SkippyPB <swiegand@Nospam.neo.rr.com> writes:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:45:29 -0600, Paul Cassel
> <pcasselremove2@comremovecast.net> wrote:
>
>>Walter Mitty wrote:
>>> "D.Flynn" <gunk7@msn.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> All 16.000 tickets were snatched up within hours of going on sale
>>>> today for a $17,000,000 gate,
>>>>
>>>> http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3607177
>>>
>>> It is going to be a hell of a fight.
>>>
>>> Much as I love Oscar (and still maintain he beat PBF easily), I think
>>> Pacquiao will be too busy and too strong despite natural weights. He has
>>> also developed that "winning" habit. Something Oscar lost a long time
>>> ago.
>>>
>>> But wow!
>>
>>I can't see Pac overcoming the weight differential.
>
> That is going to be the issue for sure. Let's face it, Pac is a
> naturally smaller man and while he may be able to stay lean while
> adding on the weight, it is bound to slow him down. Speed is his main
> attribute. Not only hand speed but foot speed as well. Oscar is
> slowed by age but maybe not as much as Pac will be slowed by the
> weight.
Putting on a few pounds is not going to make his hand speed any slower
that makes any odds. Nor his head movement.
He wont slow up that much.
Oscar's main talent is he is a fearless contender. In the same way he
dismantled Mayorga he might well do the same to the "all action all in"
Pacquio.
Am totally undecided.