By Edward Chaykovsky
Former two-time middleweight champion Daniel Geale watched the recent mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. There was overwhelming hype about the contest and many expected an exciting war. A war it was not. Mayweather used his boxing skills and defense to win a twelve round unanimous decision at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Geale did not expect a war. He expected the scenario which played out, with Mayweather doing what he does best to win the contest.
The Australian star has his won big fight lined up in the coming weeks, when he returns on June 6th to fight WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto.
"Yeah, I did watch it, I watched it very closely. I actually thought it was a pretty good fight. A lot of people were disappointed that it wasn’t what they expected but to be honest, I’ve seen Mayweather fight many times and it was basically what I expected it to be. He’s extremely fast, extremely skillful, extremely hard to hit," Geale told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.
"Mayweather did everything that he needed to against Pacquiao, he made it a more boring sort of fight but it was the Mayweather that I’ve been used to and that I expected. I also expected that at some stage Pacquiao could hurt Mayweather, because he does have incredible power and he throws many punches. I think that moment was Pacquiao’s moment and he couldn’t land the next punch. It was pretty much exactly what I expected. It was just pure class and skill from Mayweather and I enjoyed it."
