How does manny pacquiao gain weight

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Verstappen would run No. Variation is a certainty in everything, so again, it is no big surprise that some fighters are above average while some are below average. Where things get interesting is in the extreme cases, and among these fighters there is no bigger extreme than Pacquiao. The man has 8in wrists, which is higher than the wrist average for heavyweights.

When you consider he is only While I was not thinking of this at the start of this little project, something caught my eye as I looked at the data. One of the things that has characterized Pacquiao during the past two or three years is his ability to punch extremely hard for someone his size against seemingly bigger foes. Well, two fighters among those I checked who also were recognized for their power and who also have 8in wrists with much smaller height than their wrist size would suggest are Joe Louis, 74in height, 8in wrists should be 7.

I'm assuming it is not necessary to highlight that both Louis and Tyson fought at the heavyweight class. So far I've only looked at height and wrist together.

Now we all know weight is a crucial element in boxing, it is the way to ensure that fighters fight against someone their own size and don't get unfair advantages. What I did next was I used both height and wrist size as my input variables, and the weight of each fighter as the outcome variable and again did a regression analysis.

Again the result was statistically significant, meaning that indeed height and wrist can predict the weight of a fighter. I again compared this outcome to the one reported in the bone study I mentioned before. So again using a height of The actual average weight for the participants in that study was lbs, so my estimate is off by 10lbs, but if we take into account that most fighters typically fight lighter than their actual walking weight then I'd say the result is probably not to far off since the equation was built using official fighting weights.

Using the same approach I did before, again I found that some fighters fight at around their expected weight, some fight lighter than they should meaning they probably really kill themselves to make weight , while some actually fight heavier than what you'd expect given their height and wrist size this was the case for almost every heavyweight.

Something to take note of, is that if you add 10lbs to the expected weight of a heavyweight then most of the heavyweights included here fight right around their target. This makes sense if one assumes a heavyweight doesn't need to drain himself to make weight and fights at a weight closer to walking weight assuming they stay in shape between fights.

Having this information in hand I looked at some particular cases. The two men that sit at the top of every p4p list right now are Mayweather and Pacquiao. Floyd has always looked nearly unbeatable at lbs and Pacquiao certainly does as well since he moved into the division.

So what are their expected weights: lbs for Floyd, lbs for Pac. Some other interesting cases:. Marquez has always looked in top form and at his best except when he fought Floyd as a welterweight. Even at lightweight many think he is already pushing his limit, well, according to my calculations his fighting weight should be lbs, just around the weight where he gave Pacquiao hell in their second fight and defeated Barrera. Many people have used this argument to suggest something improper on the part of Pacquiao; what they miss is that Pacquiao's wrists are 8in while Marquez's are only 6.

This highlights why a great fighter like Pacquiao can easily adapt to a much higher weight without losing any speed, power, or chin, while another great fighter like Marquez can't, event though both have very similar heights.

Another interesting fighter is Margarito, he always seemed huge for a welterweight, and prior to his defeat against Mosley there were reports that he looked awful in camp and struggled to make weight Margarito claims that was the reason he looked so bad in that fight. Since then he's moved up in weight, and against Manny, even though he made the catchweight of lbs, come fight night he was close to the super middleweight limit.

Well, his estimated weight is lbs, since he has decent height 71in, and bigger than avg wrists 7. Margarito is someone who certainly benefited from having really big bones in a division that should be too small for his frame size, which might explain why his iron chin took so damn long to get cracked.

He started out at around and is now hovering around He has beaten a who's who list of legitimate legends—with the notable exception of Floyd Mayweather Jr. And many fans and pundits alike could legitimately put him in the top 10, top 5, or even the greatest boxer of all time. After all, he has created history before, and continues to create history with his boxing, leaving a trail of bruised and battered bodies in his wake. But it's exactly history that will ultimately keep him from being the greatest, or the top 10 boxers of all time.

Though Pacquiao has been great at everything he's been doing lately, even showing bigger and stronger fighters that he can compete—and win—in higher weight classes, he is not the perfect fighter nor one who has achieved the most in his career though one could argue he is close in both regards. In fact, when weighing his credentials to be the greatest of all time, It's no longer about what he did or didn't do, but about what everyone else did.

And through no fault of his own, he will be compared and scrutinized against the greatest fighters in history, and on many levels, he just falls short. He is not undefeated. Other great fighters, like Mayweather, Joe Calzaghe, or Rocky Marciano—still the only Heavyweight champion to retire undefeated—have that proud distinction.

Pacquiao has suffered losses and has even been knocked out before albeit at a much lighter weight and early on in his career. In fact, he even lost to Erik Morales a few years ago, and many would argue that he should have lost the second Marquez fight. When comparing him to other great boxers in history, his contributions to the sport, though great for Filipinos and other Asians, pales in comparison to the historic contributions to the sport of boxing and to human kind when compared to other greats like Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, or Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay who paved the way for others like them.

Whereas Johnson was the albeit reluctant face of African-American boxing during his time, and Ali was the face of civil disobedience and civil rights, Pacquiao has not shown himself to be an activist or visionary with long-term contributions to the world. At least not yet. And unlike the boxers of the past, he has only fought professionally—from the age 16—a total of 57 times. Compared to fighters like 'Sugar' Ray Robinson, Willie Pep, Roberto Duran, Henry Armstrong, and Archie Moore, who fought literally hundreds of fights during their careers, his fight resume looks pretty bare.

More importantly, and through no fault of his own, his style of fighting has made him so good that he hasn't experienced the kind of life or death battles that define fighters' careers. Like Mason "The Line" Dixon in Rocky Balboa , and to a point, the Klitschko brothers, his fights have been largely one-sided beatings and displays of his superior speed, strength and toughness, and really what he needs is to show that he can come out victorious in a slugging match, where both fighters are down to their last vestiges of stamina.

The reduction of rounds from 15 to 12 may have something to do with that. He hasn't had to face the wars that say, Israel Vasquez and Rafael Marquez faced in their trilogy. And ironically, the closest he's been to these wars were in the lighter weight divisions, against Erik Morales, and later against Juan Manuel Marquez.

He's never had to fight from the completely bleak jaws of defeat to come out victorious, something that Margarito does numerous times, much to his own detriment.