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The encroachment of age is something no boxer can stave off indefinitely. At first, it approaches even the finest practitioners of the pugilistic arts almost imperceptibly, on little cat’s feet, but the sound eventually becomes noisy enough that it can no longer be disregarded.
As the days count down to his pay-per-view rubber match with Timothy Bradley on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, one has to wonder if the sound of those little cat’s feet in the mind of 37-year-old Manny Pacquiao has been replaced by the clamor of a snarling, charging tiger.