Pacquiao could beat Mayweather

Good what about you?:good

 

im good fam....see the haters still hating...

 

This is an interesting article:
It seems that the current catchweight phenomena can easily be traced to Manny Pacquiao’s one sided drubbing of Oscar De La Hoya in December 2008. Though this fight did not take place at a so-called catchweight, De La Hoya was required to drain from the junior middleweight limit of 154 where he has campaigned for many years, and down to the welterweight limit of 147 to face Pacquiao who moved up from lightweight to take the challenge. Oscar, to his detriment, would weigh in at 145 lbs and suffer the worse and perhaps final loss of his storied career. Following this victory, Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach, feeling like a genius, decided that catchweights would be their way of gaining an advantage over the bigger and more popular welterweight titlists who represent big money opportunities for his fighter. Not to be undone, Pacquiao’s arch rival Juan Manuel Marquez, clearly wanting to make his own statement at welterweight, used the catchweight theory in an effort to outflank Floyd Mayweather Jr., who prior to retiring from the sport was universally regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in boxing.

Mayweather, long considered a small welterweight who could easily make the catchweight agreement of 144, shocked the boxing world when he weighed in this past weekend at 146. Typically when a fighter fails to make weight they will be given an opportunity to burn off the extra pounds and step on the scales again. Mayweather, unexpectedly, opted to take a financial penalty rather than lose a few pounds. As a result, he weighed in as a true welterweight and fought as a true welterweight. In what looks like pure arrogance and stacking the deck against Marquez perhaps Mayweather by chance has made a powerful statement regarding catchweights; Catchweights are not a weight class! In retrospect, it is possible that his blunder may have a lasting impact on the sport. It would come as no surprise if more fighters expected to make catchweights simply opts to take a financial hit rather than risk a meltdown like that suffered by Oscar De La Hoya.

Mayweather’s failure to make weight will almost certainly affect the upcoming Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto fight. Like Mayweather-Marquez, this fight is also based on a catchweight. Cotto is expected to have an even tougher time making the agreed weight of 145. If Mayweather can ignore the catchweight then surely Cotto can as well. In fact it may be wise for Cotto to come in at 147 considering he is a naturally big welterweight who has often been stunned and hurt when fighting in a lighter division. Why help Pacquiao defeat you by coming in dehydrated and weak? In my opinion, if a fighter can not handle welterweight, then do not fight in the division. The limit is 147 and there is no need to change, augment, or ignore this fact. After all, in addition to the traditional weight divisions in boxing there is also “junior” and “super” weight classes placed in between. Certainly Marquez and Pacquiao could find great fights at 140, junior middleweight titlists Tim Bradley and Devon Alexander would love a shot at either of them.

How can the boxing community find fault with a welterweight weighing in as a welterweight? Neither Mayweather nor Cotto required the aid of catchweights as they moved up and contrary to what Freddie Roach may think, catchweights are not slick, smart, or genius; in reality it is a sign of weakness. Fighters looking for a challenge at higher weights should enter divisions just as fighters did in the past, with dignity. There is no greater honor than beating a world class fighter at his best, not his dehydrated worse.

 

:roflI pray to God that dont happen ..Cotto taking a dive ..Cotto is playing spoiler ..Wait and see ..

 

MAyweather and JMM are counter punchers . JMM looks a certain way agasint Pac because Pac is aggresive and JMM is looking to counter. But he will stand his ground .



Mayweather looks a certain way agasint agressive fighters too. He always wants to get away from the pressure and he will throw counters in a nervous kind of way. You will see him landing on top of peoples' head ( which is not wise if you want to keep your hands in- tact)

But I find that to be a case with alot of counter puchers that use their feet. they score the best countering but will seem so hurried they thorw and land the punch hastily. After the fight; ends up talking about how they would have liked to stop their opponent but hurt their hand.

 

its a good theory...arum is a snake...he was quoted as syaing that he does not think pac will fight floyd cuz pac wants one more fight at ww b4 running for mayor...so all he is saying is that pac does not want to take an L b4 running for congress in the phillippines...he said floyd would be hard to negotiate with....

 

I thik PAc can beat Mayweather if he can succsfully take the Leonard - Mayweather fight as fodder and take this approach.

 

and that one fight would be the precursor to maybe a floyd fight depending on the outcome of his run

 

pac has no chance...no matter how u look at it...floyd would be too big and his ring intelligence is impeccable...only way floyd might lose is going below the 147 limit to fight him

 

I can't believe some people are lowering Pacs chances based on the JMM fight.

Laughable.

 

Pac's strong showing against common opponets like Hatton and dela Hoya proves that he is competitive and he can beat Floyd. Pac is the underdog here, though.

 

strong showing against a c-class fighter and zombie.....that is not a strong showing

 

I mean WTF are some of you guys talking. You knew Marquez chances at that weight were slim. Floyd never even had Marquez in trouble despite a kd early on. When they were in the ring you could see how much bigger Floyds back was as well as everything else. He did exactly what was expected. Many were expecting Marquez to turn back the clocks and look more impressive than his last two fights since moving up in weight, but he just couldn't turn back the clocks. Really before this fight the consensus was more or less Pac would ko Marquez above 135. They now have three common opponents and going off those (which I assume is why you guys think Pac has no chance) Pac was definitley overall more impressive.

Their styles are completely different and Floyd has never faced anyone with the speed tenacity and power of a Pacman.

 

I said Pac had no chance befoe the JMM and it's simple to see. The guy can't handle Counter-punchers and he has no jab. But the biggest is that people here on ESB underrate the hell outta defense. And Pac won't be able to deal with that aspect of PBF's game. His workrate and his connect % will drop just ike everyone else who faces PBF does. I've beeen saying this for years but people keep ignoring it thinking there's always someone there that can pull it off. Offense sells tickets but defense wins championships.:deal

 

yes, DELA HOYA and HATTON. and we know what happened.