By Edward Chaykovsky
WBC/WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. has turned back 45 opponents in 47 fights. He risks his undefeated record on May 2nd against his career rival, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
If Mayweather is defeated by Pacquiao, and then loses that undefeated record, some wonder if he's capable of bouncing back.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes Pacquiao, sees Mayweather as potentially becoming more marketable, with an increase of fans, if he loses on May 2.
Arum said to Mlive.com - "I think it will make him more human and maybe increase his marketability and popularity. I always thought that idea -- now, you don't want to lose -- but the fact that he would lose was not the death kind of thing that he thought it was, that he thinks it is. I mean, all the great ones lost."
Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, has a different view on the topic.
"His whole identity is that zero," Roach said. "He's still a great fighter if he loses, but people will look at him completely different, and especially at his age, I don't know how he would come back from that."
