The going back and forth and accusatory tone between the Pacquiao and Mayweather factions seems to be endless. On top of that, everyone who’s ever watched a fight or hit a heavy bag seems to know what it’ll take for the fight to be made and who will win it if and when it comes to fruition, if ever.
And now Manny Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, just weighed in with a real dozy.
Recently Arum said, “what Mayweather hates is Manny’s right hand. Mayweather has no chin and Manny will knock him out. Pacquiao and Mayweather is a three or four-round fight. Period. And who knows that best? Mayweather. The one thing Mayweather has had throughout his career is he knows boxing. He understands boxing and Mayweather can not compete with Manny. It’s the right hand of Manny that is preventing that fight from happening. If Manny agreed just to jab with the right hand the fight would be made in 30 seconds.”
Things must really be looking gloom for the fight being made, at least in Arum’s mind. Because that remark about Manny’s right hand instilling so much fear in Mayweather to the point that he fears tangling with Pacquiao really came out of left field. The fact of the matter is, if Pacquiao is going to beat Mayweather, it’ll be because of his left hand. Floyd can handle Manny’s jab and offset it with his own. Pacquiao’s hook off his right jab only works if he touches Floyd with his jab. No Bob, it’s the left hand delivered from some very unorthodox angles that Pacquiao throws from, that if it gets through it’s capable of stunning and freezing Mayweather due to it’s shocking power. Sure, he throws it behind his right hand, but Pacquiao has shown that he can be off with the right jab and still bring the left home. And if he freezes Mayweather with his explosive power that he carries in his left hand, it’s plausible that he can then go in and finish Mayweather.
