By Edward Chaykovsky
Floyd Mayweather Sr., father and trainer of WBC/WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., says Manny Pacquiao might take such a beating on May 2nd that we might see him take a voluntary knee and quit the fight. Pacquiao will stake his WBO welterweight title in the richest fight in boxing history at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
"I ain't gonna just speak on what I think it's gonna be, I'm just gonna say that some things that, more than likely he gonna get hit with, some real good things. Some good things, and, you know, and he might retreat. When I say retreat - he might take a knee. And then say - 'don't want no more.' Over," Mayweather Sr. told Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub.
Mayweather Sr. is still looking at Pacquiao's struggles against Juan Manuel Marquez. In all four fight, Pacquiao was taken to his limit. Their fourth meeting, in 2012, ended with Marquez knocking him out cold in six. Meanwhile, Mayweather dominated Marquez over twelve easy rounds in 2009.
"I don't see nothing that Pacquiao got. Matter of fact, all the fights he fought with Marquez, all them was close fights. Floyd beat that guy so easy, man. It's crazy. I just don't see the fight. I can see him running into so many things. I know what Floyd do, so, hey, I'm pretty sure he's gonna do what Floyd want him to do," Mayweather Sr. said.
Besides the big right hand, Floyd Sr. says Pacquiao is going take some vicious body punishment.
"He dropped one guy one day, hit him to the body. Whatever he hits Pacquiao with, we plan on doing great bodily harm. Definitely some real damage," Mayweather Sr. said.