a first ballot Hall Of Fame inductee, has won enough titles to be considered an all time great and has fought enough big names to be content in his achievements but on the back of last night I’d do all I could to make Mayweather/Pacquiao for November or December because another loss and it’s all over so I’d make that HUGE pay day as soon as possible.



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