The Tale of The Compubox: Mayweather's Offense and Pacquiao's Defense

The compubox told the narratives of the fight, while also showing some surprising, shocking things.

Manny Pacquiao, known to a ferocious, high volume puncher, threw the lowest amount of punches in his career, only 429 punches. Another career low was against Bradley in April where he threw 563.

Manny came out weighing 152, the highest he's ever weighed in for fight night after weighing worryingly low during fight week, 143. People assumed Pacquiao would come in light to allow a "light on feet" footwork and for fast foot speed, yet on fight night, the audience saw neither. Instead, Pacquiao was extremely flat-footed, similar to how he was in Bradley 2.

Was it a question of stamina? Pacquiao avg 38 punches the first six rounds, 50% less than his normal avg which is 66 punches. Pacquiao normally increases his punch output by around 15 punches when entering rounds 7-12. Against Mayweather though, his punch output dropped and he ended up throwing 33 punches per round 7-12.

Pacquiao normally increases his punch efficiency the longer the fight goes on. There was not much change from Pacquiao this fight though, as he landed around 18% both the first and second half of the fight.

For Mayweather, stamina definitely wasn't an issue. He came out normal averaging 27 punches for the first 6 rounds, which is only 2 less than his norm. For rounds 6-12, unlike Pacquiao who declined punch output wise, Mayweather increased his punch output more than 10, avg 39 punches for rds 7-12!

Surprisingly, Mayweather landed at one of the lowest connect percentages of his career (along with Pacquiao lol ) landing 34%. That is actually Pac's normal avg surprisingly. 34% was a significant drop with Mayweather avg 50% over his past three fights.

To put it in perspective, both Mayweather and Pacquiao's defense imposed a lot on the other fighter. I think this is incredible. BOTH MAYWEATHER AND PACQUIAO CAUSED EACHOTHER'S LANDING % TO DROP THE SAME %. Yes!

Pacquiao caused Mayweather's avg landing % to drop about 16% (50 to 34). Mayweather caused Pacquiao's avg landing % to drop about 16% as well (34 to 18 )! I think that is just a huge testament to how evasive both fighters are. Unfortunately for Pac, he's landing % drop was seen more due to his avg landing % being lower than Mayweather's to start.

Many expected Pacquiao to come out and immediately apply pressure, but instead, Pacquiao boxed Floyd for a good half of the fight, picking his shots. As a result, Mayweather imposed his pace and was put in the most comfortable situation he could be put it.

Now, Mayweather is famously known for adjusting to a fighter's timing
allowing an increase in connect % the longer the fight goes on. However, yesterday was a slightly different story. Manny was consistently 18% throughout the fight. For Mayweather, the first 6 rounds, he landed on Pacquiao at 36%. For rounds 7-12, his landing percentage dropped to 31%. What does this mean, in your opinion? Did Mayweather get Pacquiao's timing down? Was Manny able to anticipate Floyd's attacks, allowing more evasiveness later in the fight?

If we go by stamina, Floyd by FAR had it. He increased it greatly the longer the fight went on while Pacquiao's declined significantly. It was evident to see. Floyd moved well all 12 rounds, while Pacquiao appeared very flat-footed and fatigued the entire fight practically.


Then, Pacquiao landed on avg 7 punches per round for 1-6 and 7-12, which tells me lack of adjustments. For Mayweather, he landed on avg 12 punches 1-6 and 12 landed punches 7-12. Both of them avg around 18 landed punches per round normally.


A lot of different variables went into the fight. One circumstance was, whoever was in the best condition would win, and I think it's clear that Mayweather was in much better condition.

Also, the decline in both of their landing % is interesting, especially since the % drop difference from their average is the same.

The narrative here is Pacquiao's inability to throw many punches and both of their ability to evade each other's punches and cause each other to miss, as well as their body conditions.

 

Oh good call, I'll edit it

 

I've rewatched the fight 3 times, frame by frame. Mayweather won but it was closer than people think. I scored it 113-115 Mayweather. I think their scorecards were really favorable, but I'm not surprised. Their past history of scoring showed they preferred defense over aggression which was MORE reason for Pacquiao to come out guns blazing.

 

Haha, people act the same way with basketball statistics. I love ****ytics in sports.

 

Manny stole some rounds whenever he was able to get Floyd on the ropes. Mayweather was missing ALOT, as was Manny, but when Manny landed, it was the more devastating blows. Add in that Manny was being the aggressor, I had Manny stealing some rounds. I had I think one round even. Maybe 2.