When did Floyd start to fear Manny Pacquiao?

If Mayweather fears Pacquiao, it must have started on the day of this interview.......

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.....before then, Mayweather was negotiating in good faith to have the fight happen.

 

too high to read 5 pages...probably after cotto. or maybe he's not scared, just smart and earning as much money as possible before his legacy/retirement fight

 

Calling a boxer a coward and being disrespectful are two different things. Ask anyone who's been in the ring and they'll tell you that. I might say the guy is slow as hell and a limited plodder that's being critical of their skillset but I don't call them a coward because regardless of what I think of them as a person or their skillset the guy isn't a coward period that's pure hate. The problem is most of these PBF haters hate the man personally so much they can't separate their hate from being critical of a fighter and that's the difference. And calling a boxer who's had 41 pro fights a coward is a prime example of it.:deal

 

roger before pac-cotto

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after the fight! a-side meth baby!!!

 

So, you actually believe that Pac's on PED? I can't believe a good poster like will fall into the Mayweather family's lies and fabrications. Is it because of your lingering hate on Pac's beating your boy, JMM? Stop it, boi.

 

Donaire>Montiel

Marquez>Pacquiao

I understand the heartache!:yep:deal

 

floyd said back in 2008 that he'll wait for manny. see this ****er was looking into fighter a much smaller guy back then when 147 was stacked with good fighters. floyd was just waiting. now that manny has successfully come up in weight, he is nowhere to be found. hilarious turn of events :yep right off the bat floyd was scouring the lower weights for big names.

 

My opinion has nothing to do with Mayweather.


I dont see anything in this here failed interview where Mayweather is putting words into Pacquiao's mouth......
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I agree with alot of what you're saying......

.....imo Mayweather's shoulder roll defense and potshot low rate activity does'nt lend itself to match up well against a taller skilled opponents with physical advantages like Paul Williams, nor does it lend itself to look great vs a high activitiy, big and large bruiser like Margarito........

.......which is why Mayweather likely went into retirement and waited out for fighters he'd match up better against.


From how I'm reading it, the reason Mayweather came back to fight Marquez was to get at Pacquiao......
.......but once Mayweather saw the ease in which Pacquiao physically manhandled a very good fighter in Cotto......I think that performance by Pacquiao convinced Mayweather that Pacquiao is not a clean fighter.


I would imagine that Mayweather seeing the many holes in Pacquiao's defense, that he could still handle him fairly easily........

But also of the Mayweather mindset must have been, if this guy is operating under the influence of PED, he's going to have a cardiovascular advantage over me.......
......this guy is going to come at me from all angles, and I'm going to be slipping and sliding and making him miss.......
....."but will Pacquiao if under the influence of PED's tire as every one of my opponents have?"......is something that would likely enter Mayweather's mind.


To ensure fairness, Mayweather asked Pacquiao to go through more extensive testing......a testing he himself would submit to as well.......


.....we got this answer from Pacquiao......
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.....and along with it Mayweather's suspicion that Pacquiao was a PED user was confirmed.

 

a lot of joyboys will not agree with you on that as they can not see it. jmm was just a tool to leverage an envisioned fight back before pac faced hatton.

i have no problem with improving testing for the sport of boxing. however, you forgot the part where the mayweathers decided to dirty up pac's name first in the media instead of silently working things out through negotiations. pac obviously got offended as he initially wanted to file a case against the mayweathers. it's a lot easier for us to scrutinize these people because we are not in that situation.

i truly believe that if the mayweathers asked for the osdt silently in the negotiations without damaging pac's pride first, they would have gotten through that request. now, pride comes into play. it's a special requirement, why would you completely concede to a guy who's fouled you up. there's been bs on both camps, all the lies and ****. people are just picking up the things they want to listen to that suits their agenda and biases.

 

they truly believe he's on some stuff that made phillipino soldiers 'bulletproof'... that should say enough about the mayweathers

 

After the Hatton fight.

 

Whats highlighted is exactly what Floyd Mayweather Jr. did.........

The early to mid part of the first negotiations ran smoothly, in fact it was being reported that the fight all of boxing was waiting for was very close to being made, some news agencies even went as far as reporting that the fight had been made and that only the i's had to be dotted and the t's crossed........

......then we got news the negotiations had hit a snag.....Mayweather was requesting additional drug testing which btw was on the Mayweather's demands from day one....... and Pacquiao who was hoping that Mayweather would relent on that demand in exchange for him relenting on one of his, was'nt willing to go through with the full random testing.......

....in fact a few days before this was reported, it had leaked out to the press that Mayweather was requesting these additional test, thats when Roach went public laughing and stating, "Manny is clean, he'll pass any test they throw at us, no problem."

......what we hear next is a garbage truck full of excuses on why Manny cant go through with the testing as outlined by Mayweather.......of which included, "it makes me weak, afraid of needles, blah blah blah up to this.....
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.......and so its how it happened......the stipulation by Mayweather that Pacquiao undergo testing was'nt even made public until it had to be explained to the media why the fight had fallen throught and was'nt happening.

I doubt even the most dumb *******s around here will dispute that.

 

10 years ago they both fought on the same card in a co-main event....probably then