Brown Fox Posted 21 January 2012 Posted 21 January 2012 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/16515328.stm Please please let this happen. Would be such an incredible fight that would hopefully reinvigorate the boxing world. If it does, my bets on Mayweather. What do we think?
Stevosevic Posted 21 January 2012 Posted 21 January 2012 100% my money will be on 'Money' - superior boxer in my opinion.
Danny the Fox 95 Posted 21 January 2012 Posted 21 January 2012 The Pacman for me! Would be an amazing fight!
Ross 'LCFC' Turner Posted 21 January 2012 Posted 21 January 2012 Would love to see this fight. I would want Pacquiao to win but I think Mayweather will. Pacquiao has government commitments as well and it affects his training camp IMO.
Guest MattP Posted 23 January 2012 Posted 23 January 2012 I'm not even bothered anymore, I flew out to watch Manny fight Cotto and that was when the fight should have happened. Manny was at the peak of his career and Floyd decided to "retire" for 18 months. Floyd never had any intention of fighting Manny until all his wars and other commitments started to catch up with him. Mayweather v Martinez would probably be a better contest now.
Jordan Posted 24 January 2012 Posted 24 January 2012 I honestly thought Mayweather was bluffing with his Twitter challenge and picked a day where he knew they wouldn't be able to arrange the fight, doing it just to try to get people thinking that he really does want to fight Pacquaio.
General Smuts Posted 24 January 2012 Posted 24 January 2012 The fight everyone has wanted for years but Mayweather continues to bottle it. Really hope this happens. Pacman all day for me.
FantasicMrFox Posted 24 January 2012 Posted 24 January 2012 Mayweather will wipe the floor with Pac-man, as much as I would love to see Mayweather taste defeat, he is without the greatest boxer of his generation. I will acknowledge that he cherry picks his opponents, this has led to a serious lack of challenge that has stood in Mayweathers way, apart from a few names, Mayweather has never really been tested. One of the many keys in beating Floyd is that he will need to come up against a 'thinker' not a brawler, not a swarmer, not a conventional, not un-conventional, it doesnt matter who it is because Mayweather will deal with them. Now imagine a bigger and faster Marquez, he may not of won still, but he is a thinker and he would have played Chess with Floyd, and that's what Mayweather is not used to be dealing with. Put a thinker in there and we may have a fight on our hands, Pacquio is not a thinker, he is one dimensional and Mayweather will make him look stupid. Easy work for Money May I am afraid.
Guest MattP Posted 24 January 2012 Posted 24 January 2012 Mayweather will wipe the floor with Pac-man, as much as I would love to see Mayweather taste defeat, he is without the greatest boxer of his generation. I will acknowledge that he cherry picks his opponents, this has led to a serious lack of challenge that has stood in Mayweathers way, apart from a few names, Mayweather has never really been tested. One of the many keys in beating Floyd is that he will need to come up against a 'thinker' not a brawler, not a swarmer, not a conventional, not un-conventional, it doesnt matter who it is because Mayweather will deal with them. Now imagine a bigger and faster Marquez, he may not of won still, but he is a thinker and he would have played Chess with Floyd, and that's what Mayweather is not used to be dealing with. Put a thinker in there and we may have a fight on our hands, Pacquio is not a thinker, he is one dimensional and Mayweather will make him look stupid. Easy work for Money May I am afraid. I can't disagree more, I've still never met a person who didnt think Castillo didnt beat Mayweather in the first match, even HBO had Castillo by 5 rounds before he got robbed. Castillo had exactly the blueprint to beat him, dont go near the face, just go to body all day long, it doesnt matter how fast you are if that happens you slow down by the 7th8th round and thats when Castillo completely dominated him. Ever since then every referee Floyd has had has been one who doesnt let another remotly get in close with him, Cortez at times has been an embarrassment. The Pacmamn of two years ago would have been a very close fight with Floyd, the prime Oscar De La Hoya at 147 would have been very close to him, the Miguel Cotto of 2007 would have been a great fight, Floyd ducked every single one, he even ducked Mosley until he was 38. Floyd's a great fighter, really is, but he can't be considered on the level of a Duran, Hagler, Hearns, maybe even a prime Vernon Forrest. The way he has cherry picked and ****ed the best has been nothing sort of shocking. How can anyone rank him as this generations greatest fighter???, his resume doesnt come close to Manny Pacquiao, Roy Jones Jnr, James Toney, Marco Barrera or Erik Morales in the last 15 years.
FantasicMrFox Posted 24 January 2012 Posted 24 January 2012 I can't disagree more, I've still never met a person who didnt think Castillo didnt beat Mayweather in the first match, even HBO had Castillo by 5 rounds before he got robbed. Castillo had exactly the blueprint to beat him, dont go near the face, just go to body all day long, it doesnt matter how fast you are if that happens you slow down by the 7th8th round and thats when Castillo completely dominated him. Ever since then every referee Floyd has had has been one who doesnt let another remotly get in close with him, Cortez at times has been an embarrassment. The Pacmamn of two years ago would have been a very close fight with Floyd, the prime Oscar De La Hoya at 147 would have been very close to him, the Miguel Cotto of 2007 would have been a great fight, Floyd ducked every single one, he even ducked Mosley until he was 38. Floyd's a great fighter, really is, but he can't be considered on the level of a Duran, Hagler, Hearns, maybe even a prime Vernon Forrest. The way he has cherry picked and ****ed the best has been nothing sort of shocking. How can anyone rank him as this generations greatest fighter???, his resume doesnt come close to Manny Pacquiao, Roy Jones Jnr, James Toney, Marco Barrera or Erik Morales in the last 15 years. Ok look I really am not gunning for a Mayweather debate with you, I don't mean that in a bad way mate, so take no offense. I do agree with your pointers, and yep the ref's have been a complete joke, the Hatton fight is a prime example. Castillo is very debatable, I have not met anyone who thought Castillo lost either, but read many peoples view on him loosing, many thought he won many though he lost, personally I thought Castillo won the fight. Many many people have scored it differently.Anyway the rematch Mayweather won clearly, in my opinion. I don't think any version of Pac will beat Mayweather, he is the most intelligent boxer I have ever witnessed, he deffo ranks up there, sorry to say. Boxers are merited on may different attributes, I would say he ranks up there as one of the all times greats for his in ring intelligence alone. I agree, beating Mayweather would involve heavly going to the body, but thats my point, you need an intelligent boxer who will figure that sort of thing out. In most of the fights I have watched, Mayweather's opponents manage to land a hit then become all excited and start swinging at him for dear life, apart from the Castillo fight, I can't name any other fighter that can effectivly pressure Mayweather, slow him down through body work and beat him that way, but even then Mayweather wants pressure doesnt he, so he can start the counter punching routine. But look these are opinions, what I say is not set in stone nor fact, just opinion
Guest MattP Posted 24 January 2012 Posted 24 January 2012 Excellent post and I agree we wont get into a FMJ argument. I'm hearing some serious rumours he has selected Eric Morales to fight him on May 5th though. I really hope that's not true.
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