Mexico’s Antonio Margarito is priding himself as the bigger and stronger man when he fights the Philippine’s lone champion boxer-legislator in November.
He is right. By far the tallest opponent that Manny Pacquiao has agreed to fight, Margarito could, by fight night, balloon into a full blown middleweight.
He will enjoy a reach advantage of at least seven inches because of his height and at least five pounds when he bulks up after the weigh in.
Pacquiao is no stranger to fighting men bigger than he is. In fact, he is making a living out of it.
The guys he beat - Marco Antonio Barrera, David Diaz, Oscar de la Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Angel Cotto and Joshua Clottey – were at least one weight division bigger than Manny’s natural fighting weight when he took the challenge of fighting them. Except for Clottey and Barrera in a rematch, all of them did not last the distance against the Filipino southpaw.
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