Comments Thread For: Ellerbe on Pacquiao-Thurman: I Think They Need To Do Rematch

[j.razor]

No question it was a close fight. I thought the knockdown and body shot sealed it for Pac. If Manny were younger, I wouldn't have an issue with a rematch. It was a good action fight. All the same, he has about 2 or 3 fights left. I'd rather see him move on to somebody else

I rather see Manny retire for his own health.

[j.razor]

As usual this guy is full of S***

And that guy be you

[Ca$ual Fan]

3rd and 4th jmm fights was ok

$$$$ and rivalry

Bradley 2 and 3 was unnecessary if Bradley 1 was just judged correctly

Vargas, algieri, rios, horn, etc. was whatever

Arum just ran out of 147 fighters

Which is funny because arum had 4 of the top 5 guys in the division

Ppl forget how pac took out all of arums top 147 guys early on

You have been in this forum since 2008 yet you don’t recall how Pac was heavily criticized for taking on a JMM 3 fight? The JMM rivalry has been forgotten already thanks to Floyd entering the scene from retirement and dominated JMM. Pac revived it by taking on JMM again and performed worse than what was expected. The JMM 4 become imminent after that bad showing in the 3rd.

Pac had good match-making from 2009-10. His 2011 match-making was so terribly picked. Berto and Bradley respectively would have been the right choices in 2011(if not Floyd of course)

[fabie]

pac was the clear winner in the fight. no point in rematch right now. maybe after pac beats the spence vs porter winner then thurman can have his rematch.

If Pac beats the Spence-Porter winner- why? lol

Retire in the glorious sun or maybe at the least Mayweather II

[j.razor]

I like both fighters. I did enjoy the fight, it was competitive but there was a clear winner regardless of the BS split decision. I bet Pacquiao would like to look at another belt. To me the obvious choice is Spence. Although personally that is a step too far for Pacquiao right now although its a risky fight.

But i see whats going on here, the script was for Thurman to win here, commentators getting twitchy for Thurman all night even when he was getting a bit of a kicking, the fact it was split, CLEAR WINNER, and then there was the Fox recap vid that didnt show the knock down and made it look like Thurman was schooling him.

So Thurman lost his belt when it was meant to be the other way round and they would prefer that he tried to get it back and i presume they dont really care what Pacquiao wants even though he is the biggest star they have on their books.

They were favoring Manny in the commentary, even when Lennox asked to see the replay of when Manny stepped on Keith's foot before the knock down they didn't play it, Manny stepped on Keith & as soon as Manny's foot let's off he punches Keith in the stomach & as Keith is getting the foot that was stepped on out he tries to block the punch on the stomach then Manny comes with another punch up top that knocked Keith down. Keith wasn't hurt but had Manny not stepped on Keith, Keith probably would of been out of harms way & the knock down wouldn't of happened. We have instant replay but they don't use it for everything like football does, shet when even football does the replays they get it wrong sometimes too..lol..bottom line is it was close & action packed so I wouldn't mind seeing it again or Manny should really consider retiring cuz he taking too many punches.

[yoshik]

Why didn't you B I T C H E S call for a rematch with Porter and Garcia. It was MUCH MUCH closer. Why? You khunts are all #fanboysandhaters

[Bluebird]

Funny, so many people saying no point in a rematch that went RAZOR THIN CLOSE, yet those same cats yell for a Floyd rematch where Manny only clearly won 2 rounds.

Hypocrites

It was a close fight but not “razor thin close”. Ellerbe said it’s unanimous and not “split decision”. Thurman himself admitted he did his best but Pac simply beat him due to his tremendous skills and experience. Pac proves you wrong time and time again.

There will be a Pac/Mayweather rematch, they’re just trying to hype it up, marinate it a little longer to generate more money. That’s why Mayweather went to the Philippines to see Pac and they met again in Japan. It was already planned, even Broner believes they will fight again. Why not? They will make a lot of money again, what’s wrong with that?

[j.razor]

100% Al brought MP in to give his 147 fighters a older name opponent that would pose a manageable amount of risk. I think the absolute worst case scenario for Al would be if Pac somehow pulls off a win against Spence.

You guys got it twisted. Al isn't afraid of advising matches.

[yoshik]

Yes please. Pacman got the first one fair and square, but it was very close and competitive, fine margins. Would love to see it again, it was very entertaining and no doubt a rematch would be more of the same

F u c k no. Thurman didn't give a rematch to Porter or Garcia. Piss on the little hipster.

[The_Hamster]

Absolutely no rematch. To be honest we shouldn't have even had a Tim Bradley Manny Pacquiao rematch less two of them. The fight that really makes sense would be vasyl lomachenko needs to be his own man in step up against his father's wishes and fight Pacquiao at 139 pound catch-weight that's the fight that makes sense.