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前重量级拳王乔治.福尔曼认为,5月2日的世纪大战梅威瑟会点数败给帕奎奥。他认为梅威瑟的压力是空前巨大的,如果他输给帕奎奥,将彻底摧毁梅威瑟,甚至会不得不离开这个国家,找个地方设法从失败中恢复。
66岁的福尔曼有丰富的临场比赛经验,他职业生涯中的首败是在1974年的“丛林大战”中输给了默罕默德.阿里。
福尔曼说;“我认为帕奎奥赢得前六个回合,第七个回合回打平。梅威瑟会在最后一个回合争取扳回,但为时已晚,比赛将会通过单轮决出胜负。梅威瑟会在比赛一开始试图控制节奏,但帕奎奥也会采取先发制人的攻势,最后几个回合梅威瑟已无力回天。这将是一场梦幻般的,惊人的拳击比赛。它不会辜负所有的炒作,它真的会很精彩。
这场比赛对梅威瑟的压力很大,而帕奎奥做为曾经的失败者相对要好一些。做为一个拳击手,这个失败可能会摧毁梅威瑟,如果他败给帕奎奥,他可能必须走出去,呆在某个地方。这可能是一个原因,重赛将不会发生。
这可能是梅威瑟和帕奎奥在生活中最孤独的一个时间,周围有很多人在陪他训练,但这没有人会谈论这一点。你只能对自己说话,无处可去,面对寂寞”。
最后福尔曼警告梅威瑟,必须多出击,清晰有效的得点才能保证最终的胜利。
福尔曼说;“面对帕奎奥你必须多打组合拳和重拳,你KO不了帕奎奥,但无论如何要尽量在比赛早期争取保持点数的领先。对此帕奎奥只能进行报复,用他的风格和角度,但他很难攻击得手,因为梅威瑟是一个防守天才。要相信我,想要赢得每个回合就必须要进攻”。
Former heavyweight champion George Foreman is picking Pacquiao to defeat Mayweather on May 2, saying he think Mayweather would have to leave the country to recover from a loss
Jim Slater, Agence France-Presse
3:26 AM, Apr 24, 2015
Updated 3:26 AM, Apr 24, 2015
Mayweather is a solid favorite to beat Pacquiao, which Foreman thinks is added pressure on Mayweather. File photo by Justin Lane/EPA
Mayweather is a solid favorite to beat Pacquiao, which Foreman thinks is added pressure on Mayweather. File photo by Justin Lane/EPA
WASHINGTON, USA - Former world heavyweight champion George Foreman likes Manny Pacquiao over unbeaten Floyd Mayweather in their welterweight showdown next week in Las Vegas and warns a loss could devastate Mayweather.
Foreman has plenty of experience in superfight history, having suffered his first career defeat in a mega-bout spectacular in Zaire to Muhammad Ali in the fabled 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle."
And he sees a strong start for Pacquiao, a big rally by Mayweather but a decision for the Filipino icon, who is 57-5 with two drawn and 38 knockouts.
"I think Pacquiao to win six rounds, the seventh will be kind of even. Mayweather will come on in the last rounds but it will be too late. The fight will be won by a single round," Foreman said.
"Mayweather starts off early looking for a rhythm, Pacquiao will pop him early on, he will tire and Mayweather will come on in the later rounds but he will lose.
"It's going to be a fantastic, amazing boxing match. It will live up to all the hype, it really will."
Foreman knows all-too well the impact on a fighter who goes into such a bout unbeaten and comes out a loser, a fate he predicts for Mayweather, 47-0 with 26 knockouts.
It took Foreman 15 months to climb back into the ring against another opponent after losing to Ali, his first defeat after 40 career wins.
"I'm the one guy who knows what it's like to be undefeated going into a fight like that and to be knocked off that pedestal," Foreman said.
"Pacquiao has it a little better. He is already picked as the underdog. There's not a whole lot of pressure on him. But when you have never lost before in a fight of this magnitude, there's so much pressure on you, more pressure than you have ever had before, more pressure than on any other athlete right now."
It was 1991 before Foreman again fought for a world title and it was not until 1994, just over 20 years after losing to Ali, before Foreman reclaimed the title, defeating Michael Moorer to become, at 45, the oldest champion in heavyweight history.
"You lose your perspective on who you are as a human being," Foreman said, saying that could be a reason why a rematch would not take place.
"This could devastate him (Mayweather) as a boxer, not as a man but as a boxer. He might have to go out in the country somewhere if he lost."
'Loneliest hours'
Foreman, now 66, has an insight into what Pacquiao and Mayweather are going through and he stressed the solitude each fighter must face.
"This is probably, for Pacquiao and Mayweather, the most loneliest hours they have ever had in their lives," Foreman said.
"They have a lot of people around to train with but there's no one to talk this around with. You can only talk to yourself. There's nowhere to go but inside yourself. It's lonely."
Foreman advised Mayweather to attack early and go for combinations and power punches rather than make defensive moves and counterpunch, waiting for great chances.
"Against Pacquiao, you have to throw hard shots and go for the finish two or three times," Foreman said.
"He's going to have to throw combinations and big punches. You're not going to get a knockout but try early anyway to stay ahead on points.
"He can only use that counterpunching if somebody is attacking. Pacquaio uses his style and angles, he is hard to land on with a counterpunch. Mayweather is a defensive genius, but believe me, to win these rounds it's going to take offense."
Foreman was part of an HBO pre-fight special on which he joined Britain's retired heavyweight legend Lennox Lewis and Bernard Hopkins, who broke Foreman's record as boxing's oldest major champion, to examine big fights ahead of what figures to be the richest bout in boxing history.
"Us old guys love the comparisons. It gives us a chance to live again," Foreman said. "The comparisons are good although this is a great fight by itself." -
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