Sergio Mora believes that a late switch from Errol Spence Jr to Yodenis Ugas could be a potential banana skin for Manny Pacquiao.
Pacquiao and Spence had been due to fight this weekend but the IBF and WBC welterweight champion suffered an injury that required surgery on his eye.
Ugas has been called up as a late replacement to make sure an event goes ahead, and former world champion Mora told JABS on DAZN’s Boxing Show that Pacquiao has little time to readjust.
“If Manny Pacquiao was training for ugas from the get go, I wouldn't give him much of a chance but because he wasn't training for who got said he's a replacement, even though he does have a couple of weeks to adjust,” he began.
“That's not going to be enough to adjust the hunger. It's gonna be an entertaining thing. He wasn't preparing for Ugas, he was preparing for Errol Spence. That's not happening now. So he has to, he has to really gauge down the hunger and the motivation that he had for fighting Spence.
“Now fighting a good fighter, someone that's been to the top level, but he's not pound-for-pound level. So it's just going to be having to calibrate that hunger that was lost. That's always dangerous.”