Pacquiao vs Rios Prediction Results - Pacquiao Wins - Today is the Manny Pacquiao vs Brandon Rios fight. A big event, huge. Manny Pacquiao, is coming off a devastating knockout loss. He’s also in his mid-30s now. He has been out of the ring for a year. Does he still have what it takes?

In his prime, fighters like Rios is a perfect match for Pacquiao. Manny eats for lunch forward fighters like Rios. Remember the Hatton fight? Remember Manny’s perfectly timed knockout? But those are now but a distant memory to the shade of what we’ve seen this couple of years. Where is the quick footed, dervish flashes of lateral movements, during the Bradley fight? Why would he walk right through a Marquez trapped, falling to the same mistake that Hatton has done?

Previous recent fights posed lingering questions: was he himself at the Bradley fight? In the Timothy Bradley fight, even though Pacquiao won the fight, Manny Pacquiao was lacking a certain amount of explosiveness that is emblematic of his style. In other words, Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley seems subdued. It didn’t seem like Manny Pacquiao that we all know and love. In his 4th bout with Marquez, before the knockout, Manny Pacquiao was hit with a punch that he didn’t see coming. He used to see most of the punches coming, especially those who hurt him. Is the energizer bunny fighter, the legendary great with unbounded stamina long gone?

There’s only one truly unbeaten champion in the chronicles of boxing, and that is aging. How does physical aging catch up with you? It starts to look like you’re just on your game. It’s almost imperceptible at first - It looks like you’re a little slower, the reflexes are not quite there, looks like you’re having an off night. Then suddenly the people around you started to notice that you’re having a lot of this moments. That the highlights of you as a young man exceed what you’re doing now. Fighters you used to blow over as a young man, who in your prime you could take for granted, suddenly start being competitive with you. Some of them, even looks like given the right circumstances, could beat you.

Then there’s the devastating knockout that Pacquiao suffered from Marquez. Can he recover from a loss like that, can anyone? When Pacquiao was dazed on the canvas, he’s not looking around, wandering where he is. No, Pacquiao is not even conscious, he’s out of the ring, out there somewhere. The knockout was so bad that even casual spectators are shocked at the ferocity of the spectacle.

Manny Pacquiao's forte has always been his in and out movement. An offensive maestro, he has mastered the perfect angles on how to close the distance on fighters who have much slower foot. Rios likes to get close to setup his shots, but unfortunately he lacks the foot speed to be effective against a fighter like Pacquiao. Yes, even though Pacquiao is now older, a shade slower, he still has enough brilliance in his in him to take Rios to school. The real question is, when Rios is softened up, does Pacquiao have enough killer instinct to finish Rios once and for all?