SN: I dont think Paulie is slipping yet, he just has the habits of fighting down to the level of his competition, and overlooking fighters, similar to Cotto. Paulie already has the mental battle won, thats half of the battle, it will be a tough ugly fight
this is too true, the paulie in the senchenko fight was so different to the one in the cano fight. i guess he thought cano was gonna be a slow mexican bum he could outbox, he got caught flatfooted a LOT. obviously i hope its not the age thats showing, or it couldve just been stylistic pressure. he was getting rushed and hit to the body a lot, maybe he didnt train extremely hard for the fight, maybe cano had a big advantage due to missing weight, who knows