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阿鲁姆告诉曼尼帕奎奥-视频；战斗或退休。
只要一想到帕奎奥和洛马琴科之间的对决，拳击迷们就会垂涎欲滴。围绕这场奇幻打斗的大肆宣传一点也不令人惊讶，因为他们是有史以来戴过拳击手套的最有天赋的小个子男人之一。
而这已经离帕奎奥巅峰期时间相隔10年，而洛马琴科正在扫.荡次轻量级和轻量级。即使这样人们还是想看到双方在拳台上面对会发生什么。
传奇的顶级推广负责人阿鲁姆说，只要帕奎奥同意降至135英镑，他愿意预约帕奎奥-洛马琴科的比赛。
阿鲁姆说；“关于洛马琴科对帕奎奥的比赛，我们永远不能说不。但我的意思是，你不能让一个体重126磅的家伙以147磅的体重对抗帕奎奥，甚至是144磅的体重。”
阿鲁姆曾为帕奎奥的大部分比赛做过宣传，他认为菲律宾人可能会在次中量级(140磅)米奇.加西亚对决。如果这种情况真的发生了，他相信，安排帕奎奥-洛马琴科在135磅对决将变得更加现实。
在帕奎奥晋升为顶级拳手的那段时间里，阿鲁姆聪明的，臭名昭著的利用了对他们有利的“割肉”条款，使他们能够抵消对手在常规拳击比赛中对一个天生较小的吃豆人通常享有的体格优势。
现在看来，阿鲁姆面前是“P4P”之王，他试图将剧本翻转到帕奎奥身上。推广人知道帕奎奥，尽管他坚持说自己可以很容易地降到135磅，但仍然会遇到体重问题，因为他自2009年以来一直在次中量级比赛。
事实上，他最近一次在147磅以下的比赛是在2009年5月对阵哈顿，而在2008年对阵迪亚兹的比赛中，帕克曼唯一一次出现在轻量级比赛中。
尽管在轻量级速度和力量上都对帕奎奥有利，但与像洛玛琴科这样的人作战仍然是一项艰巨的任务，不管帕奎奥有多伟大。
这就是为什么说阿鲁姆是一个如此精明的经营者，他总能找到办法给他的拳手一个优势，不管这个优势有多小。帕奎奥，如果他真的想和高科技的洛马琴科对抗，一定不能让这场135磅的比赛加上一个体重限制条款，否则他不会有好下场。
轻量级的洛马显然比帕奎奥更快、更全面。
他还能得到什么呢？这只是一个有利于罗玛琴科的拳击诊所，一个没有人想看到的场景，尤其是像吃豆人这样的传奇人物。
Fight Mayweather or retire, Bob Arum tells Manny Pacquiao - Video
Fight fans have been salivating on mere thoughts of a Manny Pacquiao vs. Vasyl Lomachenko showdown. The tremendous hype surrounding this fantasy fight shouldn’t be surprising at all since these are two of the most talented little men who ever wore a pair of boxing gloves.
While Pacquiao and Lomachenko reached their peaks 10 years apart, with the Filipino fighting champ dominating the late 2000s to early 2010s and the Ukrainian lording over the featherweight and lightweight class in the latter part of this decade, many are still fascinated what kind of a fight these shoo-in Hall of Famers would produce if they ever decide to slug it out inside the ring.
Bob Arum, the legendary Top-Rank head promoter, said that he’s open to booking a Pacquiao-Lomachenko fight so long as the eight-division world champ agrees to come down to 135 pounds.
“On Lomachenko v Pacquiao, we can never say never. But I mean you don’t take a guy who’s 126-lbs and have him fight at 147-lbs against Pacquiao – or even a catchweight of 144-lbs,” Arum told World Boxing News.
Arum, who promoted the majority of Pacquiao’s biggest fights, thinks the Filipino could be eyeing a match with four-division world champion Mikey Garcia at Jr. Welterweight (140 pounds). If that happens, the promoter believes arranging a Pacquiao-Lomachenko fight at lightweight would then become a lot more realistic.
The Catchweight Magic
During Pacquiao’s time at Top-Rank Promotions, Arum had cleverly and notoriously exploited the catchweight clause in their favor, enabling them to offset or neutralize the bulk advantage an opponent would normally enjoy against a naturally smaller Pacman in a regular boxing match.
Now, it looks like Arum will be trying to flip the script against his former ward, Pacquiao, in the event he faces the consensus pound-for-pound king. The promoter knows Pacquiao, despite his insistence that he can easily sweat down to 135, would still encounter weight problems as he’s been fighting as a welterweight since 2009.
In fact, the last time he fought below 147 pounds was against Ricky Hatton at Jr. Welterweight in May 2009, while Pacman’s only lightweight appearance happened against David Diaz in 2008.
While a potential move to the lightweight division would favor Pacquiao in terms of speed and power, fighting someone like Lomachenko who has been bulldozing everybody at 135 would still be a tall order regardless of Pacman’s greatness.
This is the reason why Arum is such a shrewd operator. He always finds a way to give his fighter an advantage, no matter how small it is. Pacquiao, if he really has the intention to mix it out with Hi-Tech Lomachenko, must not allow the fight to happen at 135 pounds with a catchweight clause or else it’s not going to end well for him.
A lightweight, Loma is clearly the faster, more superior all-around fighter than Pacquiao.
A lightweight, Loma is clearly the faster, more superior all-around fighter than Pacquiao.
What more can a catchweight give to him? It would just be a boxing clinic in favor of Lomachenko, a scene no one would ever want to see especially for a legend like the Pacman. |
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2023-10-24 04:11:20
