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Manny Pacquiao Vs Edwin Valero: Will the Torch Be Violently Passed?

If you haven?t seen the Venezuelan undefeated reverberating one-punch KO wonder, check him out at your earliest convenience. They?re fast and furious, particularly his demoralization 1st round record-breaking eighteen stretched out opponents. And if I told you that he?s the most feared fighter today since the coming of Mike Tyson; rolled into a bigger puncher then Alfonso Zamora has ever been; and was one of the most underrated skillful boxers on the planet; who would you turn out to be expectant of as to who I was referring about?

Marco Antonio Barrera has made him his successor from notoriety alone, and yet he remains a mystery that is so endemic for both the casual and diehard boxing mainstream aficionado, that his thickened darkened shades hiding behind his jet black mane reminds you that of a Samson?s. And there are many who do believe his strength derives from the locks of hair that fall upon his hulking shoulders, when diminutively speaking he could be just a head length above jockey Laffit Pincay. He has had boxing writers in awe reciting his namesakes like a prayer recitation before breakfast, lunch, and dinner, including twice on Sundays.

Funny they said the same things about another fighter named Manny Pacquiao abut four or five years ago, who sits perched up no less on a galaxy being fed the notion that he needs to redeem a draw he sustained against Juan Manuel Marquez, who once overpriced his wherewithal, and has done a slamming job of provoking Filipinos for kayoing compatriots in attempts to reverse that first trespass on a three-trip to the canvas in a single round with Manny Pacquiao.

WBA Super Featherweight Champion Edwin ?The Liquidator? Valero, 22-0, 22 KO?s, has been searching for his equal ever since he?s turned pro convincing you to simply tell ?I am a stylist (boxer), saying the stately Valero, ?But I happen to hit hard, and I have 86 wins as an amateur accompanied those forty five wins by knockout.?

There is an enormous force in the leverage he gets. The southpaw takes the old adage about lefties being drowned at birth with a grain of salt, and fights like no other unorthodox fighter ever seen.

Edwin Valero knows he is young enough and gutsy enough to be a thorn on the side of Manny Pacquiao, and he knows it. Valero veered to tell Pacquiao to fight him, but Manny just looked at him with no response before the rematching Marco Antonio Barrera was at his side at the Mandalay Bay, and Barrera, at the pre-fight press immediately took to baptizing Valero as his successor, a torment it seems at the besetment of Manny Pacquiao who perhaps believed his ordeal with the ?junior-lightweights? was long over.

He fractured his skull on a motorcycle in early 2001, mended those wounds, and mounted himself right back to his trade. Needed the clearance to return in 2002 from doctors at home to continue his career, and then afterward in 2004 got banned for failing an MRI test placed on restrictions to fighting in the US. That didn?t deter him last year when he surpassed the 1906 earmark of breaking Young Otto?s straight sixteen first round knockouts, and Valero icing 18 of them on top.

There?s a big devils? advocacy here being played and depriving you from seeing this boxing superstar. Unlike the Super 70s when the three major broadcasting networks picked between the WBA and WBC to get the same 60/40 share of their stars who hadn?t left the country; with the other subscribing magazine collectors bound for months of torment just to read about your favorite champions; while these days the Internet covers them as fast as the moment arrives; with the relied pirated videotaping excerpts through the ingenuity of IPods with applicable software that can come as swiftly across real time.

Manny Pacquiao throws a lot of leather going forward, and what makes 135 so appealing seeing rammed recipients butting heads is that WBA/WBO/IBF Lightweight Champion Juan ?The Baby Bull? Diaz has that kind of tenacious authority with little dialup needed.

If you anticipated the phone booth warfare that he had with Erik ?El Terrible? Morales first time between these two then you might as well just forget it. Pacquiao relies more on ultra rapidness with the stressed importance of his lead straight left hand he uses that as the trapshooting lefty bates and begs for contention in a ?Punch out? escalation to raise activity levels for securing points.

Remember Morales matched his style of fighting berating Pacquiao at his own game in the first fight, and he did so at a time when Pacman was already a heightened Superstar.

Edwin Valero, for every pound and width of it, can give Manny Pacquiao the speed, action, stock, and the kind of concussion that starts a sensation off the bottom of your tingling toes that reach up through the top your head from the rush for the pound-for-pound pontificate.

Manny Pacquiao and Edwin Valero have no constraints. I doubt Juan Manuel Marquez will make Manny flinch much in the mix, and it doesn?t take a rocket scientist to figure in a bout again with an old meets new would only play into the mindset of what we just saw in Pacquiao-Barrera ll. Matches that happened several years ago do tend to die down and simmer after awhile.

Valero trains tirelessly with towels around his neck and exudes training speeds like riding a treadmill to insure maximum results in his thorough workouts. He simply doesn?t want to be called one left within bunches, that he?s carrying the goods, acts, behaves, and believes that he?s just better then Pacquiao. Plus Edwin invites the biggest and brightest boxing stars on the planet to hold up to his gargantuan big left hand.

Edwin declares, ?It?s redundant and I have him measured in my ways (Pacquiao). He?s nothing in showing intelligence inside that ring? and I?ll beat him.? As for the proposed forecast Valero explains, ?I?ll give of him his own due medicine. My left hand will demonstrate who is better. The jab and my counter punches would take me to victory against the Filipino.?

Valero thinks that fight would be better suited for Las Vegas, Nevada. He?s already a Superstar in Venezuela, aligned with the other stars President Hugo Chavez has in acting notables like Kevin Spacey, Harry Bellefonte, Sean Penn and Danny Glover. Chavez plans to produce the supermarket sweep of Hispanic folklores and historical story compositions that he sees a very prominent lackluster void not being fulfilled in many places of the world.

Valero would take his match in the last minute if he had to and is sure he?d defeat him from his intense regiment inside boxing gyms. He rarely strays outside of it.

He?s set a dateline for himself to fight only until his 30th birthday, and his last upcoming match of this year is slated for December 15th at la Plaza de Toros de Canc?n, Quintana Roo, Mexico, with his opponent tentatively waiting in undefeated Juan Carlos Salgado. I am safely wagering Valero will be 23-0, 23 KO?s, by then, which will clear the path for a Pacquiao showdown.

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