I cannot recall a better performance in the last 10 years than that of Manny Pacquiao against David Diaz.
Its easy to get carried away with a fight like that but lets put it into perspective, Pacquiao was fighting a guy who was on paper much bigger, stronger and a real force in the Lightweight division yet he comprehensively outboxed, out punched, and out fought the guy.
I have watched the fight twice now and it is almost a flawless performance with Pacman putting on a boxing master class by out jabbing Diaz, leading off with switch hitting lefts, lead hooks and counter lefts. Diaz in every aspect was second best and was beaten up round by round.
Considering the weight factors this for me is the greatest single performance of the last ten years. We can talk about Mayweather v Gatti or Calzaghe v Lacy etc but this eclipses those and many more.
Diaz is a very good fighter yet he was made to look average.
Its easy to get carried away with a fight like that but lets put it into perspective, Pacquiao was fighting a guy who was on paper much bigger, stronger and a real force in the Lightweight division yet he comprehensively outboxed, out punched, and out fought the guy.
I have watched the fight twice now and it is almost a flawless performance with Pacman putting on a boxing master class by out jabbing Diaz, leading off with switch hitting lefts, lead hooks and counter lefts. Diaz in every aspect was second best and was beaten up round by round.
Considering the weight factors this for me is the greatest single performance of the last ten years. We can talk about Mayweather v Gatti or Calzaghe v Lacy etc but this eclipses those and many more.
Diaz is a very good fighter yet he was made to look average.
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