Pacquiao-Mosley: Look for Manny to stop the 39-year-old Shane on Saturday

By Boxing News - 05/05/2011 - Comments

Image: Pacquiao-Mosley: Look for Manny to stop the 39-year-old Shane on SaturdayBy Daniel Tagg: Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime – I have heard from various articles that Manny Pacquiao will knockout Shane Mosley, hurt him to the body and any other type of punch available. But what do they think happens in a boxing match, especially one with a great fighter and a legend? It seems as though fans wont be disappointed. The fight has every thing that people like to see. Manny can and will throw punches in bunches, and hard shots in combinations whilst moving around Mosley. In turn, Mosley will jab a lot and will throw his trade marque hefty hooks.

What I can’t wait to see is the condition that Manny will enter the ring in. Moving up through nine weight divisions has only given Pacquiao mope power and no draw backs. In his recent fight with Antonio Margarito, Pacquiao entered the ring weighing 17lb’s less than Margarito. But just look what happened to Margarito’s face. Manny did train hard for that fight but he didn’t do enough of it, even though he destroyed a world class fighter. Now imagine what he would have done if he had trained hard for the fight and weighed 150lb. Margarito would surely have been in bad trouble.

When Mosley fought Margarito they both weighed about the same and there wasn’t a huge 17lb difference. The outcome was not surprising either. Shane threw a lot of hooks in that fight and you know what happened.

Pacquiao on the other hand throws not as many hooks and he moves more and takes less shots. That is why Manny didn’t knock him out.

Now we have Pacquiao fighting Mosley. Both will weigh the same, but Pacquiao appears to be in the shape of his life and that means only one thing. Although there is a chance Pacquiao can KO Mosley, that’s not what I think will happen. My view is Manny gets a stoppage without the actual KO.



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