Originally posted by hectari
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Mind you, floyd is the most accurate boxer of our generation, he made virtually everyone of his opponent as a target practice, except this darn poochiao; --not only pacquiao was able to avoid most of his pot shots, but floyd can't even land a single clean heavy blow in the entire fight without it being half-parried, caught on gloves, evaded by a hairline or him getting counter punched crisply from time to time.
We unconsciously tried to put the burden on pacquiao to score alone, which is ridiculous, both should score, this is boxing and floyd is not a goalie. Yes, floyd had defended very well and so is pacquiao, but his(floyd) offense is so horrendous, in fact, he's much worse than pacquiao offensively, since at the very least pacquiao was able to land the clean and effective punches between them in the entire fight.
Another surprising factor here is pacquiao's defense, it is tremendous upon review; --while he is busy finding gaps, he was able to evade most of floyd's pot shots inch by inch and at times by a minutely hairline distance. This is something I didn't see on fight live, until I reviewed it on replay. Probably because my mind is so made up that pacquiao isn't that good defensively or it's not possible to outdo floyd defensively, I really thought floyd was hitting him cleanly, but upon review, I found out, it's mostly friggin air and glove. Fuucckk!
If we could just turn back time and not have this friggin technology all around us. The result of the fight could have been more acceptable. But today, technology is so advanced and so available publicly, it's hard to fool even the casuals anymore.
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