Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao May 2 MGM Grand Las Vegas

Personally can't see past a 3-4+ round Mayweather points win, be surprised if it doesn't go the distance anyway as Floyds never been a KO machine and he'll be too slick for Manny to get him imo.

The cynic in me would suggest a close points win for Floyd would be ideal for all concerned, sets up the even bigger money rematch for Floyds final fight.
^ I Should have had a bet on that pretty much chapter and verse what happened :p

People expecting a tear up have obviously never watched a Mayweather fight before or they thought he was going to throw out the gameplan which has served him so well throughout his entire career in the biggest fight of his life. High on skills low on thrills that's Mayweather!

Really hope he packs up after his next fight, go out 49-0 before like so many before him taking on one fight too many and getting beat as he is definitely slipping.
 
Really? The highlight of Mayweathers last ten fights was him sucker punching Victor Ortiz. Even his BS and pre match mouth is boring.

I don't know why people make out like Mayweather is all mouth. He's no worse than a lot of other boxers, in fact he's probably not as bad.

He's always respectful of opponents, never underestimates anyone, and it's obvious his fight preparation is perfect.

I think it highlights how good Mayweather is that he's so dislikable yet no one can deny his supreme abilities. Usually one can pick holes in someone who is a *****, but no one can have any criticism of Mayweather.

And not just Ortiz, what about the Hatton KO, his demolition of Alvarez, taking on a dangerous Maidana twice, schooling Cotto... In fact his only duff fight recently was vs Guerrero.
 
5 years ago this fight would have been worse for Pacman.

Nonsense!
Next you'll be trying to convince me that a 2007 Cotto would have been an easier fight then the washed-up and battered Cotto that Floyd eventually fought in 2012 (after he had fought Margarito with loaded gloves, and had epic battles with both Clottey and Pacman who WERE in their prime)

Also you can't deny he bottled it and ducked winky wright which is pretty pathetic considering he was the one that called him out.

Don't get me wrong his a great fighter (albeit boring to watch) but his undefeated record looks more impressive on paper than it does to an informed person imho.
 
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Oh and to those saying it was just about money... you do realise that he's called 'Money' for a reason perhaps? His team is called 'The Money Team'... He always talks about money. He always states he's in it for the money... I'm not sure why this is a surprise...!
 
Exactly, not only do they risk serious brain injury they also have to endure unbelievable training and dedication that would make most people (myself included) weep just at the thought of it!

This is imho the best pound-4-pound fighter (along with Ali), Floyd should be ashamed he compared himself to them!!


 
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Just wondering if the people who weren't happy that there wasn't enough action in a Mayweather fight watched Matthysse-Provodnikov a couple weeks back?
 
Just wondering if the people who weren't happy that there wasn't enough action in a Mayweather fight watched Matthysse-Provodnikov a couple weeks back?

I missed this, just watched it now- jesus. Just pure brutality there. Not sure if Provodnikov looked better or worse after 12 rounds :p I do like Matthysse. He should take on Maidana, that would be an excellent fight.
 
Had Floyd taken Pacman on 5 years ago the result could have been very different or the very least it would have been far more competitive.
He was fighting a Pacman who was far past his prime and who had a devastating knockout from Márquez weighing heavily on his mind, this is something Floyd has very cleverly done throughout his career:

Five years ago, the fight was a done deal, everything was agreed, but for one thing... The pacquiao camp did not want Random Drug Testing.

What sports man would be against random drug testing? A lot of people keep overlooking this.
 
Just wondering if the people who weren't happy that there wasn't enough action in a Mayweather fight watched Matthysse-Provodnikov a couple weeks back?

I'd guess that most of those who were disappointed with the 'lack of action' in last nights fight, have probably never heard of Matthysse or Provodnikov.
 
Thoroughly enjoyed the event, fight was intriguing and the atmosphere was great. Disappointed in the result but props to mayweather who was simply the better boxer / tactition.

From the first round you could see floyd had a speed advantage and had no trouble with pacs speed back-stepping out of the way. He also had a significant size advantage and looked more muscular than normal.

On the other hand pac looked a little soft, was missing some muscle definition and bulk around the neck / shoulder area. He also tired towards the end but that's probably down to being made to miss, body shots and floyd using some rough house tactics on him like leaning on him. Pac also looked a tad slower but that was probably just due to floyd being faster in the legs.

Floyd was throwing with power with straight right hands from the onset which set the tone, pac was worried getting timed coming in. When he backed him up would get tied up or floyd would circle left off the ropes back to the center. For me for pac to have a chance he needed to go old school pac style / unpredictable. He tried boxing his way in which he had little chance. He had some successes but floyd looked confortable through it.

5-10 years ago or any other time Floyd always wins. Manny is still legend and I would still rank him up there with Floyd as fighter of the generation.

Not interested in seeing a rematch. Would love to see how Floyd deals with Khan, which he would, but again seeing him do it displaying a different set of skills is well worth a watch.
 
Five years ago, the fight was a done deal, everything was agreed, but for one thing... The pacquiao camp did not want Random Drug Testing.

What sports man would be against random drug testing? A lot of people keep overlooking this.

Someone above was saying Mayweather avoided him though because after it there was nothing left to do to attract money :D
 
Pac also looked a tad slower but that was probably just due to floyd being faster in the legs.

Floyd was throwing with power with straight right hands from the onset which set the tone, pac was worried getting timed coming in. When he backed him up would get tied up or floyd would circle left off the ropes back to the center. For me for pac to have a chance he needed to go old school pac style / unpredictable. He tried boxing his way in which he had little chance. He had some successes but floyd looked confortable through it.

Agreed.

As much as I wanted Manny to go all out, you can't really do that against such sharp counter punching, Mayweather was pretty clever with his jab too and it was very effective and off-putting. Maybe pre-KO Manny would have gone gung-ho? It was a pretty nasty KO, never nice to see.
 
Ah the old shoulder excuse bothering him from round three. Laughable, lose with dignity. Probably the only injection he needed wasn't available to him with the increased testing ;)
 
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