Pacquiao vs. Tszyu

batang patchock 2 · Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:07 am

-At lightwelterweight
-at their 140 lb. best-Tszyu who fought Judah vs. Pacquiao who fought Hatton

ecto55 · Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:47 pm

Tszyu is one of the rare fighters who fights better agaist southpaws than righties, and i think his power once felt would traumatise Pacman. Pacman vs Cotto may be instructive in this hypothetical as Cotto is also a boxer-puncher, although i feel that Tszyu's one shot power is better while Cotto uses his boxing skills and bodypunching more. Also, Cotto usually only got on the backmove and boxed when hurt or needing to change something up/draw the opponent in; Tszyu's boxing skills were more subtle and utilised clever positioning and angles to probe for openings...
If Cotto had Tzyue's power in the bout with Pacman, i doubt that Pacman would have gained the ascendency he managed to do so in that bout, and i also think that were Tszyu to fight the way he would agaisnt a southpaw- drawing them onto his right or underrated hook, i think it'd be an even shorter fight. Of course, all the PED's Pacman eats might provide him with some extra punch reliance, but not enough to beat the underrated Tszyu. Nice matchup... Tszyu KO8.

mikeymax71 · Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:14 pm

Hard to guage Pacman with only fight at the weight agianst an open target. I think early on his speed and not his power with give Tszyu problems (like Judah did in the first round and Mitchell in his first fight with Tszyu) but bit by bit his sneaky counter straight right hands will start to have an impact. Also Tszyu had underrated booxing skills which I think will slowly break Manny down and would allow Tszyu to pick up a late TKO or UD.

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