WBA regular welterweight champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao opened a slight underdog to WBA welterweight super champion Keith “One Time” Thurman, but now he is a slight betting favorite.
Pacquiao (61-7-2, 39 KOs) has two weeks of rigorous training at Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club and six weeks total under his belt. He is at full throttle for his challenge against the undefeated Thurman (29-0, 22 KOs), which takes place in 17 days.
Daily morning runs of three to five miles with hundreds of fans trailing, followed by one thousand sit-ups and assorted drills, afternoons at the gym, filled with 10 rounds of sparring, 10-12 rounds of mitts with Freddie and Buboy Fernandez, endless rounds of heavy bag and speed bag work, are capped off with another 1,000 sit-ups.
“Manny is so unbelievably fast. He’s 40 years old and moving around the ring with the same speed he had when he was just a seven-division world champion,” said Roach. “Manny has Keith Thurman’s number. Thurman is slower than Heinz ketchup. Manny is going to beat him 57 ways on July 20. The fans know it, and the sports books know it. Manny has gone from underdog to a betting favorite. Manny is money for this fight. It’s going to be champagne and Lobster Thurmandor for us!”
People need to enjoy and recognise how great Manny is. Taking these fights at 40 years old. 70 pro fights under his belt. Most Fighters don’t do this anymore……..
6 weeks of training. Hmm is that enough for a part time boxer?
The odds might be changing because of the way they look in training. Thurman talks a lot, but this isn’t a rap contest, is a fist fight and maybe he isn’t looking better than Pacquiao or at least on top shape. Well, he better step on the ring in better condition than when he fought Josesito Lopez if he really wants to win.because Pacquiao is a lot better than Lopez
Okay, I like the “lobster Thurmandor” line. I think the choice is Thurman though.
I hope to God that those stupid enough to bet on PacMan are Democrats. I need them to lose their money. I love watching Liberals lose.
November 3, 2020 will be delicious. Cry Wave II.
Philip Morris & Kleenex will get rich that night. Liberals everyone will smoke cigarettes and cry a storm. Trump Rules. bIRAQ oBOMBa (Barry Newports) sucks.
Jonathan,
Please leave your idiotic political rants out of this comment section – its meant to be about boxing and nothing else.
Every single one of your comments I’ve read so far has been completely off the mark and illogical or stupid beyond belief.
Thurman will destroy Pac…Mark it down.
wanna bet
You obviously don’t know boxing
If you pick One Time to beat Manny, you don’t know
boxing. Father Time is undefeated. Keith is going to make Manny look old. Keith is going to win by a late stoppage.
I would love to see Manny win but I don’t think that will happen. A 40 year old boxer might feel and look great in training but when they get in there for the real thing they find out how bad their timing and coordination is off. Hopkins continued to have much success in his 40’s because he was very crafty and knew every trick in the book to throw the opponent off their game. For all of Manny’s greatness, he is not the technician or tactician that Hopkins was. He was noticeably a few steps off beating Broner in January. He would have stopped Bruner if the fight had been three years ago. I don’t see Thurman stopping him in two rounds like he claims he is going to do but a gradual wearing down leading to a mercy stoppage somewhere between the 8th and 10th rounds is the most likely scenario.
and down goes thurman……
People talk but still won’t put their money on Thurman cause they know manny will beat him.
nice post! prime manny would have murdered broner. Manny still smothers his punches on the inside, ugh gets on my nerves lol. he has the veteran craftiness but not on the hopkins level like you said.
If Thurman is going to dominate, he better do it from rounds 1 to 5 or 6. If he isn’t way ahead going into round 7, he will not win, in my opinion. And maybe Thurman stops Pacquiao within 7 rounds. I wouldn’t bet on it. If Pacquiao is not beaten up in the first 6 rounds, he will have enough to take over in the last 5 or 6 rounds of the fight.
With all the crap big mouth Thurman is talking he better beat pac man convincingly. If he loses he better hide his face forever and if he barely beats Pacman I see his ass making some bogus excuses either way.
I love Thurman. He’s very confident and seems honest. He’s a high school drop out who is more eloquent than most college graduates these days. If he loses (a big IF), then I predict an honest and humble response to the loss.
Jonathan keep it boxing! The only one that sounds like a crybaby is you LadyBoy extremely feminine posting you have.. just saying
Can’t wait have 10G on Pac, easy money
Floyd beat Manny and Connor at 40 so why not?
I was in Reno Nevada having never made a bet. And thought about betting on Manny, because I thought the original odds were too good to be true. But I think that many felt earlier those odds were too good to pass up. So I chickened out and did to put up any bet. First reason why I think Pacquiao will win. While Thurman has 21 knockouts in 29 fights, he has only stopped two of his last 8 opponents since 2014, and those were against men past there best years. Until his last fight, against a man also past his best years, and not having had a fight in nearly two years, he had a lot of trouble. Yes Pacquiao is past his best years, but has a lot more going then his last opponent. Yes and in his last eight fights he has only had one knockout, but also against a far better opponent, and more recently. For me Thurman in a one gear fighter, does not seem to be able go to a plan B. He got marked up by light hitting Nicky Guerrero, and wonder what Pacquiao will leave behind. I also think Pacquio is bigger box office than Thurman, this will play as it seems to in the judging in Vegas.
i hope manny wins. he’s an icon, but may the best fighter win.