Riiight ...
Some one of DLH's stature wouldn't do that for tens of millions of dollars in order to ruin a career where he's been already been beaten and knocked out.
And I forgot that we have such big boxing fans here that they know what DLH can and has done in the past enough to be able to evaluate the situation.
Okay. Well, I've seen Pacquiao lose to much smaller and less skilled men that DLH. I've seen Pacquiao actually outboxed by one dimensional boxers who were lightweights. I've seen Pacquiao knocked out by flyweights before, but DLH, who is not speedy but by no measure slow, couldn't hit him once enough to hurt him? Hell even a fat and old George Foreman was able to land one punch!
And what makes this is obvious is that Manny himself is a one dimensional boxer, who only throws a jab, then another jab followed by a straight left. He may have had power at lightweight but that power did not translate to the power of a middleweight.
Oscar has taken much worse beating from Quartey, Mosley, Sturm, and Hopkins ... all heavier men who hit harder than Pacquiao yet couldn't put him away before the 9th?????
I could care less about predictions. I know boxing and I know that Manny Pacquiao, who once got beaten by freakin Erik Morales ain't going up to fight a middleweight and winning by standing right in front of him. Pacquiao stood right in front of a bigger, stronger and more pwerful puncher and traded with him throughout the fight without even having to move anything but his head. I've seen boxers who have much better evasive skills than Pacquiao like Forbes try that and DLH was able to handle that tactic.
I'm not going to get pulled into a war of words over it, as I'm sure more than half the people here didn't even see the fight. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but fixes aren't something uncommon in boxing. Especially when one fighter doesn't even attempt to fight in the manner that you have watched him over the last decade or so.
Even old, over-the-hill boxers try to fight and win like they have before regardless if it works at that point or not. DLH stood there, threw jabs that actually got countered by a man with significantly shorter reach(6 inches!) and barely if ever went to where he should have been punching all night: the body.
That's like saying that if Favre couldn't throw a ball 20 yards and no injury was ever reported, the press wouldn't accuse him of throwing the game. Even if every pass Favre threw got intercepted, it would be more acceptable than if he just appeared not to be able to throw a pass 20 yards. No one would believe it and everyone would say that they know that he's capable, washed up or not, of throwing accurate passes much, much longer than that.
Yet everyone here is typing that they believe that DLH couldn't close the distance, fire off at the body, land the longer jabs(6 inch difference), and withstand Paquiao's lightweight power when the majority of Pacquiao's punches didn't even land cleanly? I got news for you
boxing fans. Paquiao wasn't sitting on his punches. In fact, Pacquiao was reaching to land most of the clean shots he did land, meaning that coupled with the fact that he was carrying lightweight power and DLH was often moving away from Manny's power, he wasn't really hurting DLH.
Yet DLH couldn't answer the bell for the 9th?!?!?!?!?!
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Originally Posted by GQchris Mayweather didn't even mess up Oscar's face when they fought, and you think Mayweather would dismantle Pacman, lol. |
I don't even think Pacquiao could take Hatton or Clottey, let alone Mayweather. In fact, I don't think Pacquiao would be able to take a prime Arturo Gatti. The Gatti that fought Mickey Ward would be a huge problem for Manny. Styles make fights, and this is why the "One dimensional midget beating the tall & versatile middleweight" doesn't make sense in the game of boxing.
Boxing is a game of inches, and until you understand that you won't understand why this was a sham. A guy 5'6 only going after headshots with a man who is 5'11 means one thing and one thing only: The bigger man isn't throwing any offense that would make the smaller man hesitant about doing just about anything.
Hell, even Mike Tyson, arguably one of the most systematic and devastating punchers in boxing history, had to work and dodge his way inside before he could begin landing head shots against his opponents ... all of whom were taller than him and had a longer reach. He would kill the body to make the head fall, the method that most shorter boxer use to beat bigger, taller men. Mike would have had to otherwise leap in to land any real power shots to the head of his opponents who were 4-6 inches taller. Also, the reason Tyson was able to dodge most of the jabs that would definitely kept him on the outside was his phenomenal head and torso movement. Once he abandoned that practice we saw were his career went.
Yet Pacquiao is able to move his head a little bit and perfectly dodge everyone of DLH's punches and then effectively counterpunch? I would have believed it if Pacquiao had demonstrated a strategy that seemed like he was actually
doing something to prevent DLH from trying to fight, but he wasn't. He was simply punching all night long because DLH's offense NEVER showed up. It wasn't a fight. A fight implies that two opposing forces keep trying to gain an advantage. DLH
NEVER tried to gain an advanatge. He wasn't
discouraged from trying. He simply just never really tried.
And for people to think that people of DLH's stature wouldn't throw a fight shows their own naitivity. If he wins he may win a couple of million. If he throws it despite being the favorite and makes himself and his partners over 100 million, what makes more sense? His legacy isn't important to him anymore because he's lost every important milestone match in his career. What is he going to lose by making a smart business decision?
Am I trying to convince any of you? Hell no. There's no prize to be won here by swaying anyone to agree with me. Believe what you want. I'm just giving my reasons for stating that a Pacquiao win would be a sham and facts that back it up.
Truthfully, if I did miss Brewer for any reason it would be because he actually did know his boxing.