Inamin ni Hall of Fame boxing announcer Bob “The Colonel” Sheridan na kaya’t ‘di matuloy ang welterweight megabout nina Floyd Mayweather Jr. at Manny Pacquiao ay dahil maraming katwiran ang Amerikano.
Tumanyag si Sheridan bilang ring announcer ng mga dakilang boksingero na tulad nina Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran at Mike Tyson pero iginiit niya kay Robert Brown ng On The Ropes Boxing Radio Show na matutuloy lamang ang pinakahihintay na sagupaan kapag ginusto ni Mayweather.
“The problem is Mayweather. If he wants to have the fight, the fight will happen. The PPV numbers will be there, there’s no question about that, but he doesn’t seem to care about that because he can generate PPV numbers on his own and so can Manny Pacquiao, although Pacquiao’s aren’t as high as Floyd Mayweather’s,” ani Sheridan. “The public wants to see that fight and meanwhile in the welterweight division you got Tim Bradley still active, you got the undefeated kid from the UK, Kell Brook, he’s a terrific fighter.”
“Shawn Porter is another guy that’s good in the division and Keith Thurman is undefeated. It’s a good division,” giit ni Sheridan. “Amir Khan I think proved that he’s worthy of a shot at Floyd Mayweather and I think that may happen before a Pacquiao bout.”
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Aminado si Sheridan na bahagyang bumaba ang kredibilidad ni Pacquiao nang mapatulog ni Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez ngunit nangyayari talaga ang “lucky punch” sa boksing.
“I think Pacquiao is a sensational fighter. He’s lost some credibility with the public when he got hit with that one punch by Juan Manuel Marquez, but that can happen in boxing — it hasn’t happened to Floyd Mayweather but it has happened to Pacquiao,” pahayag ni Sheridan. “Pacquiao came back, he beat Tim Bradley and controlled Chris Algieri in the last fight.”
Ani Sheridan, maituturing na kapwa super athletes sina Pacquiao at Mayweather kaya maraming naghihintay ng kanilang sagupaan.
“I think that this guy (Pacquiao) is a sensational fighter, in spite of the fact that the Mayweather fight probably should have taken place three or four years ago when they were both at their absolute peak,” dagdag ni Sheridan. “They’re both super athletes and stay in great shape all the time, so the fight that we’re talking about right now is the fight that everybody is talking about in the welterweight division.”
