Comments Thread For: The Rewatch, 10 years later: Was Mayweather-Pacquiao really that bad?

[hugh grant]

You’re as dumb as ever.

I never said anything wrong. Before fight floyd said he would go for ko. The fact floyd didn't must show fight didn't go to plan. The fact floyd didn't look like he was trying to ko pac must say pac did something g that disrupted floyds plans

[ShoulderRoll]

pacquiao just wanted an even split.

Floyd agreed to a 50/50 split in 2009.

Pacquiao ran away just because of a little drug testing.

[djtmal]

You’re as dumb as ever.

So are you

[djtmal]

I never said anything wrong. Before fight floyd said he would go for ko. The fact floyd didn't must show fight didn't go to plan. The fact floyd didn't look like he was trying to ko pac must say pac did something g that disrupted floyds plans

Well Manny came to fight

Floyd came to run and hug his way into the judges heart

This must be a Floyd boy feel good thread

[TheProudLunatic]

This must be a Floyd boy feel good thread

Pac Bois don't have the courage to start a feel good Pac thread.

Cowards that they are

[Coverdale]

Well Manny came to fight

Floyd came to run and hug his way into the judges heart

This must be a Floyd boy feel good thread

Floyd used the style he knew would get him the decision in his home city with an American referee. We're supposed to believe that using his 'defensive' style is the superior way to box, but what if everyone fought that way? It's just one of many pro-US fighter canards which gets thrown around without thought.

It was a close fight which posed more questions than answers. I think billeau2 said it best with the quote below:

Here is my take: In boxing fights become truth machines... P o r n stars often speak of learning how to "perform" in front of an audience, but a fight is no mere performance, no mere mechanical act... Fights tell us about the fighters and that which esteems a great champion can just as quickly diminish him. Just ask Roberto Duran when he fought Leonard.

We can fault both men, or neither man, for not meeting until after the best of their work had been done, but alas when a fight was agreed upon, it became a chance for redeeming this unfortunate historical fact. It also became a chance to see if either man was willing to risk bragging rights to truly make an effort and to risk a loss. Or? was the fight simply a money grab? a glorified sparring match that would simply let each great fighter leave the ring legacy in tact? Legacy is a strange thing though. When you turn on that truth machine in the boxing ring, can it truly be said to be left intact, if nothing was ventured, nothing was gained?

The fight between these two was nothing. Neither man was willing to risk enough to win. The decision could have gone either way, nobody showed any ability to effect the other in the ring. It was a big rip off that showed how legacy is not truly respected, and a way to allow both men the right to say they had fought.

You can fool boxing fans with alphabet soup... even getting ignorant fans to assert how the lineal is not needed. But there are still real fans that understand what a champion is, and how the plural case, in each weight class does not apply to the "champion" because there is no such thing as "champions." Mayweather versus Pac was in fact a lineal type affair, it was supposed to be "the man who beats the best is the best." What we got was an exhibition in how to use double talk and judges to avoid such a confrontation.

[djtmal]

Floyd used the style he knew would get him the decision in his home city with an American referee. We're supposed to believe that using his 'defensive' style is the superior way to box, but what if everyone fought that way? It's just one of many pro-US fighter canards which gets thrown around without thought.

It was a close fight which posed more questions than answers. I think billeau2 said it best with the quote below:

I concur.

I give the slight edge to Manny because he at least was pressing the action.

It was Manny punches his way in, Floyd grabs on, waits for his appointed ref to separate. Wash, rinse, repeat. No combinations no neck snapping shots, just run and grab.

I didn't see a boxing masterclass. I saw a guy running and looking to survive until the final bell so he could cash his check.

[TMLT87]

Considering it came after a ridiculously long build up that had basically carried boxings popularity for years, yeah it was pretty bad.

[Madison]

it was boring, mayweather won by nicking rounds but neither of them really landed anything that great from memory, neither looked like they had been in a fight

[hugh grant]

Well Manny came to fight

Floyd came to run and hug his way into the judges heart

This must be a Floyd boy feel good thread

Yeh, its unlikely Floyd would go for a ko, when he knows the judges are in the bag ready to give him his gift win.