The minute you start talking about how small Pacquiao is, you’re beat. I told Shane, “if you fight him, if anybody in the camp calls you bigger than Pacquiao, I’ll put them out of the camp.”
Because that’s just media shit. Every time they mention Pacquiao they mention he started at 106 lbs. Well, hot damn, all of us at one time were under 25lbs! I got up to be over 300 lbs, but one time I was under 25 lbs. Why do they talk like that, “You know he started his career at 106.”
But they keep bringing it up and I told them the same thing; the greatest trick the devil ever did was convince the world he didn’t exist. The greatest trick that Pacquiao ever did was convince you all that he was a small man! And he’s going to keep beating the shit out of people who keep thinking he’s a small man. At 147 lbs., Pacquiao is a small man like Mike Tyson was a small heavyweight!
Was Mike Tyson a small heavyweight? Well, he was a pretty short heavyweight, but short and small are two different things. As long as they keep believing that they’ll get beat. Cotto did that though the first couple of rounds. He hit Pacquiao the first couple of rounds and Pacquiao stood there, and Cotto is like, what? He gonna stay there a little longer.
Let me ask you a question. Muhammad Ali was the taller man against Frazier, correct?
Ali shot the jab, and circled. Didn’t that happen?
When do we change in boxing and say, “the guy is shorter than me I’m gonna walk him down.” That was boxing 101, that was common sense in boxing. I thought everybody knew-I thought people who couldn’t box knew that. Cotto is in there, and Oscar walking him down. Is Muhammed Ali gonna walk Joe Frazier down? “Joe Frazier’s the small heavyweight.” So don’t tell me Pacquiao is smaller.
