The career path of a PFP number 1

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  1. Ceej1979

    Ceej1979 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    1: Risk your ass until you're about 26 for peanuts

    2: Get ducked a lot

    3: Get to 27 and realize you don't have any money

    4: Move up the weight classes, chasing the cash

    5: Fight a few big names

    6: Set your sights on the ultimate pay day, and decide you're not going to risk your ass on fighting anyone but them

    7: Take low risk, high reward bouts, until the big pay day comes around. Don't risk ruining it by taking on tough divisional guys

    8: Pay day comes, and you don't care if you lose, as you're on the way out, and have $50 million from the bout



    You know, Floyd did all that with De la Hoya. He was the guy he was hanging on for.

    Isn't Mayweather, Pacquiao's "De la Hoya"? The guy he's treading water for.

    Their career paths, are eerily similar
     
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  2. HitBattousai

    HitBattousai Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Except Pacquiao's standards of competition are a lot higher, both earlier in his career and now, and Pacquiao's version of "hanging on" is still making big fights. The Mexican trio is better competition than anyone Floyd has faced period, and after the Mosley fight Pacquiao will have fought and beaten Cotto, Clottey, Margarito, and Mosley consecutively in the span of basically a year and a half, most of the best Welterweights other than Floyd over the past five years or so, names Floyd has been accused of avoiding. Floyd in all this time at Welterweight has fought all of one of the names above. And instead of trying to bolster his resume to match Pacquiao even if that fight can't be made, Floyd is on vacation. Tells you all you need to know about the difference between the two.
     
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  3. Uncle Rico

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    True that.
     
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  4. el mosquito

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    not true. pac was already the cash cow everyone was running after at 130lbs. he's not saving himself for a floyd fight. that wasn't even thinkable two year ago not even by his own team. the floyd fight landed on pac's lap by his sheer dominance of welterweights that floyd didn't fight. They are on equal terms regarding the fight and pac could retire now with an ATG status that floyd could only dream of
     
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  5. Ceej1979

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    Come on man. That's just not logical of factual at all.

    Just fan bias.

    The only elite competition Pacquiao faced at 130 was Barrera 1, Morales 1 and Marquez

    And he lost, arguably 3 of those 4 fights.

    Mayweather beat Hernandez, Coralles, and Castillo at the low weights.

    That's equal to the Morales and Marquez Pacquiao faced
     
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  6. falcom

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    floyd is number 1.....chicken ****...lol
     
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  7. Ceej1979

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    It's not logically true.

    It's true, if you're a Pacquiao fan

    How was Morales 2, or Barrera 2 a tougher fight that Castillo or Coralles!?

    Coralles was PFP number 2 when Mayweather fought him
     
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  8. Ceej1979

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    Can you guys switch your brain from "fantasy world" to "real world".

    Pacquiao moved up weight to chase money. And the Mayweather bout has been on ever since he left 130.
     
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  9. Uncle Rico

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  10. Ceej1979

    Ceej1979 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    As in, can I demonstrate how you live in a fantasy world

    Manny has been negotiating with Mayweather since 2009. As in,, in serious talks

    The only opponents he'd beaten above 130 at that time were Diaz, Hatton and Oscar

    How's that dominating 147!?
     
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  11. El Indio

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    Only on your list.

    I think the highest he ever got was to number three.
     
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  12. Ceej1979

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    Point 1, you're right.

    Point 2, I know about boxing. You know about "names"

    If you're trying to argue Morales (when Manny faced him)was a tougher opponent at 130 than Coralled then you're an idiot, who knows nothing about the sport
     
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  13. Ceej1979

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    He was PFP 2 when Mayweather fought him
     
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  14. El Indio

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    In what list was he ranked number 2?

    It wasnt the Ring that im sure of.
     
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  15. Ceej1979

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    Let's deal with the other fantasy elements

    "Manny deals with guys Floyd avoided"

    Margarito and Cotto were the hungry young 147 opponents, who wanted Mayweather, offering no money.

    Manny's only facing them as they're legit, old, craggy, names now

    Manny's ducking the hungry young, 147 names, in exactly the same way
     
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