Pacquiao vs. Canelo... real possibility...

Ok. This actually seems like a real possibility. Pac is saying it's a good fight. Roach really wants it, and Arum appears to be salivating at the prospect of it...

If Pac won, how would you rate the win? How do you feel about this fight? I'll need to see how Pac looks against Bradley to get a real gauge on where he is at. I feel weird about it right now though.

 

Arum said they wouldn't make Canelo come down, so I'm guessing it'd be at 154 or 155. Maybe 153 if they negotiate well enough and convince them that Pac is just too tiny, too faded for the drainage to matter.

 

Thanks :good

 

You're confusing talking Mayweather for years to actually being asked about him.

I think both Mayweather and Pacquiao have been sick of talking about each other for years. It's the boxing media that has been questioning them nonstop/in every interview.

It continues even to this day. Their names will always be connected.

 

You're absolutely right. I still remember when Mayweather and Pacquiao ended up coincidentally being at the same Miami Heat game. Social media seemed to crash and sport networks were freaking out. It was insanity. And I thought, if the world stopped when these dudes were at the same basketball game together, imagine the reaction to them being in the same ring.

Such a shame it ended up having to be a complete cash grab. Those two had the world's spotlight on boxing- truly, the world's. It was an opportunity to really put boxing on the forefront of mainstream sports again like the Tyson, Holyfield era.

But like you said, the promotion of that fight wasn't a year long thing. It was an obsession by sport fans, casual and hardcores alike, that lasted for almost a decade.