Mayweather v Pacquaio - who wins?

Quality post. People picking Floyd forget he's not perfect.

Also, they use Marquez as a measuring stick, forgetting that Marquez had to throw through Pacs flurries to land significant punches. Whilst we can almost imagine Floyd doing the same thing but blocking instead of shipping, unlike Matquez, Floyd relies on his superiorspeed: which is not a given in this matchup.

Just saw on the Scene, Floyd slagging off Pacs performance (against a better Welter than Floyd has faced) and saying he woulda sold more tickets and has sold more tickets. How deluded dya wanna get?

 

what were the numbers from the pac v clottey fight? how many ppv's did it sell?

 

He was referring to the amount of people in the stadium. I have no idea of the PPV numbers.

 

The southpaw stance is perhaps the only real thing Manny Pacquiao has in common with Zab Judah; a fighter, who despite winning the opening rounds, was dominated by Floyd Mayweather Jr over the haul. It serves not as an indication that Floyd struggles with southpaws, but that 4 years ago, Judah was a world class 6 round fighter capable of countering and landing on any Welterweight around at that point in time. Slowly it became more and more fashionable to beat the guy, but Floyd won decisively.

The Castillo fight was at Lightweight, and as many have already pointed out, arguably Floyd's toughest ever challenge. I think I score it narrowly in favor of Castillo, but what does Manny Pacquiao have in common with Castillo? Not a lot, Floyd seemed to struggle because he wasn't allowed room to work, his shots were having zero effect, and he himself badly injured his hand mid-way through. Castillo, a great inside fighter who puts together combination's to body and head, Manny Pacquiao who likes to create angles for himself and throw flurries from mid-range. Castillo also had one of the best chins in the game whilst he was campaigning at 135lbs. Floyd redeemed himself in the rematch, winning fairly comfortably in my judgment.

An interesting comparison from my point of view is that of Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd Mayweather Jr. I ask myself, without re-watching both fights, why Juan was so successful at landing his gloves on Pacquiao's ever-growing head? I think it was that Pacquiao has always been a little bit vunerable when it comes to defending himself immediately after attacking, and Marquez was finding a home for his right hand....a right hand that is neither as fast or as a dynamic as that of Floyd Mayweather's. Clottey was fast enough to land his right hand lead, and I believe Floyd will be able to do that whilst engaging, and immediately after evading Manny's own attacks. That's to say, Manny gets hit more in this fight than he did against Clottey and Marquez.

All of that means nothing if Mayweather doesn't have enough snap to hurt Pacquiao, which will encourage him to stop throwing. Manny showed against Clottey that he can throw a stupendous amount of power punches in every round, and not really show any signs of running out of gas down the stretch. Mayweather can counter, but if Manny keeps on throwing for 12 rounds, the danger is that he gets outworked or in looking for counters, he gets caught himself. Floyd needs to give the Filipino a motive to stop throwing punches in clusters of 4's and 5's for every minute of every round.

Well, I think Mayweather does possess the power to get Manny's respect. He threw a right hand counter off the ropes against Oscar De La Hoya, and it slipped some of the commentators attention but certainly not mine. Oscar's legs buckled and he immediately stopped wildly throwing as he had before. He was hurt. I think Floyd can hurt Manny Pacquiao with his speed and technique, and I also think he can slow down Manny by throwing body shots, something that was almost completely void from Clottey's arsenal early on.

Needless to say, I pick Floyd but look forward to a good, competitive fight.