By Edward Chaykovsky

Former WBO lightweight champion Terence Crawford is picking WBA/WBC welterweight, junior middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. to beat Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Although Crawford and Pacquiao are stablemates under Top Rank, he feels the Filipino star's style is going to play right into Mayweather's hands. Pacquiao has had issues in all four fights with the counter-punching style of Juan Manuel Marquez. Mayweather is considered to be the best counter-puncher in boxing.

"I  feel that Mayweather is going to have the edge in this fight - because I feel like his jab and his straight punches down the pipe are going to frustrate Pacquiao. Pacquiao is going to come in jumping with a lot of flurry like punches and Floyd is just going to time him and catch him coming in," Crawford told On The Ropes Boxing Radio .

Crawford is not sure if the fight would have played out the same way or differently - if the showdown would happened five or six years ago when the negotiations first began.

"Maybe because both of them were more in their primes. Both of them slowed down a little bit I feel like. If they would have fought five years ago or four years ago, who knows how the fight would have played out," Crawford said.