Buboy: We’ve [Pacquiao] got to control Marquez’s counter-punching

By Boxing News - 10/03/2012 - Comments

Image: Buboy: We've [Pacquiao] got to control Marquez's counter-punchingBy Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s helper Buboy Fernandez is hard at working trying to come up with a scheme to try and nullify Juan Manuel Marquez’s counter punching for their big Las Vegas, Nevada fight on December 8th on pay per view. Buboy has it figured out what it will take for Pacquiao to beat Marquez. Besides not letting Marquez step on Pacquiao’s feet throughout the fight, Buboy believes that Marquez can be beaten IF Pacquiao can handle his counter punching.

Buboy said to examiner.com “We’re [Buboy means Pacquiao] always on the offensive and often times we forget to defend that’s why Marquez’s punches get though…The most important thing is how we’re going to handle Marquez’s counter-punching.”

It looks like Buboy doesn’t quite grasp the principals behind what a counter-puncher is all about. You can’t really depend against a counter puncher because by nature they’re going to land each time a fighter like Pacquiao throws a shot. By making a choice to throw a punch, Pacquiao is going to have to accept the reality that he’s going to get hit in return from Marquez.

There’s no getting around that, and Buboy can think hard and long about trying to come up with a strategy to defeat Marquez’s counter punching but he’s not going to be able to stop it. It’s impossible. The only Pacquiao can keep from getting hit with counter shots is if he doesn’t throw any shots at all period. Marquez is the best counter puncher in the game and Buboy isn’t going to be able to come up with anything to defeat that.

Believe me, if Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is helpless to stop Marquez’s counter punching then how is Buboy, Pacquiao’s helper person going to come up with a plan? I can just imagine some of the ideas Buboy might come up with for Pacquiao, and I hope for his sake he doesn’t follow them because he’ll get beaten worse than he did in the three prior fights with Marquez.



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