Sugar Ray Leonard says that in order for manny Pacquiao to return from his five -year pension, he must get used to hitting and strenuous training at a high level for a shot against Master WBC Mario Barrios on July 19.

Return of Leonard Vs. Manny’s

Sweet Ray recalls that he has retired for five years and returned successfully. However, Sugar Ray was only 30 years elderly when he returned. Pacquiao 46 will be much more challenging to do what Leonard did because of his age and the whole ring of a long career.

“When I came back, I didn’t realize that five years have passed. You must get used to being hit. You have to get used to training so strenuous at this level,” said Sugar Ray Leonard, when to do it Fight Hub tvAsked about his thoughts about Manny Pacquiao returning about 46 after five years of leaving the ring.

The opponent that Leonard fought the stern in the ring for five years from 1982 to April 6, 1987 was Marvin Hagler and defeated him by a 12-round decision. Hagler wanted him to be 15 rounds, which would favor him.

“It’s more psychological than physical. You must have a heart, this feeling. And you know what? Do I have to question it? No. Maybe he did it. Maybe he knows what to do. It’s just how you feel. We don’t think how stupid it is. Warriors don’t think in this way for the majority,” Leonard said, speaking of older sames after they were retired.

In the case of Pacquiao it will also be physical, because he is 46 years elderly, and he looked at him in the last fight with Jordenis Ugas on August 21, 2021. He lost this fight with a unanimous decision. You have to lose a lot of physical skills that he showed in this fight even at the great camp of Pacquiao. He must hope that Barrios is lacking in talent to apply it.

“I would like to have, but on the other hand you couldn’t change my mind. I was ready for this ring. Not 100%. I would say it. I was not 100% prepared. But I did what I felt I had to do,” said Leonard.

When Sugar Ray fought, he was fearless, accepting killers such as Marvin Hagler, Danny Lalonde, Wilfred Benitez, Roberto Duran and Tommy Hearns. At the end of Leonardo’s career, he took prolonged breaks from the ring. If he was still fighting, he would enjoy even greater success, but he earned so much money.

Leonard on Crawford vs. Canelo

“This is a huge difference,” said Leonard, when asked about his thoughts about Terenka Crawford up from 154 to 168, to challenge Canelo Alvarez for his unquestionable championships with a super medium weight on September 13. “When I fought with Donny Lalonde, every time he hit me, he hurt me to some extent. He didn’t knock me down, but he hurt me to do it.”

When Leonard fought with the heavyweight champion WBC Donny Lalonde on November 7, 1988, he left a 19-month release, fighting with a larger, younger and stronger guy. One of the advantages that Sugar Ray had was that Lalonde agreed to come to 168 from WBC Super Middle WBC and 175-pounds of Donny on the line. Lalonde looked exhausted during weighing and could affect the result.

“It can do it. There is no doubt about it. That’s true [Canelo being too big for Crawford]But there is always a way to win – said Leonard.

As Leonard notes, there is a way for a smaller Crawford to win if he can find him against Alvarez. He must fight with Sharp and avoid getting into a fire with a larger, naturally stronger Canelo.

Crawford looked clearly slower in his last fight, moving to 154 after a year outside the ring, to challenge Israil Madrimov for his title WBA Junior Middle weight. Now, another year outside the ring, Crawford increases by 14 pounds to challenge Canelo in 168.

He will be slower, more Hitter, and he will have to bother Alvarez to try to win. Can he do this? Maybe. Canelo looked elderly and tired during the last fight with William Scull on May 3.

Eddie Hearn thinks that Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney are just fighting for money at the moment of their career. He says that with all the things they have gone through last year, they lost their interest in boxing, deteriorated and focused on making money.

Hearn feels terrible efforts that Ryan (24-2, 20 KO) and Haney (32-0, 15 KO) gave themselves during the Times Square event in Modern York on May 2, they reflected their focus on the dough. They are both among Class affluent in Uber, millionaires Many times and are not willing to take risks.

Hearn: Money spoils the fighters

You hear that Devin Haney says he is a hug in his “residence” over the past year, deciding not to fight after a lot of payment in losing to Ryan. You just know that the money has weakened the ambitions of these fighters.

Haney fought as if he were playing a tag against Jose Ramirez on the Times Square card, not wanting to get involved after receiving a reported bag worth $ 10 million per fight. Hearn says warriors change money. This is only a uncommon breed that is still ready to work demanding and fight with teeth and nails after becoming affluent.

When discussing what went wrong on the Times Square card, Hearn said that the warriors are “overpaid”. He did not mention the names of Haney and Ryan, but of course they were two of the three celebrated fighters during this event, who could not be improved. The third was Teofimo Lopez, who was running, showing all night like a clown in the fight against Arnold Barboza Jr. He was not interested in fighting.

“There is an element The fighters are overpaidAnd when you start making money, do you really want to physically put yourself in the trenches when your lifestyle is fantastic now? Maybe it is – said Eddie Hearn WarriorWhen discussing why The Times Square Fighters, Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia and Teofimo Lopez turned into destitute performances on the card on May 2.

It has always been like this in boxing. When warriors become one of the nouveau Riche classes, they do not want to train and avoid hit. When they fight, you see how they run, do not engage and try to win a minimum. Haney and Shakur Stevenson are classic examples.

“I think you can’t have the same way of thinking of a warrior when you earned a lot of money, and now you live in this house with 10 bedrooms [Correction: mansion] And you have three ferraris. . [fighters] They are like: “I really don’t want war. Why should I have a war? No, thank you,” said Hearn.

Turki Alalshikh decided to overpay the wrong fighters on the Times Square card, because none of these three have ever proved that they are solid fighters worth making millions. The best win in Haney’s career is a controversial decision about Vasily Lomachenko. Apart from him, he beat washed fighters over which he had an advantage of greatness. Ryan never beat anyone either. His best win is Luke Campbell.

The best win of Teofimo is a controversial decision against the wounded, older and much smaller Lomachenko. He always dodged or costly when he had the opportunity to fight high -quality opposition, which was not too high.

Replace the boxers powered by money

“Ryan is currently a million miles from the fight for the title of world champion, especially with failure,” said Hearn. “He also earns a lot of money. He thought,” I’m good. ” You will probably see how it disappears at some point.

Kingry can probably choose and choose the master he wants to fight. But it is “a million miles” since winning the title of the world. He will not win the title of master of the master at the age of 147 and I do not think that he cares. As Hearn says, Garcia is fighting for money.

“Sometimes the game takes their love. Ryan is probably in the place where he says:” I had so much s ***. I don’t even like boxing, but of course it is great money. So what next? ” – said Hearn.

Garcia criticized for making mistakes, positively testing PED, overweight, giving up Davis tank and showing no courage in his losing Rolly Romero. Ryan did not try to go out on the shield in this fight. He surrendered after dropped in the second round by Rolly and went into survival mode. Whatever Turks paid Garcia for the fight, wasted his money.

“Devin is there now. And Devin was never there. He was about belts, all about achievements. Then I think that Ryan’s fight really disappointed him, all experience. And I think now he thinks:” I don’t care. This makes you deteriorate as a warrior, “said Hearn.

Turki must take a broom and sweep Haney, Ryan and Teofiimo from his group from list A, which he uses during the Riyada season. He must focus on some teenage, hungry ghettors who want to entertain fans.

Thanks to these warriors, Turki must lose indolent after they became millionaires and look for a fresh blood. This is a rotary door. This includes Terence Crawford, Tyson Fury and Canelo Alvarez. They must be replaced by newer fighters such as David Benavidez and David Morrell, who still want to fight demanding and entertainment.

Like many fans, Promoter Eddie Hearn is surprised by Manny Pacquiao’s decision to leave the four -year pension and the receipt of green featherlight by the sanctioning body to challenge Mario Barrios for his title WBC WBC Welter Wweight on July 19.

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Hearn is not satisfied with this, because the 46-year-old Pacquiao blocks his plans to establish a unification between IBF and WBA champion Jaron “Boots” Ennis and Barrios. Indicates that Pacquiao is “Anyway close to the world level” After inactivity from 2021, this is just an example of the direction in which he spends sport.

Boxing becomes WWE?

Former UFC heavyweight master Francis Ngannou, he should not allow the fight with Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua in the first and second fight of his professional career. It could still happen. Terenka Crawford should not be able to jump two weight classes to go to the front of the line to challenge Canelo Alvarez for his unquestioned medium -scale mastery. You hate to say it, but the box changes into WWE, where everything goes.

“All masters are on Radar Boots. I still think it’s strange. I still think it’s strange that Manny Pacquiao is fighting for the world championship title. Five years after the ring, and not nowhere near the world level. But it’s boxing and this is business and we understand it,” said Eddie Hearn for this WarriorResponding to Pacquiao’s manny, who comes out of a pension to challenge the WBC WBC, Mario Barrios challenge on July 19.

Barrios is sensitive enough to lose Pacquiao. If the Filipino star is near the level in which he was in 2019, when he defeated Keith Thurman, there will be too much for Barrios. The 29-year-old was raised to the full title of WBC 147-LB outside the ring.

Barrios did not get the belt in a established way. Initially, he captured the WBC momentary title with a 12-round unanimous decision over Yordenis Ugas, who released from his dismissal, eye injury and loss of Errola Spence.