Expectations here is the Filipino flash answers the opening
bell in usual style - as if propelled from one of them circus
cannons. Don’t see Diaz having answers for survival.
Pacquiao, one dimensional or not, is too
quick, with good enough punching power to close the show early
- as in stanza one, two or three - if my guess is wrong and
Diaz is stopped late, a knockout is a knockout by any other
name.
The respective rap sheets pretty much sum up
most of how and why Pacquiao is my choice - while Diaz has no
more than a single loss and a draw among 36 kept appointments,
the résumé is a padded one when held next to the Pacquiao
star-studded version.
Further, the southpaw advantage doesn’t
exist with both working from the port side - faint sign of Diaz
hope going in is being bigger lightweight that has fought as
high as jr. welter - Pacquiao more junior lightweight in size.
The Diaz majority decision win over Erik
Morales in 2007 was washed up version of “El Terrible” that
had arrived on three consecutive losses - while Pacquiao was
beaten by Morales in 2005, he reversed the score with two KO
wins over Erik in 2006 - also enters this one on seven bout
roll with Barrera and Marquez among the victims.
P.S. Pacquiao at 46-3-2, 35 KO’s - but two
of the debits arrived early in career at Flyweight.
George Elsasser
