Roach: Pacquiao has to move constantly against Marquez to win

By Boxing News - 10/10/2012 - Comments

Image: Roach: Pacquiao has to move constantly against Marquez to winBy Chris Williams: Freddie Roach seems to think he’s got the golden plan that will help his fighter Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2, 38 KO’s) finally conclusively beat 39-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (54-6-1, 39 KO’s) after having failed to establish that he’s the better guy in their three previous fights together.

Roach thinks that all Pacquiao has to do to beat Marquez this time is to use movement.

Roach said to Maxboxing.com “We’ve got to really, really get back to that perpetual motion that we had in the first fight.”

If Pacquiao is able to hop around like he used to be able to do then Roach thinks this will be enough for him to defeat the 39-year-old Marquez. Roach has noticed that since Pacquiao lost his ability to move like he did years ago, he’s taking a lot more punishment – and getting beaten. Whether Roach wants to admit it or not, Pacquiao should have two straight losses going into the fourth Pacquiao-Marquez fight on December 8th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I don’t the movement is the answer for Pacquiao, because even when he was able to move really well in his first fight with Marquez in 2004, he was still dominated from the 2nd round on in that fight. Smart fighters are easily able to handle guys that move by timing them for when they do come in and make an attack. The fighter that is doing all the moving is really hurting himself by wearing himself out with all the extra effort.

If you watch the Pacquiao-Marquez I fight in 2004, you’ll see that Marquez was ready each time Pacquiao stopped moving and came in for one of his attacks. All that wasted effort on Pacquiao’s part by jumping one way and then another and then still getting tagged by Marquez. I would hope that Roach would be clever enough to see that movement didn’t do anything for Pacquiao other than making him look silly because the wasted effort.



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