article_snippet.sent: his may be a warrior in the ring, but Manny Pacquaio showed his humble side outside of his humble side once more with Manny Pacquaio latest Instagram post.
article_snippet.sent: Back in 2010, Manny was still growing into a welterweight.
article_snippet.sent: Manny first two welterweight fights were against Oscar De La Hoya in 2008 and Miguel Cotto in 2009 where Manny only weighed 142 and 144 pounds respectively, and in between Manny dropped down to 138 to fight Ricky Hatton. '
article_snippet.sent: Floyd has been campaining as a welterweight since 2005 and weighed 150 in Floyd fight against De La Hoya so that might have given Floyd an advantage.
article_snippet.sent: I still like Manny's chances in his fight against De La Hoya
article_snippet.sent: but I think the Manny of today has a lot more in the Manny of today favour.
article_snippet.sent: In 2010 the two-year age difference between the fighters was not significant to either, but that's not true today.
article_snippet.sent: Floyd at 38 is doing things Pacquiao didn't do in the past.
article_snippet.sent: Floyd is a defensive genius but Floyd has always depended on Floyd legs to perform and you can see now that his legs do not have the same spring or fluidness of Floyd earlier years.
article_snippet.sent: I have all the confidence in the world that Manny is going to knock Floyd out on May 2.'