Pacquiao and Cotto - Face to Face

Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao Latest News from philboxing.com Fri, 09 Oct 2009

HBO has released the longer version of their “Face Off” hype piece for Pacquiao/Cotto, and it’s well worth watching. As I said before I love the set-up; it’s either something out of the dark ages – a pre-industrial morality play – or a post-apocalyptic step towards madness, like a low-budget German remake of “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.”

Of course, the participants don’t quite take it as far as they might have. Neither Cotto nor Pacquiao are anything other than polite. But I think it still works. It’s impossible to expect more from them, in that their personalities and limited language skills preclude the sort of outrageous chest beating I find particularly appealing. Nevertheless, we get as sense of the competitiveness and underlying confidence of each man...

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