Pacquiao Now Stands as Favorite vs Thurman — Sportsbooks

[ityandsyn]

i think the OP meant older not younger in this phrase - "10 years younger than his opponent".

we will see how far pacquiao is prepared for this yet another fight of his career. he has nothing to prove anymore. he is already a legend in boxing. what is there to gain for this fight anyway? more money? proof that he can still fight at his age?  in any case, still interesting to watch this coming july...

       Yes that's true Manny is 10 years older than his opponent and as far as I know that Pacquiao was trained according to their program and he loves boxing as his passion in life so I don't think Manny will be beaten easily  , and if we try to analyze his last fight is not convincing to stop fighting.

[Oilacris]

Manny Pacquiao is now 40 years old, 10 years older than his opponent. He's past his prime years. His attention is so much divided, esp. now that he's very much needed in the Philippine senate (yes, he's a senator in his country), as the midterm senatorial elections have just concluded.

Thurman, on the other hand is young and undefeated. He's very hard on training with so much focus just on boxing. These are the main reasons Thurman is favored by all online sportsbooks.

Interesting read: Pacquiao Stands as Underdog vs Thurman

On any sort of analysis then we would able to see on who do have the edge on here in terms of active

training which do focuses on boxing only.We know that the other party(Pacquiao) is really busy with his
current senatorial career which do mainly affect his boxing-no doubt.This is on where they do get up their
odds but we know on what Manny is capable of.

[passwordnow]

Just as the expectation of others that Pacman is the underdog for this match.
So the basis of the odds just because Pacman has become older these days?

The basis is that Thurman is undefeated and young as compare to Manny, so the oddmakers put him as the favorite in this fight. But Manny's fans and himself knows that he can still pull the trigger, not like before though, be he still have the pops on his punch. We have seen it during the Lucas and Broner fight. The good thing though, the odds is very attractive, so I'm sure that many boxing afficionados will bet for Manny Pacquiao in this fight. And who knows, maybe the odds will change as the fight get's closer.

Definitely many Manny Pacquiao fans would bite the odds. I'll bet but I think that will be few days before the match to have that verification if the odds didn't really changed at all. Manny still has his winning punch and I've this many times with his other fights where he's treated like this. The crowd's favorite was his opponent but still he won that fight, I can't remember if that's with Clottey or Bradley.

[Caladonian]

Getting your point OP, in terms of age gap Thurman maybe much quicker than Pacquiao there's no doubt about that this can be the factor why sportsbooks
based their bookies odds, but it can also be a trapped for people to play with thurman as experienced and determinations can still be with Pacquiao, knowing how he loves fighting for the glory of his countrymen, be very careful not being tricked analyze more deeper before betting.

Thurman is indeed young, quick and undefeated but pacquiao is a legend when in comes to boxing so he can still be a strong opponent to Thurman. I think it too early to predict that Pacquiao is an underdog because I know he prepared enough for this match.

Yeah right, there's still time to analyze and not to fall or if you are really a fan and you love taking the risk betting with Pacquiao will give you a comfortable earnings when he wins it, speed vs maturity will determined who's going to win this match.

Take your side according to what you observe and analyze then enjoy watching the fight.

[Noilee]

i think the OP meant older not younger in this phrase - "10 years younger than his opponent".

we will see how far pacquiao is prepared for this yet another fight of his career. he has nothing to prove anymore. he is already a legend in boxing. what is there to gain for this fight anyway? more money? proof that he can still fight at his age?  in any case, still interesting to watch this coming july...

Even if he younger than on his opponent Pacquiao was a great boxer all over the world. This coming fight we will see if who will win in their fight. We see it already in the past fight of Pacquiao that he has already many proven for the boxing.

[suzanne5223]

i think the OP meant older not younger in this phrase - "10 years younger than his opponent".

we will see how far pacquiao is prepared for this yet another fight of his career. he has nothing to prove anymore. he is already a legend in boxing. what is there to gain for this fight anyway? more money? proof that he can still fight at his age?  in any case, still interesting to watch this coming july...

Even if he younger than on his opponent Pacquiao was a great boxer all over the world. This coming fight we will see if who will win in their fight. We see it already in the past fight of Pacquiao that he has already many proven for the boxing.

You're when you said Pacman have improved in his previous fight with Broner but don't forget he won the fight with an eye injury which was said to be severe but his camp never said anything about it and having an opponent like Thurman which was among the hardest punchers things might get worse for Pacman which was the reason why online sportsbook chooses Thurman.

[kotajikikox]

I still believe in Pacquiao even he is older than Thurman.I still believe in capacity of sir Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao.He is strong even he is old. Lets just wait and see for the coming game I believe Pacquiao can still make it to win.

[Lan75]

There is already a thread talking about this fight so it is better that we should focus on that one as what we are discussing here is the same on the first thread.

OP, please lock this thread and you should see to it that the OP you made is not redundant.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5142112.msg51008907#msg51008907

[tippytoes]

i think the OP meant older not younger in this phrase - "10 years younger than his opponent".

we will see how far pacquiao is prepared for this yet another fight of his career. he has nothing to prove anymore. he is already a legend in boxing. what is there to gain for this fight anyway? more money? proof that he can still fight at his age?  in any case, still interesting to watch this coming july...

Even if he younger than on his opponent Pacquiao was a great boxer all over the world. This coming fight we will see if who will win in their fight. We see it already in the past fight of Pacquiao that he has already many proven for the boxing.

You're when you said Pacman have improved in his previous fight with Broner but don't forget he won the fight with an eye injury which was said to be severe but his camp never said anything about it and having an opponent like Thurman which was among the hardest punchers things might get worse for Pacman which was the reason why online sportsbook chooses Thurman.

I really hope he will not be hit hard that he will regret of getting this fight. What is his main motive of having this fight at the dawn of his boxing career? He has everything already, yet he feels that he's still in his primetime years.

[mich]

This is not a big surprise to see the older man here Pacquaioas a underdog versus the undefeated younger champion
Just because the odds do not favor Manny here doesnt mean he wont win.
I am not sure who i will be taking in this one since we still have a short while before we see the weigh in.

[mich]

No Manny Pacquiao is not Underdog in this fight like in fact i think he will win in this because base in age like example in experience,speed and strategy then he develop this more than Thurman another thing we know if you base in the punch then Manny is in fighter like he will fight for the K.O then not running around the boxing ring so he's perfect as a boxer then very wise in his many fight

Check the odds anywhere you look Pacman is the underdog

[rodel caling]

i think the OP meant older not younger in this phrase - "10 years younger than his opponent".

we will see how far pacquiao is prepared for this yet another fight of his career. he has nothing to prove anymore. he is already a legend in boxing. what is there to gain for this fight anyway? more money? proof that he can still fight at his age?  in any case, still interesting to watch this coming july...

Yeah I support your opinion both fighters are have an own capality no need to talk about age gap. We know many being a legend in boxing they can use it their experience to get win for this fight, in boxing not a basis younger or stronger to get win, if the fighter are stronger with have lot of strategy and experience possible to get win. So I bet for many lot of strategy and experience he have to get win these fight.

[peter0425]

I think it the odds won't change even if we get closer to the fight date. There have been a lot of open workouts already. So if oddmakers see's something then they would have change the odds by now. As @mich as said, even if Pacman is the underdog here, it doesn't mean he can't win this difficult fight.

[Johnzky]

There is already a thread talking about this fight so it is better that we should focus on that one as what we are discussing here is the same on the first thread.

OP, please lock this thread and you should see to it that the OP you made is not redundant.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5142112.msg51008907#msg51008907

Lol those are two different thing

Here the topic is about Manny Pacquiao is being UNDERDOG from Thurman while the one that you have mentioned is simply talking about the fight itself and nothings issue

And this is more latest issue as the fight is coming nearly to happen

[thin]

Well, Pacquiao is for sure great boxer, but his best times likely over.  He is more than 40 years old, and already retired once. I don't know what forced him to return, shouldn't he earn enough to leave boxing out, and find a more safe way to get enough adrenaline for a life?  

[finaleshot2016]

Well, Pacquiao is for sure great boxer, but his best times likely over.  He is more than 40 years old, and already retired once. I don't know what forced him to return, shouldn't he earn enough to leave boxing out, and find a more safe way to get enough adrenaline for a life?  

Agree, his best time and the awesome fights have happened when he is young. I don't think it will bring a good fight but still hoping that Manny Pacquiao wins. If you're asking the reason why he still fights is that his life is on boxing, the reason he gained respect from others is boxing, the reason that changes your life is boxing so do you think it's easy to leave boxing?

He didn't need money because he has a lot of it, I think he is looking for a challenger that will definitely make him knock down.

[jakelyson]

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Yeah I support your opinion both fighters are have an own capality no need to talk about age gap. We know many being a legend in boxing they can use it their experience to get win for this fight, in boxing not a basis younger or stronger to get win, if the fighter are stronger with have lot of strategy and experience possible to get win. So I bet for many lot of strategy and experience he have to get win these fight.

Age will always be a factor in sports. You get wiser but you also get slower, weaker. And in boxing, speed and strength is the determining factor.

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the reason he gained respect from others is boxing, the reason that changes your life is boxing so do you think it's easy to leave boxing?

He is already a senator, he does not need boxing to gain respect. It would be easy for him to leave boxing because he has other jobs to focus on. He should focus on being a Senator and leave boxing to younger and fitter boxers.

[DoublerHunter]

The people here are not seeing the point of the who posted this. As you can see, Pacquaio stands as the underdog for this match. Because
of his age compared to his opponent, his senatorial position that affects his focus and so on. But the point is, he's the underdog and the sports betting for their match is really tricky. Even though Pacquiao has nothing to prove, the gamblers must be careful with their choice to this match.

[ruthwithers1980]

There is already a thread talking about this fight so it is better that we should focus on that one as what we are discussing here is the same on the first thread.

OP, please lock this thread and you should see to it that the OP you made is not redundant.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5142112.msg51008907#msg51008907

Lol those are two different thing

Here the topic is about Manny Pacquiao is being UNDERDOG from Thurman while the one that you have mentioned is simply talking about the fight itself and nothings issue

And this is more latest issue as the fight is coming nearly to happen

Right. The focus of this thread is more on the odds or the betting angle. The purpose is to elicit discussions on why Pacquiao is the underdog as shown in the odds or why he has to be the favorite rather than the underdog.

[Shinpako09]

That's not actually surprising considering Pacquiao is already 40yrs old and his opponent is young and undefeated. Pacquiao is just underdog when it comes to odds but when it comes to experience, he is above Thurman. I believe he is fully prepared for this fight and has a good tactic to beat this guy already.