Old Man Pacman fights tonite

[Highwayman]

7pm pacific time on espn one hour earlier even older Shane Mosley fights!

[rudee]

Thanks Highway.. Hoping if Manny wins, he will fight Crawford..
Mosley a local here around the neighborhood.... neighbor saw him and
says he looks old.. I said,, he is!

[c8rbk1ng]

This will be the first non-PPV fight for Pacquiao since 2005 (12 years). He is an overwhelming favorite.

[rudee]

Well,, I think we all think like ESPN and agree that Manny won the fight.. but it
was not the same old Manny we all admired...
Maybe the time has come for Manny to hang em up... no combinations at all. Missed
many punches.. and this guy was a big target..
Manny looked slow and old... kinda like Duran and Leonard at the end..
Guess there is a rematch clause.. don't know how much interest there would be though.
Gotta hand it to the Aussie though... no quit in the guy. His heart won the fight.

[Highwayman]

Well,, I think we all think like ESPN and agree that Manny won the fight.. but it
was not the same old Manny we all admired...
Maybe the time has come for Manny to hang em up... no combinations at all. Missed
many punches.. and this guy was a big target..
Manny looked slow and old... kinda like Duran and Leonard at the end..
Guess there is a rematch clause.. don't know how much interest there would be though.
Gotta hand it to the Aussie though... no quit in the guy. His heart won the fight.

Goooood fight yeah pacman won in my eye`s he has gotten older and the aussie was the aggressor
and bigger but suffered more damage i dont look at damage from head butts intentional or not.

Too bad pacman is so small i shutter to think in his heyday what he could have done as a Heavy weight
think about it?!

[c8rbk1ng]

The old Manny would have finished Horn in the ninth round and this Manny couldn't, then to have the ref want to stop the fight but giving the Aussie the benefit of the doubt and Horn coming out in the tenth round and dominating that round showed how much he wanted this fight. Manny lost this fight in the early rounds and came back in the later rounds, but that tenth round (and possibly the 12th) was the killer. I actually agree with the 2 judges that had it 115-113 but what was that other judge watching 117-111)? Horn definitely won 7 rounds and an argument could be made for Manny winning the 9th round by a 10-8 score which would have been a 114-114 draw but I guess the judges didn't see it that way. Anyways, I agree with the rest of you guys in thinking that Manny's best days are behind him (his bounce is gone) and that he should 'hang em up'. JMHO :)

afterthought: I guess you missed the "Jr." part of Shane Mosley :)

[rudee]

Ha ha ha!! no wonder my friend said Shane looked super old...
Shane Jr was fighting..
I did miss the Jr part...
Either way, dad and Jr gotta both hang it up.. I think Sr did..
Marquez quit, maybe Manny will hang em up too... its time.

[TLG]

Jeff Horn rejects 'naysayers' after beating Manny Pacquiao

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Jeff Horn beat Pacquiao, an eight-time world champion, following a unanimous points decision in Brisbane, Australia.
Pacquiao's coaches and celebrities including Lennox Lewis and Kobe Bryant were critical of the judges' call on the result.
But the relatively unknown Australian, 29, said he was worthy of the win.
"There will always be a backlash where people say I got lucky, or whatever," he told reporters on Monday.
"There will always be the naysayers saying I did not win the fight, but I felt like I won the fight. A lot of Queenslanders think I won the fight and people around the world."
Pacquiao's Australian coach, former heavyweight boxer Justin Fortune, had described the referee as "sketchy" and the judges as "crazy" following the bout.

However Pacquiao, 38, congratulated his opponent and said he respected the decision.

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The Australian responded by paying tribute to his rival, describing him as "an absolute warrior, a legend of the sport".
Horn, who taught at a Brisbane school until only recently, said he believed his former students would be proud.
"I have a lot to do with the school still," he said. "I don't go there and teach but I still go to the schools and I know the kids will be proud of what I have done."
Nicknamed "The Hornet", he also drew praise from admirers including Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
"What a great Australian story - congratulations," Mr Turnbull said.
"Brisbane school teacher to world champion. Against all of the pundits."
Career elevation
His grandfather, Ray Horn, said he was also very proud.
"If anyone had ever told me I would have a grandchild I would have found it hard to believe," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
"But I would think they were nuts if they told me I would be a grandfather of a world champion one day."
More than 51,000 spectators watched the bout at Brisbane's Lang Park stadium.
Horn set up his victory with an aggressive start before both fighters tired in the final rounds.
Reports claim the underdog won a guaranteed A$500,000 (£295,000; $384,000) from his fight against Pacquiao, and he could now be set for even bigger paydays.
Horn has already challenged US boxer Floyd Mayweather to a fight and said he would consider a re-match against Pacquiao.

[kenkell1]

proof that boxing is a one ring circus of a joke.