The official Mayweather vs. Pacquiao aftermath trash receptacle

If he knew about the injury before the fight, don't you think he would hit pac right arms and ko pacquiao knowing pac is a 1 arm fighter? It doesn't make sense. Coward for not trying to ko a fighter he knew was 1 arm before a fight?

 

My theory is Floyd's and #48's declining PPV. If this fight didn't get made now, they would have PPVed themselves to irrelevance.

The Floyd got wind of the injury theory is a little out there.

 

Nice tinfoil hat. Holy **** you guys are in denial, it's f*cking insane.

 

This what Im thinking ! Arum ran out of in house fighter to match Pac with that would not be a threat until ether he retired fighting bums or faced Floyd for a big money fight.

It time for pac fans to admit that Pac had not faced a dangerous puncher after getting KOed by Marquez!

 

48-0 that's not fiction. 118-110 easy work .

 

This. I am no floyd fan and was pulling for manny but lets move on. It may not be fair but such is life. You were injured you decided to get in the ring you lost get over it. This whole thing is a f#%king circus!

 

I agree. I have rewatched the fight for the 4th (and probably last) time today, and in fact most rounds are arguable either way. The only exceptions are round 1 (May), round 4 (Pac), round 6 (Pac), round 7 (May) and round 11 (May).

Lederman gave the 2nd for Pac. Rafael gave the 3rd and 5th to Pac. Two of the official cards gave him 9 and 10 too. Pugmire also gave the 7th and 8th to Pac. Gareth Davies scored round 8 for Pac and after 10 wrote that "controversy is brewing". Bob Velin from Boxingjunkie gave Pac rounds 2, 3, 7, 10. Rounds 4 and 6 are not debatable. If you add that up (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) you already have a case for a 117-111 (!!!) Pacquiao victory and, needless to say, all these scorers are credible and in high regard. Even if you look around here on this forum, people making an argument for a clear Mayweather victory are very diverse in actual scoring round by round.

It is of course artificial to combine the Pacquiao scores from separate scorecards, since approaches and perspectives are diverse, and you cannot cherrypick without disregarding their integrity. Still, the point is this: it was an extremely close fight, in which Floyd was slightly closer to victory than Manny in the eyes of most observers. He could fight at his pace most of the time, he kept ring generalship most of the time, he avoided Manny's attacks well, but NO WAY it was a 118-110 margin, nor a confident, "easy" work for Floyd.

Let's not speculate about injuries now. A 115-113 or arguably 114-114 fight between the world's best boxers can indeed deserve a rematch, with or without either fighter being injured.

On a last note, having watched and having ENJOYED the fight four times, I must strongly disagree with those who found this contest boring. It was boxing at its best, with stellar performances mainly on the defense side (not only by Floyd, but also by Manny), but also in many other respects. They were respecting each other a bit too much, they were afraid of each other a bit too much, but each and every second they spent in there was unique, very rewarding and a memory for a lifetime.

 

In other words you're saying that Pac won the fight. Right?:think

 

Watched this fight also 4 times now, and am quite settled on 116-112 for the moment. I thought it was an immense fight and you could tell that two behemoths of the sport were up against each other with a lot of the moves they were making and the skills on show. I agree that they were respecting each other a bit too much, which led to a good fight rather than a classic.

 

It's no nail in **** , who's been in the 3 biggest fights on PPV ? The truth is when money retires all you haters will miss him.

 

I agree. It is what it is. Floyd has figured out an exploit and he has no problem doing it as hes allowed and rewarded for it. Id put a 3 clinch limit per round. Any clinches that occur if the fighter is stunned are allowed and not counted toward the 3. First time you violate you get a warning, any time after that its a point. That would clean up the clinching in the sport. As far as running around the ring thats a bit more difficult and i think thats more in the control of the judges than the ref. Unless he takes off a point for it but thats a bit of a slippery slope there. Open to too much interpretation error.

 

Why not just give Floyd's opponent the win? Why put up impediments? :rofl:rofl:rofl

Floyd is fighting X ... X steps in the ring. X wins. No punches needed.

 

At the end of the day as far as im concerned Floyd fans have dont have anything to brag about. Your fighter won but did he destroy manny? No. This was a past prime injured manny who on a couple occassions backed floyd up on to thr ropes rather easily and all you could manage is to pitty pat your way to a decision? Floyd should have destroyed Manny! Manny landed the best punches of the fight for f@%ks sake!atsch

 

Pac would've lost that fight if were the same exact fight except six years ago when they first talked about it and Pac was the more popular fighter. This fight had nothing to do with popularity, did Pac even best Floyd in a single category, output, jabs, efficiency?? Pretty sure he didn't...ok just looked, out of nine categories Pac lead in a single category, and that's power punches thrown, not landed. It doesn't look to me that this had to with popularity, politics, etc. looks like the right guy simply just won by schooling the comparatively highly limited Pacquiao.

 

In short 118-110 easy work.