Bob Arum “Manny Pacquiao, Bruce Lee style of boxing”
By Zato
In Bob Arum’s weekly blog In My Corner for the Las Vegas sun detailing the lead up to the Nov. 14th Pacquiao vs Cotto fight, he describes Manny’s training camp in Baguio, how he has never seen any other boxer train like the pacman and compares him to the late Bruce Lee.
Pacquiao who many boxing fans have liken to the martial arts legend, mainly due to their physical similarities and astonishing feats, Bruce for his one inch punch, Manny for his devastating left hand and both for their lat spread pose pictured above.
From Bob Arum’s Las Vegas Sun blog:
“The shear athleticism that Manny brings to his workouts reminds me of the great martial artist Bruce Lee. The more one reflects on Manny and his ring performances, the clearer it becomes that he is the Bruce Lee of boxing. This athletic style is unique in boxing to Manny. In more than four decades of promoting fights, I have never seen anyone like Manny Pacquiao and his Bruce Lee style of boxing.”
Manny Pacquiao the Bruce Lee of Boxing.
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Stupid shit…How can you compare a true legend and real top martial arts fighter to a guy who fights aged and drained legends?
Pacman couldn’t even hold Bruce jock strap
HJAHAHA
I agree Hector, Bruce Lee would knock that Weak ass Goatee off pacs face lol
Stop hating chumps, respect an opinion.
Manny Pacquiao is the greatest boxer of all time, even greater than Muhammad Ali. It is an insult to compare him with Bruce Lee because Bruce never had a single championship belt and Bruce has never been an official world champion. Manny has almost knocked out all of his opponents and he is a real champion and very kind to his people.
Joe Abba you make me puke! you already lost your credibility with that first sentence…damn pac nut hugger! is Pacquiao a God too?
Hey loco nut my juevos maricon sack my juevos PUTO and hector chingalera eat your burrito puto
pac haters are really funny.. just obvious jealousy..
You don’t understand English chingalera PUTO Manny Pacquiao the Bruce Lee of Boxing he dosen’t say he is bruce lee you PUTO is just a comment of the way his rhythm Chingalera’s.
lol at this joto HIT MAN CHINA CHAN lol talking mad trash I see go back to lick pacs balls man
Hey ese any time you wanna talk shit get read to cry on the november 14 when your hero and your only improtant person gets his ass handed to him by ko hahah
bruce lee would 1 inch punch that fool
Yeah, i with Joe Abba. Bruce Lee never really had any major accomplishments, let alone world championship titles. Maybe he had one world championship, and that was it. Pacman is actually better and has surpassed him because he holds 6 world titles. The only advantage of Bruce Lee over Pacman is that Bruce has more movies in Hollywood than Pacman. Wait till Pacman retires and enters Hollywood! Watch out! haha. Oh and also, Pacman is way richer than when Bruce Lee was still living.
Jude
I have to disagree with you bruce lee was a champion, he won the cha cha dance trophy in hong kong when he was 19 lol
pacquiao is bruce lee of boxing? HAHAHAHAHAHA and bob arum is the marlon brando/godfather of boxing? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA and cotto is chuck norris of boxing? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA wow, this really is a new way of promoting boxing.
I been saying that when I first seen Manny fight that dude remind me of Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee got wider Lats though.
Bruce would be proud of Pacman!
Pacman shows that an Asian can be the best boxer and have power in his hands too.
to Loco Willy get a life you puerto rican fag. All puerto rican should leave US you are pests here in US like rats. you are wasting our resources. Go home to puerto rico
stupid u all!!!lol!!! i am d true champion of the world.. fuck u all.. bruce lee & pacquiao.. hector,loco willy and everybody asshole!!
stupid puerto ricans and americans and also chinese.. i hate chinese..
Cotto will KO Bruce ” wan chan” Lee … I love to use all the wellfare of your fucking states bitch… Viva Puerto Rico
fucking shit jay rivera.. eat my dick.. viva labamba.. fuck u all..
hijo de futah… bruce lee has no accomplishment at all in the field of professional world class fighting.. and i dont see no championship belt.. perhaps a trophy for best martial arts action star… bruce lee, 1-inch finger punching the PAC? get real.. bruce wouldn’t last a round inside the square ring with the PAC.. choots!!!
ask EA sports
bruce lee was just a fiction, he could kill 1000 of his opponents in one sparring session without any scratch in his ass.
Yeah… another legend arise from Asia!! Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao! In fact better than Bruce Lee!
Asian people united together to honor Pacman beating caucasean guys… go manny! be number 1! Asian countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Cambodia, Korea, North Korea, China..etc.. supports on you my man!! comman’ kick some white asses, that makes the all small-guys asian united together that we also have pride that though we’re all have short-sized asses in general can also beat big asses in western world! hek!
ka manga bastos ninyo tanan oi. taronga ra gud na inyo sinultian kay murag wa moy mga grado.
dili na mao ang gusto sa Ginoo.
si Pacquiao sigurado maka daug sa duwa karon Nov. 14
Arum is grumpy old man. He has nothing to do about promoting except imagining things. I wonder if he can break Mayweather-Marquez > 1.6M PPV buys.
Last time, he trashed Mayweather for being not exciting fighter, choosing a smaller fighter and just circle around the ring for safety. Later he copied Mayweather’s trashing of MMA figthers as white skin heads and gays.
Now, he promotes Pac comparing to Bruce Lee? The best Pac can do is jump like a frog when attacking. Pac will taste how hard the punch of natural welterweight. This will be a bloody fight for Pac.
i do believe in your opinion. for me bruce and pacman are both asian but they are not the same in category. pacman prove himself as a fighter….and he will knock out cotto(lice)he will just pinch him . hehhehehe
Manny Paquiao is a fighter, not an actor. Bob Arum is a promoter, not a producer, so he’s no Marlon Brando either.
Manny Pacquiao is a warrior and fights like one. Bruce lee is an film martial artist who died because he cannot actually fight real fights.
To those who are jealous of Manny Pacman’s achievement, go find your Bruce Lee in his grave and I guarantee if he were alive today, Bruce Lee would adore Manny Pacquiao. He would be Manny’s biggest boxing fan and would volunteer to escort Manny to the ring in his fight against Cotto.
So stop the hate and spread the love, people. Manny comes one in a generation. He is like no one, like no one, do you hear me?
These fartoricans are so estupido. Here in America they form a bike gang like hell’s angels because el loco think he’s anglo saxon. He hates chinese because he looks like one. He hate bruce lee and manny pacquiao because they look like fartoricans too. Thats why hells angels call these fartoricans the ding a ling or ching a ling. They form bike gangs but they look chinese too. Manny compared to bruce lee THATS A GREAT HONOR. The difference between them is nobody dared to fight bruce lee in real combat. Not john saxon, chuck norris or robert wall. With pacquiao, anyone who challenge him, he puts them to retirement. Hey fartorican let your ivan calderon fight our marvin sonsona, he’ll surely beat the crop out of him. Hahahaha.
Ka salvajes mo istoria sa mga tao diri… basta ang gaba dili mag saba.
Loco Willy SUCK my Squid BALL you PUTO
then they should compare his ass to me too, I know martial arts, I have a wide back spread as him, and I have black hair like he does. WTF!
wow!! a lot of ideas coming out from this article..
what i see here is that, there are some asians who overpass the dreams and achievements of people from other part of the world,, n now what it appears that, what they have in thier mind is a rotten ideas and brain thats why most of the words that they can comment is bad ideas that signifies mental and thinking incapabilities…
and it appears that they enjoy doing things like these…
hey viewers, u cant compare bruce lee skills, its martial arts. no way pacman cud win if u let them fight. they are both in different league of their own. but bruce lee would never win with pac on a boxing fight with a boxing rules n same thing with pac on martial arts or karate fight with its own rules. but now pacman rules boxing poubd for pound. very entertaining, just all action n no fear to duck any fighters on his division or welterweight which is not his normal weight category. you’ll never he might go for berto, or even hopkins. did u imagine 3 years ago that he will go for a fight with cotto. no, im right yeah
Arum is a grumpy old man who can’t find otherway to promote pacquiao other than comparing him to martial art legend. I wonder if Arum can break Mayweather-Marquez PPV sales of 1.6M. Arum still uses antiqueted method of promoting.
Bruce Lee uses signature kicks as his weapon of destruction along cat sound growl. He strikes with his fists with no look stance.
Pacquiao releases wild punces coming from different angles. It looks like a child who doest know to box who just cirled his arms. Pac hops like a frog when hitting an opponent.
LOOK, I RESPECT BOTH BRUCE LEE AND MANNY PACQUAIO BUT THEY HAVE TOTALLY DIFFERENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS, FOR EXAMPLE , PUT PACQUAIO VS BRUCEE LEE IN A BOXING RING, BRUCE LEE WOULD BE BACK IN THE FUTURE…PUT MANNY PACQUAIO IN THAT FANCY ASS KUNG FU OR KEET WON DO OR WHATEVER U CAL IT, MANNY PACQUAIO WOULD BE LIKE WTF IS THIS GAY SHIT , NAW IM FUCKIN WITH U BUT SERIOUSLY FOLKS THEY ARE TOTAL DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT ACCOMPLISHEMENTS SO RESPECT EM BOTH
Manny Pacquiao is a huge Bruce Lee fan, and Arum knows it so he stokes him.
YouTube: “Bruce Lee is my idol” says Pacquiao.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejAGvC19CVo
How can you guys say Pac is better than Bruce based on wealth and “world-titles”. Fuck that. How does that make him a better fighter or athlete? Oh yeah, it doesn’t. Bruce Lee did much more than Pac anyhow. He created an entire style in its own. A style that made sense and broke the traditional bullshit that Martial Arts usually is, i.e. Karate. Jeet Kune Do, an original mixed martial art. Educate yourself before you start posting garbage. K, thanks.
I think there’s more truth to this article than most people are realizing. Sigung Lee’s style of boxing was heavily influenced by Jack Dempsey’s style (http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/112735669/jack+dempsey?tab=summary -pdf for his book). Pacquiao not only fights in a right lead with his power side forward, but his jab looks similar to Lee’s leading straight punches as far as I can tell from my research. Am I crazy or is anyone else seeing these similarities?
Hey, or somtyms u can even compare them to sammo hung and or stallone to make it funny i think! lol bull shit, lets not compare this celebrities, their talents doesnt match up!
Manny Pacquio is very famous all over the world.He is the hero of boxing history.