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Can Barrera Chalk-up an Upset?


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Recently, I watched the fights of Manny Pacquiao that commenced from November 2003 to April 2007.

His opponents that I picked up in the span of four years were Marco Antonio, Manuel Marquez, Eric Morales ( I, II, III tussles), and Jorge Solis (the latest).

In those bouts, I have the following conclusions:

One: Manny is still a one dimensional fighter where his right hand serves as a jab cum decoy before he launches his killer left straight or hook.

Two: The improvement of his right hand called - Manila Ice - was all hyped that even Solis did not respect.

It was a global knowledge that all his opponents on the said span of years were decked by his left hand bomb -- a national patrimony that gives a lot of glory and saving grace to this scandal-ridden country Philippines.

Since his razor-thin-debacle escaped from the boxing lesson Marquez gave him, the innovations I saw on this fighter is his timing by not over reaching every time he lunged his left shots.

Moreover, he has a below average cover on his face that was penetrated numerously by long range missile man Morales.

Basing on news releases and betting odds, Pacquiao is favored tremendously than Barrera.

But we should not under estimate the latter.

He is a dangerous fighter than the damaged Morales. His haymaker is faster than Marquez.

His mauling by Pacquiao was indeed a bad night. Blame it on the forest conflagration that gutted his training area, his incessant visits to the state doctors because of the brouhaha spawned by the metal embedded on his skull, and the resultant miniscule 50 rounds of sparring he accumulated -- a far cry to the 150 average training sessions by elite boxers.

Likewise, Pacquiao was an overnight substitute opponent he thought would be a good experiment for his tune -up of his rubber match with Morales.

As a consequence, he was the casualty of Pacquiao's left Big Bertha as he stood courageously but freeze.

On the span of the said years, Pacquaio still shows the following vulnerabilities:

One: During his stances or after he unload his right jabs, the said hand has a tendency to lower its guard.

For the umpteenth time, this observation was a hole where his said opponents were able to smack his face.

Two, the right uppercut and right straight of Solis hit his face for several times.

Three: Same porous ness of his guard when he met Barrera and Marquez. Solis palpably emulated this strategy by firing a combination of straights and uppercuts on the body of the Filipino boxing commandante.

Four: Pacman had seemingly difficult time setting an angle to a busy and moving Solis -- though he smoked out the latter through his left bombs.

Since Barrera was fighting an almost the same Manny, he can rely on his flexibilities as a complete pugilist, and a fight plan based on the boxing counter punching clininc given by Marquez against the Pacman in Rounds 2 to 12 in their 2004 tiff.

So with this kind of observation, can Barrera chalk-up an upset to the heavily favored Filipino?


Click here to view a list of other articles written by Mortz Marcelo Ortigoza.


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