Manny Pacquiao: Today on ESPN First Take (Video)

Canelo seemed to be bothered by Floyd's punches. Floyd has enough pop to have fighters think twice. I do believe this but you have to KO Manny to stop him. This will be a very interesting fight.

Steven A. Smith is sucha nuthugger. But this is the kind of buildup that has been missing for this fight. Pacman wins.

Canelo seemed to be bothered by Floyd's punches. Floyd has enough pop to have fighters think twice.

In the build up of almost every recent Mayweather fight since Oscar, I keep hearing the myth of Mayweather's power but when was his last truly clean KO? Ortiz? gtfo. Hatton? Man was done and too small. Who else? How many truly great fighters has Mayweather stopped? lol. Pacquiao has nothing to worry about in terms of power. Mayweather has the power to stop people walking through him shown that KO power? no but he must have some pop.

I almost feel like it's a defense mechanism for Floyd fans, it's honestly ridiculous. Nothing over the last ten years suggests he will ko manny. In the build up of almost every recent Mayweather fight since Oscar, I keep hearing the myth of Mayweather's power but when was his last truly clean KO? Ortiz? gtfo. Hatton? Man was done and too small. Who else? How many truly great fighters has Mayweather stopped? lol. Pacquiao has nothing to worry about in terms of power.

Mayweather's eyebrow was flashing against his will. He was trying to act like he wasn't bothered, he clearly was. Pac was smiling calm, Floyd was consciously trying to look calm and cool. He knows all the pressure is on him, Pac is the underdog, been knocked out, the perception is that Floyd has been ducking... if he loses people's accusations that he cherrypicked etc will be vindicated. Interestingly also he had a line put up that they couldn't cross (look at their feet at the press conference) he didn't wanna be too close to him.

He didn't think Marquez could do what he did either ... None of us did. If he goes into this with that attitude he's gonna get hurt. Marpeds took a severe beating and was on his way out. It took Marpeds 4 fights and memo juice to do that. When Mayweather gets attacked by fast combos he tends to move out or turtle shell sometime. Floyd is more of a pop shot type. With the occasional counter.

Wtf?! Why are people overrating Mays power? Dude hasn't had a single knock out since Ortiz. I almost feel like it's a defense mechanism for Floyd fans, it's honestly ridiculous. Nothing over the last ten years suggests he will ko manny.

Wtf?! Why are people overrating Mays power? Dude hasn't had a single knock out since Ortiz. And that "KO" doesn't even count.

Wtf?! Why are people overrating Mays power? Dude hasn't had a single knock out since Ortiz.

Yeah, Smith doesn't realize how damn disrespectful it is to openly laugh about a guy getting brutally KTFO, when the guy was a fuggin guest on your show for God's sake. Smith has no tact whatsoever, unless it comes to issues that he's fighting for. The guy is class A clown. God forbid Lebron James tore his ACL. He'd be on that show crying, and telling people to stop being so "DISRESPECTUFL!", like he always likes to say, but the guy's sitting there making fun of a guy that's been nothing but kind, and playful with him on that show, and has the nerve to mock him, and laugh about it. Really??? Bayless is pretty much the same. I agree, they both are. Smith was mocking Guerrero for losing to Thurman and he put up a hell of a fight. When Floyd-Pac was finally signed I thought they were going to give some educated breakdowns of the fight and all it was about was Skip mocking Floyd and Stephen mocking Pac. I mean the fight everyone's been waiting to see is finally signed and you're disrespecting the fighters like some 5 year olds. Its painful to watch sometimes.

Smith sounds like an idiot. When he's calm, and speaks somewhat normally (somewhat normally is the best he can do), the dude can be really insightful. But when he gets into these zones where all he does is f**king scream and repeat the same sh*t over and over -- it's just unwatchable.

My goodness we need more of these! Yes we know they fight doesn't need more hype because it sells itself. But good gracious can't we boxing fans get more fun out of something like this, build it up for the fans. There are other ways to hype it without shelving more money like this. There are entities out there that would interview them for free for goodness sake. Do it for the fans! more of these please, just for fun! My thoughts exactly, ButtScratcher. This will draw even more interest in the fight. Manny should up the trash talking even if it's in jest. He could say "I'm going to hit him so hard his ancestors will feel it" or something to that effect. More viewers will gravitate to these interviews. Floyd can sell a fight if the spitlight shines on him. But with an opponent who also does some trash talking, things get more interesting. Guess everybody's already seen what happened to trash talkers who face Floyd in the ring and prefer to tone it down for fear of embarrassment.

Mayweather is afraid of losing. Not sure he's afraid of Pac or anyone in general though. Mayweather loves to win. Big difference.

My goodness we need more of these! Yes we know they fight doesn't need more hype because it sells itself. But good gracious can't we boxing fans get more fun out of something like this, build it up for the fans. There are other ways to hype it without shelving more money like this. There are entities out there that would interview them for free for goodness sake. Do it for the fans! more of these please, just for fun!

Funny stuff!

Mayweather is afraid of losing. Not sure he's afraid of Pac or anyone in general though. Yeah many get this confused of course Mayweather is not physically scared of any boxer, but he has made comments that has shown fear in losing his zero. Anyway funny interview.

Wasn't gonna watch this because these 2 guys tire me out! But man, did Manny ever work up Stephen Smith! So beating Floyd is good for boxing because being undefeated has gotten to his head. Fair enough. But it looks like Manny was in a mood to say anything to drive Stephen A Smith batty!

He didn't think Marquez could do what he did either ... None of us did. If he goes into this with that attitude he's gonna get hurt. floyd doesnt take that type of risk when setting up counters. if floyd couldn't hurt a fat pre - steriods jmm, I'm pretty sure he's not going to hurt manny. i don't know where ppl get that tough chinned warriors respect mayweathers power, when DLH,Guerrero, Castillo, and maidana kept coming after and took all his shots. dude just moved a lot more after he realized he wasn't hurting them.

He didn't think Marquez could do what he did either ... None of us did. If he goes into this with that attitude he's gonna get hurt. He alr3ady said this is the biggest challenge in his carrer which in no way contradicting to what he just said now in the vid.......floyds best punch is not more damaging than dlh/cotto/margo best punches, obviously a common knowledge