Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -- Who wins and why?

Would he have been unbeaten if he had fought Mosley, Cotto, Margarito and PW?:nono

 

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Ha ha tru dat.

 

Knowing now that Manny can take a shot from a bigger opponent, I'm sure he can beat Mayweather. Mayweather's defence is always his key to success being unhurt most often in his fights. Manny is sure going to hurt FM and thus making a disarray of that defences.
Manny can come to Mayweather knowing he can stand the shots and being fast himself with power of his own. Psychologically, Mayweather will have that inclination that he wasn't able to plod into ODLH while Pacman had an easy time. This will factor in his tight defences where he'll always have that split second thought of blocking or punching. That's enough to give the Pacman the edge of scoring first than Mayweather. I'm sure now that Manny is a heavier puncher than FMJ.

 

Probably. I could see him beating an old Mosely by UD. He would certainly beat Cotto by UD and Marg by UD. Williams would give him trouble but I see him squeaking out a close UD.

 

Oscar had all of those advantages over Pac too, more so, and Pac dominated Oscar - who took PBF to an SD.

I also hope Pac fights Hatton, wins, and then tempts PBF out of retirement for the biggest fight since Hagler-Leonard in '87.

It's very very difficult to pick a winner in this one. Mayweather's skills are sublime, but Pac's speed and power even up at 147 looked incredible.

I think if the fight is made at 140, which Mayweather could get down to IMO, Pac wins. At 147 (the more likely weight for it to be at), it's too close to call. I give a slight edge to Pacquiao as his speed and aggression should see him rack up a lot of points (PBF is not as quick at 147 as he was at the lower weights earlier in his career), and I can't see Mayweather stopping him. But I would never count a guy with Mayweather's skills out completely, it wouldn't shock me at all if PBF turned in a virtuoso defensive performance to take the win.


WHAT A FIGHT it would be!!!!!!

 

Don't look too much into that Floyd SD Oscar result. Floyd won that fight easily and he wasn't even fighting his best.

I could see PBF stopping him like he stopped Hatton in a very competitive fight. This fight would the fight of the year type match.

 

atsch
#1 Probably
#2 old
#3 UD

I was more looking for:
#1 Definitely
#2 Prime
#3 KO, TKO, KD

 

Mayweather did deserve the decision v Oscar, but he was very poor that night by his own standards IMO. PBF is not the same fighter at 147 that he was at lower weights. And Pacquiao is a far better fighter than Hatton. I can see Pacquiao beating Mayweather, but I can't say I'm confident of it. Very very close to call.

 

What scares me for Floyd is his lack of punch output at times. I wonder if Pac could just "out busy" him to a victory.

Either way, great fight!

 

I'll take Mayweather Jr. in this fight. The key fights to look at are Mayweather vs. Judah and Marquez vs. Pacquiao. Even though he's developed that right hook, Pac is still heavily dependant on that straight left. It's very quick, and hard to see coming. Judah is arguably faster than Pac and has comparable power. Judah had a hard time landing that straight left on Mayweather. If Pac can't land that straight left, he's in trouble. Meanwhile, Pac was getting tagged by straight rights against Marquez, and was getting hit a lot to the body with left hooks. Mayweather, has a better straight left than Marquez. He hides that right hand well, and it's very hard to see that straight right coming. I don't think Pac will be able to box Mayweather like he did Hoya. If he tries to fight him like he did Marquez, he could be eating counter shots all night long. Pac has made a career winning fights that he had no business winning. That pattern would continue if he were able to beat Mayweather.

 

Mayweather...and I am a huge Pac fan, thought he was going to win last night, even bet 5 bucks on him.....

But Mayweather hasn't looked hittable in like half a decade.

 

What are you talking about?

 

Not to mention that Pacquiao won't be knocking Mayweather down like he did to Marquez.

 

good counter argument.:good

talking about getting totally owned.

 

Co-signed