Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao in a historical perspective

[likeamulekick]

Mayweather vs pacquiao scorecards

Mayweather won this fight but watching the fight a second time without the anticipation and hope for some aggression, it was a lot closer than I thought the first time. People forgot that pacquiao was doing well defensively, moving his head and blocking the rare big right hands that mayweather threw. Have you ever seen a mayweather fight that maweather did less offence in than this fight? Manny dint get dominated in this fight, mayweather is brilliant at making the hard shots you did land look like glancing blows and he moves forward to erase that punch from the judges minds and paws out his jab and shows great movement without actually landing anthing big, to look as if hes dominating but all hes doing is being great defensively. Im still scoring the fight because I want to rewatch it in hd because there are encounters where mayweather got hit. By 6 rounds it was either drawing or manny up by 1 point, mayweather won the second half but any close rounds at the end could of gone either way especially because mayweather ran the last round. Still think mayweather won but definitely not as lopsided as the judges scorecards. What are peoples scorecards and would anyone watch a rematch? Mayweather would probably do better in a rematch but if there is any truth in mannys shoulder which im not sure about, could be a different fight and possibly more entertaining?

[rightsideup]

Just heard on the radio that Manny is getting sued for not disclosing his injury

[Bald Shavers]

As all of us know, Floyd - because of excessive holding and constant running - has been singlehandedly blamed by the boxing and general public for the boringness of the so-called "Fight of the Century" during which he managed to lose 4 rounds to a smaller man (5 inch reach disadvantage, 2 inch height disadvantage) who medical verification has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt...

was fighting with only one arm.

Now, Mayweather is trying to re-write history by manipulating public perception via the deceptive act of bogusly blaming Pacquiao for making the fight a boring dud. Specifically, he keeps blaming Pac's not being honest about his injury pre-fight for the reason for the fight's boringness.

THINK. The problem is: The more Mayweather blames Pacquiao's shoulder injury for the fight's boringness the more he admits that he indeed beat a one armed fighter, hence tainting and...

making meaningless his (Floyd Mayweather's) so-called "win."

Besides accepting a rematch offer from Pacquiao, how the hell can can Floyd Mayweather get out of the no win situation that has resulted in his having "beaten" a one armed man with a 5 inch reach disadvantage who he waited to fight 5 years too late?

Is Mayweather's win really tarnished forever? Does it even count now that it will forever be remembered that he so-called "beat" a one armed man?

[Scott9945]

As all of us know, Floyd - because of excessive holding and constant running - has been singlehandedly blamed by the boxing and general public for the boringness of the so-called "Fight of the Century" during which he managed to lose 4 rounds to a smaller man (5 inch reach disadvantage, 2 inch height disadvantage) who medical verification has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt...

was fighting with only one arm.

Now, Mayweather is trying to re-write history by manipulating public perception via the deceptive act of bogusly blaming Pacquiao for making the fight a boring dud. Specifically, he keeps blaming Pac's not being honest about his injury pre-fight for the reason for the fight's boringness.

THINK. The problem is: The more Mayweather blames Pacquiao's shoulder injury for the fight's boringness the more he admits that he indeed beat a one armed fighter, hence tainting and...

making meaningless his (Floyd Mayweather's) so-called "win."

Besides accepting a rematch offer from Pacquiao, how the hell can can Floyd Mayweather get out of the no win situation that has resulted in his having "beaten" a one armed man with a 5 inch reach disadvantage who he waited to fight 5 years too late?

Is Mayweather's win really tarnished forever? Does it even count now that it will forever be remembered that he so-called "beat" a one armed man?

I'm for Pacquaio over Mayweather everyday of the week. But this is just pathetic. Any tarnishing from this fight falls on Pacquiao for not disclosing an injury and/or putting up a weak effort against Floyd.

[El Jesus]

As all of us know, Floyd - because of excessive holding and constant running - has been singlehandedly blamed by the boxing and general public for the boringness of the so-called "Fight of the Century" during which he managed to lose 4 rounds to a smaller man (5 inch reach disadvantage, 2 inch height disadvantage) who medical verification has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt...

was fighting with only one arm.

Now, Mayweather is trying to re-write history by manipulating public perception via the deceptive act of bogusly blaming Pacquiao for making the fight a boring dud. Specifically, he keeps blaming Pac's not being honest about his injury pre-fight for the reason for the fight's boringness.

THINK. The problem is: The more Mayweather blames Pacquiao's shoulder injury for the fight's boringness the more he admits that he indeed beat a one armed fighter, hence tainting and...

making meaningless his (Floyd Mayweather's) so-called "win."

Besides accepting a rematch offer from Pacquiao, how the hell can can Floyd Mayweather get out of the no win situation that has resulted in his having "beaten" a one armed man with a 5 inch reach disadvantage who he waited to fight 5 years too late?

Is Mayweather's win really tarnished forever? Does it even count now that it will forever be remembered that he so-called "beat" a one armed man?

How can you make this comment with a straight face. I expect better from the history section, this is NSB level ignorance

[rockybone]

It well be remembere as the start of a poor era in boxing

[Suckmedry]

The estimation for the PPV numbers and total profits of this fight is absolutely staggering. If they are right about the 5 to 6 million PPV buys and 500-700+ million profits, there might never be another fight this big ever again. It's amazing and I'm so proud of the sport of Boxing regardless of how the fight didn't live up to the hype. For this reason alone it will be an immortalized moment in the sport's history.

but thats exactly what was wrong with this fight. endless and unbelievable hype, boxing in the public eye like it hasn't been since at least the mid 90s if not the 70s/80s, hundreds of millions on the line...and we get an okay, somewhat competitive fight where the action never really broke out, with two guys who didn't really want it that badly. Sure they were trying to win, but not the balls on the line effort expected of two ATGs in a super fight. And Manny got discouraged (especially as i think floyds power surprised him- a common theme in mayweather fights) and really let Floyd run away with it.

Manny should have thrown everything at Floyd and tried to go for the knockout. Even if it left himself lying on the canvas. Easier said than done i know, but he owed it to the fans but most importantly to himself, to actually try and win this fight.

[Hype job]

Because he schooled an ATG who was P4P #2 in the world.

Schooled! What an absolute load of rubbish!

Utterly embarrassing that you deem this a schooling!

Utterly embarrassing!

[Hype job]

Come on, man lol. Seriously?

He is correct!

You can't continue to just brush of facts like they're nothing!

Pac's punches were harder and cleaner, and did more damage!

These are the facts!

[Scott9945]

He is correct!

You can't continue to just brush of facts like they're nothing!

Pac's punches were harder and cleaner, and did more damage!

These are the facts!

My idea of a fact is that Mayweather clearly outboxed Pacquiao for the majority of rounds. And what damage did Pacquiao's punches supposedly do?