Bradley has to take Pacquiao deep and drown him when he loses his legs

By Chris Williams: If a fighter sticks around the game too long they start to wear down and fall apart under the strain when facing a younger guy with speed, stamina and boxing ability. WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) is starting to show his age now that’s up there at 33, and he’s facing a young lion in undefeated 28-year-old Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 KO’) on June 9th a the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Pacquiao looked dreadful in his last fight against Juan Manuel Marquez last November and should be thanking his lucky starts that two of the judges saw him as the winner in his 12 round majority decision victory, because had I been the sole judge scoring the fight, I would have had Pacquiao losing the fight by a couple of rounds.

Marquez is a good fighter, but he didn’t do anything specular in that fight other than setting a high pace where he made sure to tag Pacquiao back each time he would throw one of his shots. Bradley is the same kind of fighter but a lot younger and much better at applying pressure to wear down an aging lion like Pacquiao. Bradley already has spotted Pacquiao’s weakness with his stamina and he plans on shifting his game into high gear in the 1st round and basically shaking Pacquiao to pieces by forcing him to maintain a high pace for 12 rounds, a pace that Pacquiao’s aging legs likely won’t be able to maintain without him gassing out and getting stopped or out-pointed. It happens in boxing. Pacquiao was one of the best fighters in the game at one time, but now he’s kind of resting on laurels and living off of the stuff he did a few years ago. The only good fighter he’s fought since Cotto is Marquez, and pretty much the entire world saw Marquez as worthy of a win.