Juan Manuel Marquez vs Manny Pacquiao both fights are perfect for Floyd to study. They show how easy it is for Pacquiao to get hit with perfect placed right hands. Manny is a very good offensive puncher no doubt, but at the same time he is a sucker for straight right hands. Look at the video attached. Marquez just didn’t have the power to really put Pacquiao down for the count. Yet and still Pacquiao’s speed and movement are hard for just about any fighter to handle.
That is until he faces Floyd Mayweather. What has been talked about as the most anticipated match up this decade will live up to the expectations of the fans. Whether you are a true boxing fanatic or just a average joe blow that turns on ESPN2, Showtime, or HBO to catch a fight from time to time. If the average couch potatoe does not know who these 2 fighters are, they will hear enough about it until they meet March 13.
The thing that makes this a hard fight for Manny Pacquiao is that Floyd doesn’t believe in getting hit. He avoids this at all cost. What fans feel to realize is that Pacquiao is a southpaw fighter. His power is in his left hand. The problem is that Floyd shoulder rolls his left shoulder inside to the right. This makes it extremely difficult for Pacquiao to land a “flush” left hand. Let’s take Roach’s ability to improve Manny’s right hand and turn it into a powerful right hook. Same problem, shoulder roll will block it. Now Manny can hit Floyd’s left side of the body though.
Problem with that is Floyd will be ready to counter with his own right hand lead. We must not forget that these two fighters are “precision” punchers. Manny has precision punches but tends to drop his hands while doing so, leaving himself open. Floyd punches with precision but at the same time snaps right back into defensive mode. This fight will be very intriguing. I would have to say it will come down to who is conditioned better.
As far as conditioning goes, Floyd believes in the old traditional training. No supplements, or anything is going in his body. If anything, Floyd admits to being a junk food adict. Manny on the other hand is into supplements since he came across Conditioning Coach Ariza. This puts us in mind of Rocky Balboa vs Ivan Drago. We are not saying Manny is on drugs. We are doing a comparision to Ivan using high tech equipment vs Rocky using old school traning techniques. Both are representing their countries. We hope like in the Rocky IV movie that both countries can come together in unity.
