Manny Pacquiao Continues his Reign as the Best Boxer on US Soil
The WBC International Super Featherweight Champion Manny Pacquiao wasn’t quite himself in the first five rounds of his bout against his undefeated opponent Jorge Solis.
Manny seemed to be having a lot of trouble adapting to Solis’ unorthodox style, so much so that for a minute I thought the man that I picked as 2006 fighter of the year was going to get handed a defeat.
Until the sixth round that is… at about the halfway point of the sixth Solis caught Manny with and unintentional headbutt that split “Pacman” open over the left eye. Pacquiao decided it was time to turn it into a “slugfest” after the headbutt, he pushed Solis into the corner and uleashed a flurry of brutal punches.
The break between rounds didn’t calm Manny down, he continued to punish Solis through the course of the seventh round and into the eighth. Solis went down twice in the eighth round and stayed down after the second with a little over a minute left in the round.
Pacquiao improved his record to 44-3-2 with thirty-four wins by KO, and Solis unbeaten streak came to an end after 34 fights.
Solis, who must have still been punch drunk after the fight commented that his “wife hits harder than Pacquiao”. I’m supposing that means his wife KO’d him in less than eight rounds?
For all of you that are Pacman fans like myself, here’s a bit of footage of him beating up on some of the best fighters in the world - enjoy:
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