Pacquiao-Margarito & Haye-Harrison: A Tale of Two Fights

Friday, November 12, 2010

By Mark Hepplestall: November 13th marks two huge fights in the world of boxing, the WBC light middleweight clash between Antonio Margarito and Manny Pacquiao, and the WBA Heavyweight title matchup between David Haye and Audley Harrison.

Antonio Margarito will be facing the hardest test of his career when he takes on the Pound for Pound champion Manny Pacquiao. Manny Pacquiao is looking for an impressive and unbelievable 8th world title, while Antonio Margarito is looking for the biggest win of his career and to reextablish himself as a pound for pound fighter. Training for both boxers is suggested to have gone well and the fight will contain excitement from the first bell to the last. Manny Pacquiao brings the power and speed to the table while Antonio Margarito brings the Heart and aggression. For victory Antonio Margarito has to land large quantities of punches early on and shock Pacquiao into mistakes resulting in a knock out or keep pressing Pacquiao into the last rounds hoping Pacquiao runs out of gas, Manny Pacquiao needs to impose his tempo on the fight and land shots early on, his movement needs to be crisp and he needs to land shots from angles. Manny Pacquiao’s speed will be his key attribute in this fight, while Margarito’s will be his heart.
Momentum is with Manny Pacquiao who is undoubtedly in the form of his life; he is fighting the best and beating the best convincingly. Antonio Margarito is lucky to get this shot after being caught cheating using illegal hand wraps but luckily the light middleweight division isn’t filled full of exciting boxers that put butts on seats and sell PPV’s on a world stage now that Martinez has left for middleweight, Foreman is injured, Rhodes was overlooked for Margarito and Mundine has an opponent scheduled.
Likelihood is Manny Pacquiao will win by KO.
The second fight is Haye Vs Harrison, also known as “The London Championship”, which caught the imagination of the whole of the UK and even all Klitschko fans are eagerly awaiting the victor to face either Wladimir or Vitali in the near future since their opposition has been less than spectacular when looking at matchmaking such as Briggs and Chisora.
Haye receives some criticism for deciding not to fight the Klitschko’s straight away now he has captured a world title, yet most experts agree he is in the top 3 heavyweights in the world. WBA world heavyweight champion David Haye has won 24 of his 25 fights, 22 by KO to 1 loss, while his opponent Audley Harrison has a record consisting of 27, 20 by KO to only 4 defeats.
Haye has great advantages in speed, power and movement and is tailor made for Harrison due to Harrison’s tendency to look like a rabbit caught in the headlights when under pressure. Also Haye weighing in at 210.5lbs shows he will have a major speed advantage and Harrison as always struggled with quicker boxers notably Michael Sprott in both fights, Sprott’s speed in their second fight had him win all rounds but 3 in the fight before the knockout.
At the end of this fight there is a high chance that the career of Britain’s worst underachiever will be truly over.

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