Pac vs Mayweather, what went wrong?

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  1. PIPO23

    PIPO23 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You have quiet an imagination. Last time you said hr beat him to a pulp.Was it you or someone else. None of that happened he won but not in the manly man way he was running, hugging and out boxing.

    That's how it went down. He wasn't fighting like a manly way. His daddy was saying that why is you scurred? You see! i didn't make this up unlike you.
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  2. N17

    N17 Loyal Member Full Member

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    I never said Mayweather beat Pacquiao to a pulp, but he comprehensively outpointed Pacquiao in my opinion.

    I'm sorry, but what's fighting in a "manly way"?

    Did you or anybody else expect Mayweather to go toe to toe with Pacquiao?



    Look, Mayweather won and Pacquiao fans have never got over it, it was reported some even ended their lives at the time, absolutely tragic, and they still seem rather upset by it all, I think it's very disturbing how Pacquiao fans just can't accept this defeat..


    Marquez smashes Pacquaio, Pacquiao was out cold for minutes, flat on his face and we have all sorts of allegations from Pacquiao fans and a list of excuses.

    Mayweather beats Pacquiao after all that crap talking from Pacquaio fans over five years and they can't accept it, another lorry load of excuses and reasons.


    Are there any Pacquaio defeats that Pacquiao fans accept with good grace?
     
  3. aaalbert

    aaalbert Boxing Addict Full Member

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    To be honest, I think people should be mad at Pacquiao more than Mayweather.
    Mayweather fought exactly the same way after becoming TBE (PBF, different fighter) and whether he was on PEDs or not, well, at least for me, I really couldn't tell.

    Pac on the other hand, knowing full well what he was getting himself into, just couldn't neutralize Mayweather's style and in the words of Robert Garcia, "Didn't have a game plan"

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    I love Manny Pacquiao and I think the fact that he's been fighting since the 90's and him becoming an 8-division world champion is a tremendous feat. But I also feel that you have to give credit where credit is due and Mayweather was just the better fighter that night...
     
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  4. SquaredCircle

    SquaredCircle Active Member Full Member

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    Manny reaches and has trouble setting up his offense against elite movers. When you throw a great jab in the mix, it's even more difficult. Also, he wasn't able to cut the ring off on Floyd (as expected), nor was he ever a threat to do effective inside work. Floyd cut his workrate significantly.

    Manny was past his very best and clearly not the same guy from his peak, but you could say the exact same thing about Floyd. Don't think the result changes even if this took place in 2009 or 2010.
     
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  5. aaalbert

    aaalbert Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Maybe slightly more competitive but yeah, pretty much the same results...
     
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  6. Rdc4444

    Rdc4444 Member Full Member

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    The only pacquiao fight I’ve ever watched that I was bored to death was against Mayweather. It’s a shame pac had an injured shoulder and Mayweather fought his usual boring fighting style. This should have been a Hagler Hearns type of fight but Mayweather chose to run, hug and pot shot his way to victory. The fight was the snooze fest of the century because of Mayweather’s style of fighting.

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    Holyfield also agrees...

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  7. Alo2006

    Alo2006 R.I.P Sean Taylor Full Member

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    Nothing went wrong. Pac just got out boxed by Mayweather. He made no adjustments. He just threw flurries here and there coming straight in, and Mayweather used distance to control the range and landed jabs and lead right hands on Pac throughout the fight.
     
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  8. aaalbert

    aaalbert Boxing Addict Full Member

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    And Pac wasn't aware of this? He did what he had to do and like you said, fight his usual fight to win...
    I don't see a problem with this..
     
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  9. Rdc4444

    Rdc4444 Member Full Member

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    He should have met pac at the center of the ring and fought him like a man! Imagine if Mayweather chose to exchange with pac we could have had a fight like this...

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  10. BoxingIntegrity119715

    BoxingIntegrity119715 Super Full Member

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    Don't make yourself look like an idiotidiot does not u Pac knockout
    Manny comes to fight even though with shoulder injury but floyd a way bigger man with overloaded iv fluid comes to run and hug and floyd's fan call itit sweet science what a moron belief
     
  11. Pimp C

    Pimp C Too Much Motion Full Member

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    Now why in the hell would he fight another man's fight? This is chess not checkers.
     
  12. 22JM

    22JM Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Wrong socks and wrong gloves are my favorite Pacquiao excuses....
     
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  13. PH|LLA

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    Pac too small and too old to beat Floyd. I gave him 4 rounds as did most of the official judges. Prime Pac at a catchweight beats him. Prime Pac at WW even up.
     
  14. N17

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    On what planet, in what universe should this have been a "Hagler Hearns type of fight"?

    I'm actually stunned at that, not often am I stunned on here but to suggest it should have in ANY way been a similar fight to Hagler Vs Hearns is a stunning claim.

    You also say "Mayweathers fought his usual boring style"

    So if Mayweather "fought his usual boring style" then how and why did you expect a Hagler Hearns type of fight?

    And you had to claim the excuse of "Pacquaios shoulder"... no, nope, not having that, he threw his hands, both hands, he just could really lay a glove on a defensive master.

    Watch the fight again and tell me Pacquaio was fighting with one arm..

    No shame in not being good enough to land a glove on Mayweather, Canelo didn't really do it either, just accpet the fact (and it is a fact) that Mayweather was the better man, the better fighter and woj the fight fair and square.


    Pacquaio fans are without doing the most delusional bitter and childish bunch of boxing fans.
     
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  15. N17

    N17 Loyal Member Full Member

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    I know, it's bizarre.

    Even pre fight, the interviews with Freddie Roach.. Roach was saying they had plans to catch Mayweather, they had a style to beat him.

    They said they knew EXACTLY what Mayweather was going to do, they knew EXACTLY what they had to do.

    They failed, Pacquaio failed and then and now Pacquaio fans want to make every excuse in the book and some new ones.

    It's just so depressing that all this time later they still can't get over it.
     
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