By Chris Williams: Buboy Fernandez is busy trying to get his employer Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2, 38 KO’s) to try and turn back the time on his career to get him to where he was in the distant past so he can fight on a high enough level to beat 39-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez (54-6-1, 39 KO’s) on December 8th at the MGM Grand, Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Buboy said to Philboxing.com “Yeah, a Pacquiao remake is what we’re introducing to the boxing world in the fourth fight against Marquez…to focus on what he was doing in the early part of his career, as when he retired boxing legends Oscar De La Hoya, Marco Antonio Barrera.”
I don’t think Pacquiao retired Barrera, although he did beat him twice. Buboy seems to be a little behind on the latest Barrera news I guess. This whole concept of rebuilding an aging fighter like Pacquiao to where he was years ago seems to be a little wrong-headed if you ask me. I mean, once the aging dial is set it doesn’t go backwards just because you try and do the same things that you did in the past.
Pacquiao isn’t going to be able to fight and look the way he did when he beat De La Hoya in 2008 or how he looked in his win over Cotto in 2009. That Pacquiao is gone forever. Instead of pining away for an old Pacquiao that is long gone, Buboy should be working hard so that Pacquiao can at least fight hard for one minute of every three minute round instead of just 25 seconds.
No way I do I believe Pacquiao can go back to fighting hard for three minutes of every round, because the age is starting to rear it’s ugly head. But if Buboy can at the minimum get him back to where he was putting out effort for sixty seconds of every round then I think that would be something that is attainable for the Filipino. But no way on earth is Pacquiao going back to the fighter he was in 2008 when he whipped De La Hoya. That’s like saying Pacquiao will go back to the 6th grade and fit in perfectly with all the other 11-year-olds. It’s too late. Pacquiao is getting old now and he’s going to have to be happy with the effort that his aging body can put out for him in the Marquez fight.
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