Writing the Pine

Implications of the Pacquiao-Cotto fight

Following Pacquiao’s complete decimation of Miguel Cotto in yesterday’s “fight”, the thought of a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight has the casual fight fan absolutely crazed right now. Pacquiao has been absolutely ruthless since his second victory over Juan Manuel Marquez back in 2008. In the past year and a half, Pac-man has been tearing through big-name opponents [...]

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Mayweather-Marquez Scorecards (sort of)

OK, so this article started out as a round-by-round analysis of the fight. YJ and I were going to keep our own scorecards and turn that into an article. Mid-way through the fight, I realized how ridiculous this was, because our scorecards (and everyone else’s who was watching the fight) would look exactly the same [...]

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