Pacquiao: Age Makes Him Vulnerable

Former WBA World lightweight champion Brandon Rios’ trainer Robert Garcia sees Manny Pacquiao as being ripe for the picking for his fighter 26-year-old Rios to beat next year, and Garcia sees Pacquiao having problems with Rios’ fighting style/youth.
Garcia said to RingTV “I think Brandon’s style combined with Pacquiao’s age and all of that, we might be able to pull off a surprise.”

Garcia sees Rios as a younger version of Antonio Margarito, who gave Pacquiao a lot of problems with his body punching at the tail end of Margarito’s career. Garcia said “The only difference is Rios is 10 years younger than Margarito, which could be the difference in a fight with Pacquiao.”

The Pacquiao-Rios fight will definitely get made next year if Pacquiao can get past Juan Manuel Marquez on December 8th. Their promoter Bob Arum wants the Pacquiao vs. Rios fight, because it’s an easy in house fight for him to make, and one that would increase Rios’s value as a fighter. It’s the smart thing for Arum to do, because it’s pretty clear that Rios is little more than a limited slugger. He was beaten so easily by Richard Abril earlier this year in a fight where Rios’ limitations as a fighter were brought to light. Arum needs to put Rios in a big fight before he’s exposed by someone else.
Rios might not be all that good, but he’s got enough youth to defeat what’s left of the depleted Pacquiao if Arum makes the mistake of matching Rios up against him next year.

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