PacMan's Corner

[Wyld]

nirecord mo ba? share mo yung video.. :boo:

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We have it on a VHS tape. Pano ko she share yun?

[tamago]

Congrats to Pacman! Yahoo!!!

[bubuy]

source : MaxBoxing

 

Pacquiao Gains Revenge with Electrifying 10th Stoppage of Morales

 

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 21 - A bigger, stronger, smarter, and more focused Manny Pacquiao than has ever been seen in the ring gradually and dramatically wore down and stopped Erik Morales in the 10th round of an electrifying rematch before 14,618 fans at the Thomas & Mack Arena to even up their series at 1-1 and impossibly raise his icon status in his native Philippines even higher.

 

After struggling to find range and mount a sustained attack in the first five rounds of intense back-and-forth action that he often got the worst of, Pacquiao found his stride in the sixth round - using timing, feints and combinations to set up his lightening-fast power shots - and then dominated the following rounds with intensity and intelligence until twice dropping the ever-game Morales in the 10th round, prompting referee Kenny Bayless to wisely step in and wave the contest off at 2:33 of the round, just seconds after the second knockdown.

 

Up until Bayless called it off, Pacquiao's fanatical followers had to hold their breath as numerous times throughout the bout, just when it appeared that Pacquiao was about to overwhelm Morales, the hard-nosed Mexican would come back and stun their hero. It happened in the second round, when Pacquiao, now 41-3-1 (32), landed a series of lefts that hurt Morales and sent him stumbling back into the ropes. Morales, now 48-4 (34), waved Pacquiao in as if to say "Bring it!" and then fired back, driving the Filipino icon into the ropes. It happened in the fourth round, after Pacquiao appeared to briefly stun Morales at the start of the round only to get knocked off balance by a counter punch.

 

Of course, this was to be expected from these two warriors. They have fighting styles and mentalities that ensure that when they step into the ring vs. one another the result is as good as it gets in boxing - non-stop two-way action.

 

However, in the sixth round the benefits of the best training camp of Pacquiao's career began to show. Coming into this rematch, Pacquiao did not have to deal with the drama that his former promoter, Murad Muhammad, used to invite by messing with the three-division champ's purse money, fight tickets, hotel rooms and contractual agreements (such as the kind of gloves he could wear -- for this fight he got to wear his favored Reyes-brand mitts). Pacquiao also had a closed camp from his legion of L.A.-based Filipino admirers. Possibly for the first time in his career, he was able to focus on the instructions and game plans laid out by trainer Freddie Roach. And possibly for the first time, Pacquiao carried out those plans and instructions 100%.

 

Pacquiao did not rely on his speed, power and reflexes (in the form of his big left hand). He was a two handed fighter tonight. His right hook did as much damage as his vaunted straight left. He mixed his punches up well to the body and hand, and he worked Morales' mid-section consistently throughout the nine and half rounds of action. He paced himself. He picked his spots. He landed lead power punches to the body and head and flurried when appropriate. He did all of this with the kind of poise and accuracy expected of an elite fighter. Gone were the manic charges and retreats of the first fight with Morales. This version of Pacquiao was not nearly as easy to anticipate and time with counter punches.

 

Still, even after looking the best he's ever looked vs. Morales in rounds six and seven, the Tijuana native managed to give him hell in the late rounds, despite absorbing the majority of punishment. In the eighth round, Pacquiao hurt Morales early, driving the Mexican into the ropes, but the three-division champ may have been playing possum as he suckered his antagonist into a counter right. Furious exchanges ensued, but it was Morales, who didn't seem to enjoy the edge in size that he did in their first encounter, who was repeatedly hurt.

 

Even in the fateful 10th round, Morales was able to hurt Pacquiao with a right before absorbing the salvo from from the Filipino hero that put him down for the first time. Utter chaos mixed with absolute joy broke out in the Thomas & Mack arena following the precise combination that put Morales down again, and the Filipino fans quite literally exploded out of their seats when Bayless called a halt to what had become an unnecessary beating.

 

The knockdowns that Morales suffered in round 10 were the first times he's really been decked in a pro fight (the 12th round of his first fight with Barrera was more a slip or flash knockdown). And, of course, the stoppage itself was the first time Morales was knocked out in a hall-of-fame career. Maybe all the ring wars have finally caught up with "El Terrible". But a more likely reason for his loss is that he was beaten by the better fighter tonight.

[Wyld]

nyahahaha :boo:

 

gising pa para lang mapanood ang laban ni Pacquiao...

 

iba ka talaga manny, simply the best! :thumbsupsmiley: :cool:

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Heheheh we attended a party kasi...everyone left the party at a nearby hotel around 10ish to go to my tita's house to watch the fight at my tita's house.

 

Badtrip talaga yun Pambansang Awit

 

Not bad at all

[bubuy]

We have it on a VHS tape. Pano ko she share yun?

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ngak! paconvert mo.. hehe..

[Supra]

Maraming Salamat! Manny! Mabuhay Ka!

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Wla ba kayong VideoClip ni Pacman, share nyo naman.

[DJTranz]

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[Wyld]

ngak! paconvert mo.. hehe..

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Convert to what?

 

Sorry tanga ko sa mga ganyang bagay

[DJTranz]

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[bubuy]

convert to any digital form.. hehe.. wag na.. gastos pa yun eh..

[Wyld]

I just saw some pictures of the fight.

 

Geez, Morales' nose swelled to twice its size!

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Grabe yung nose nya... talagang parang gusto pumutok sa pamamaga.

 

And he is a good looking guy ha so you can imagine how bad he fared because after the fight he not only seemed wasted, he looked as if a truck ran over him.

 

In fairness, he had a good couple of rounds. He tired easily though. Manny paced himself well... and the match was his when he began hitting Morales in the gut as well as the head.

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Heheheh we attended a party kasi...everyone left the party at a nearby hotel around 10ish to go to my tita's house to watch the fight at my tita's house.

 

Badtrip talaga yun Pambansang Awit

 

Not bad at all  

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smart and practical! :thumbsupsmiley:

 

Grabe yung nose nya... talagang parang gusto pumutok sa pamamaga.

 

And he is a good looking guy ha so you can imagine how bad he fared because after the fight he not only seemed wasted, he looked as if a truck ran over him.

 

In fairness, he had a good couple of rounds. He tired easily though. Manny paced himself well... and the match was his when he began hitting Morales in the gut as well as the head. 

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hehe, a boxing analyst in the making...

 

 

 

 

share na yang videoclip kung sino man meron... :cool:

[Wyld]

@ cheeselogger... May natutunan pala ako sa kaka boxing ko

 

I kept on shouting "hit him in the gut" and my cousins were looking at me like I was deranged.

 

Kasi if you hit him in the gut, di sya agad babagsak but after a while he will suddenly feel it. A good hit on the head increases the chances for a KO. Kaya lang nung malakas pa ang reflexes ni Morales, PacMan couldnt get a punch to the head talaga. He needed to adjust his strategy and he did... Besides, given their height difference, mas abot ng reach ni PacMan yung gut...

 

[vanillasky]

THIS PICTURE AND HEADLINE SAYS IT ALL

 

PACQUIAO MUGS MORALES

 

FROM FIGHT NEWS .COM

By Patrick Kehoe:

 

 

Pilipino bomber Manny Pacquiao waged a war of aggression that Mexican legend Erik Morales, for the first time in his career, found too much to withstand. The rematch of these courageous champions was torrid throughout, the early going fast paced and laced with great exchanges. Pacquiao, 41-3-1 (32) took to the offense as he had in their first fight with Morales, 48-4 (34), trying to answer back in kind instead of utilizing his superior boxing technique. That would be something of an omen. But action was just what the fans at the Thomas and Mack Arena in Las Vegas chanted for and what HBO Pay Per View viewers expected.

 

The fighters were probing and charging from the opening bell, with some serious leather being traded from bell to bell. In the second round Pacquiao, whose speed of hand was showing up in this fight early, pummeled Morales, with the three time champion fighting back more on instinct than clear headed conviction. And that was only the second round. Morales was heading out for the third round already having been hit with more left crosses than he'd been tagged with in 10 rounds during the first go around. And Morales had been seriously hurt by Pacquiao's power, so the impenetrability of the Morales chin was already shown to be suspect, another first for Morales.

 

Showing his championship heart, Morales sensed he needed a rally and in the third Morales was again a dangerous two handed fighter. For the first time in the fight Morales' left hand was amply supported by his famous right hand. But instead of being able to hit on the counter, Pacquiao's early success had Morales leading and gambling more than he might have otherwise. What was not in evidence, as he promised it would be, was the Morales jab, not until the fourth and fifth rounds. Without the left lead, Morales had seeded the power alleys to "The Typhoo" far too often. Having taken up areas he could attack from, Pacquiao was far more confident during exchanges with Morales on Saturday night. Still, it was Morales jabbing and letting his right hand dictate some of the best exchanges in the fifth, which seemed to settle Morales. In the past, that kind of round would have been a springboard for the great Mexican.

 

However Pacquiao took to the sixth intent to drive home his superiority, strength was aided by an ability to target his speed, the consequences being some screaming combinations. And late in the round Morales' legendary resistance, his ability to absorb and punish in return, evaporated. For in the late stages of the sixth, Pacquiao's humming lefts hurt Morales. In that crucible of the seventh, the Morales Era in boxing began to wane into history; Pacquiao found himself able to dictate the on the inside, his physicality taking the fight out of Morales. When a hard combination slammed into Morales face, his nose was broken, his eyes blackened. The Pilipino continued his domination with rights and lefts in the eighth, almost beyond reason, Morales made one last attempt to reverse Pacquiao's tidal wave domination. And at the close of the eighth it was Morales doing the punching.

 

But Pacquiao knew he was in the ascendancy for the balance of the fight and he punished whatever part of Morales the Mexican gave to him. Morales trying to fight with enough conviction so as not to appear beaten, but he surely was all but beaten. In the tenth, Pacquiao surged, hammering Morales with both hands decking Morales once and then for a second time. At the second dropping of Morales to his knees, referee Kenny Bayless had seen enough and stopped the slaughtering of a legend at 2:33 of the tenth. The two knockdowns from the fists of Pac Man were the first and second times in Morales' career he'd even been off his feet. The symbolism was there for all too see.

 

On the card: Mexican Martin Castillo, WBA super-featherweight champion, had another difficult night proving his talents superior to Venezuelan rival Alexander Munoz, 28-2 (26), as the two fighters pounded it out over 12 rounds with Castillo, 30-1 (16), nabbing a split decision victory. Munoz's frustration continued Saturday night against the man who took his WBA title December 2004. He did come out storming from the opening bell, with the champion looking to box his way into a dictating rhythm. It was rough early for Castillo, as the champion hit the deck in the first round courtesy of a Munoz heat-seeking flurry.

 

Throughout a pitched battle, the punches were sharp, heads coming together often, with Munoz's head opening up two cuts on the champion. The jab and combination exchanges had the right eye of the ex-champ - "El Explosivo" - closed by the middle frames of the fight. The seventh, eighth and ninth rounds had some of the best action since the first, each fighter find pay-dirt for their best combinations. Time and again, both fighters were more than willing to exchange and charge into the hitting zone, each feeling they could stop the other. In the end, endurance proved the marginal difference in this tight affair for the feisty Castillo, who was the busier fighter in the championship rounds. The champion ripped into Munoz in the last minute of the eleventh, continuing his solid hitting for the balance of the twelfth.

 

Referee Dalby Shirley was again the dissenting voice as he saw Munoz winning 112-115; Richard Houck saw the fight for the Mexican champion 116-111 and Glenn Feldman had the fight the reverse of Shirley's awarding the championship contest to Castillo 115-112.

 

Up and coming super-bantamweight prospect Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico remained undefeated in scoring a knockout against tough Jose Luis Caro 10-4-1 (9) before an impressed crowd at the Thomas and Mack Arena. The southpaw has yet to hear the bell for the fourth round as a pro, his stoppage of Mexican Caro coming at 1:44 of the third, after scoring a knockdown in the second.

Edited January 22, 2006 by vanillasky