Who has more ADVANTAGES in the ring: Mayweather or Pacquiao?

Power: Pacquiao

Accuracy: Mayweather

Speed: About even

Ring Intelligence: Mayweather

Adaptability: Mayweather

Defense: Mayweather

Inside Work: Pacquiao

Chin: Pacquiao...Mayweather's chin remains to be seen.

Stamina: About even

Trainer: Pacquiao, mainly because PBF does his own thing

Footwork: Even

Heart: Pacquiao

Intangibles: Not sure what this means...

Prediction: I think Pacquiao will either apply enough pressure to cause Mayweather to be more defensive than offensive, or as he has done for his last 3 fights...bring something we haven't seen from here before, and knock PBF out. Either way, I think Pac wins.

 

What's the difference between RING IQ and RING INTELLIGENCE?

 

This one.

 

How can Pac have a better chin and he has been KO twice and rocked, put on ***** street in the Marquez fight, Larios fight, and maybe even others. The boys chin is suspect

 

Power: Tie. Actually Pac, but Floyd makes up by pinpoint accuracy.

Accuracy: Tie. Actually Floyd by a hair, but Pac makes up by volume.

Speed: Pac.

Floyd is fast. but because he is too cerebral, it takes him a split second to see an opening before taking advantage. Pacs comes at reflex speed from weird angles that his punches find openings for themselves.

Ring Intelligence: Floyd. But again Floyd takes time to think. If pac comes with the perfect strategy executed at warp speed, he might not have the luxury to do so.

Adaptability: Floyd. Same comments.

Defense: Floyd, but cuts both ways. If he becomes too defensive he will not be able to fire enough shots.

Inside Work: Floyd. But Pac-Roach team may come with a game plan to compensate.

Chin: Pac

Stamina: Depends. At a fast pace, Pac. At floyds pace, Floyd.

Trainer: Pac

Footwork: Pac

Heart: Pac

Intangibles: too vague, too many angles to discuss.

Prediction: None of the above helps. It's still a styles fight.

 

Why is it that you think Pacquiao has a better chin?

 

because pac regularly gets flushed shots from lighter weight up to 147 while floyd in the rare instance like when he got hit by zab was wobbled enough to touch canvas.

 

Floyd has never been stopped, nor anywhere near being in danger of being stopped.

 

The 90% of posters that picked Pac's "chin" as better are foolish and should stop talking right there. He's been KO'd before and buzzed in the majority of his fights. PBF has never been in any real trouble at any point in his career. EVER. All the sudden Pac has a better chin? Really? Based on what?

To say that PBF's chin has never been tested is almost as dumb. He doesn't get tagged often but in 40 fights you get hit often enough to figure out if you can take a punch. If this was ANY issue for Floyd at all, we would know it by now. atsch

Also, nobodys chin gets "better" as you move up in weight. That's like saying you run faster as you get fatter. However, Pac has seemed to keep his legs under him when he did taste some legit power early from Cotto. Then again, Cotto was moving Pac all over the place in round one from jabs and straight right hands. Cotto lost all sting in his punches once he started getting nailed in the exchanges. Every time he tried to load up he got beat to the punch. Over and over and over...

 

Yep, all true.

 

Pacquiao's chin seems incredible right now. He fought so much great opposition and its stood the test of time. I mean, this is the guy who was koed early nice and dropped and he still stands right in front off Cotto and takes his shots incredibly. All those wars etc........and hes still here and wont go down at all WITHOUT a great fight.

Mayweather's chin hasnt even really been tested that much because hes so great defensively. Someone has to get to his chin to see how it is. Defence is a different category and he gets an A for that defo.

 

Very true, if Muhammad Ali was never allowed to come back past his best in the 70s, people could have easily said this about him because of the way he danced around in the 60s - & some would have agreed..... how wrong they would have been.

You cant judge whats inside a fighter because they choose to use the style which suits them best, only when they have been pushed to their limit do we find this out... Pac v May might be that fight, who knows ?

 

147lbs Mayweather? Yes. Pac is better, we rarely see Mayweather(if at all), do inside fighting in the higher weights. Atleast Pac has done some inside fighting with Morales, Barrera and Marquez and recently Cotto. I'm not saying that Pac is a GREAT inside fighter as he is mostly a mid-range type of fighter. But atleast we have seen him in numerous inside fights with top fighters(and did damage there) compared to Mayweather who's content to be on the outside boxing the hell out of people.