AS I keep saying, it is in boxing where you can almost hear anything, everything. From pettiness to trivialities, from impossible to improbable, they are all here. Boxing is sports? repository of nothing but?as in politics?the art of the possible.
First, Freddie Roach the trainer said Manny Pacquiao would knock Timothy Bradley out in the ninth round. Next thing you hear from Roach is, Pacquiao has become a bit slow.
How then can a slow fighter knock a fighter that moves fast and is all wind virtually like Bradley?
You are a bit slow but you can still floor a prey that seems to be constantly in motion like Bradley, who is much younger than Pacquiao?
Twice they fought and Pacquiao failed both times to knock Bradley out. How the hell can Pacquiao score a kayo in their third fight on April 10 (PHL time) in Las Vegas, Nevada? Pacquiao didn?t try to KO Bradley in two fights but he will finally do it this time?
Ah, boxing. You will get everything.
If it?s of any consequence, Bradley?s only loss thus far was inflicted by Pacquiao in their second fight?a unanimous decision verdict. The first one was Pacquiao?s, too, but the judges spoiled the sweet science once more by giving the totally outclassed Bradley a split decision win.
From a panel that reviewed the fight, it made Pacquiao the winner by unanimous decision. As if it mattered?
Listen up, fellas. Pacquiao, let?s admit it, is spring chicken no more. At 37, I honestly believe Father Time is having second thoughts on him. If you say otherwise, you aren?t simply a fan but have become a fanatic–as in a Duterte diehard like FVR?.
If it isn?t time yet to hang up those God-given gloves to PacMan, haven?t the shadows in the horizons, started lengthening for the eight-time world division champion?
I give credit to Pacquiao for bravery. Not known to predict a knockout win in a career spanning more than two decades, Pacquiao himself has said he would send Bradley to dreamland.
This, after boasting of having regained his speed and power, surely a Pacquiao phenomenon perfected, reportedly, through his patented rigorous training. Might that be the key to duplicating his last knockout win?happening in 2009 against Miguel Cotto?
In boxing, anything is possible. As in politics.
