Why Pac must attack …“Unprofessionally”
Kimo Morrison - 1/18/2005
“It’s not illegal until you get caught!” Words that should be taken for exactly how they sound. In a fight, a fighter must do what is necessary to win the fight, even if it means the occasional foul and a good trainer should tell his fighter just such. Adaptation and strategy being the two largest factors in a fight such as this, Freddie Roach must not be afraid to tell Manny Pacquiao to go low, hold and hit, even butt intentionally. Not enough to get points deducted…just enough to make one Erik Morales come and fight him out of anger without thinking...making it an all out war!
Boxing has it’s rules as do all sports, and for this we have a referee. In a fight that must be concluded in a slug fest, Pac-man must attack, attack, attack. And do so with vicious intent. He must make the boxer fight him. The way to do this is to continue fouling him with a variety of fouls until Morales has no other mind set then to go to war. Let the third man present set his standards on what he sees as a foul. Push every limit knowing what can and can not be gotten away with. Remember, unless a referee comes into the fight bias, he will give at least one warning for each foul and in all probability two before he then decides to take a point. As long as all the fouls occurring are graciously spread apart in the first couple rounds, a fighter should feel safe about testing his limitations. This is a fight girls so before getting so upset with what would be the perfect approach to making this a war just remember it is only a foul if the ref says so. Until that point, it is just another technical advantage by the one who decides to use it.
Many in the sport such as Big George and birds of the same feather may say that this is an ob-surd and dirty way to win even go so far as to call it cheating. How is this cheating though I ask if you are held accountable for your actions the same as your opponent? All that is being established is one fighter gaining knowledge of how the ref in this match is calling the fight the same as a pitcher who finds out where the strike zone is according to the umpire behind the plate in any particular game. A few will hit low in the balls catagory- pardon the pun- as well as outside until the umpires limits have been drawn. This happens in all sports, it just so happens that in boxing, when a fighter tests the rules as he sees fit, it may get ugly. That is where the referee must do his job. This is not the job of the boxer-too see how low is low-.
Erik Morales can be had for the taking, not because MAB beat him and Pac-Man beat MAB, but because he has vulnerabilities as do ALL men and I believe Freddie Roach is the type of trainer to be able to expose them. The only way to knock this guy out is to take his conditioning away from him which can be done. Though he can be knocked down early by a good shot, he has a nack for being able to shake punches off pretty quickly. Not only will going to war early sap his energy quicker due to expense of it personally, but if fouled correctly it can be taken away that much earlier. Little things like driving the chin down into his lat’s while in a clinch as to cause arm weariness, or if in an over-hook tie up, a light and unapparent tapping of the cup. All the while keeping busy testing limits as often as possible. This will wear Erik down sooner than he wishes opening him up for the first early stoppage of his career.
A trainer must take all pre-cautions in this type of fight plan. Watching for himself how the referee is calling the fight and letting his fighter know when enough is enough. Before then girls let it be blood, balls and brains till the last man stands alone!
The “Unprofessional Guy”
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