If you were Freddy Roach, what gameplan would you give Pac against Mayweather?

[bojangles1987]

The absolute last thing Roach should do to prepare Pac for Mayweather is try to change how he fights. Pacquiao should just do what he does best, which is use great side to side movement and throw combos, which would keep the pressure on Mayweather to keep up. If it works, it works, if not, well there you have it.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Bring a pistol to the ring??

[peekabooboxing]

the right cross is the punch that he cant get away from
and its the punch to knock him out

[game20ver]

Bring a pistol to the ring??

LOL...But Pacquiao won't be able to pull the trigger! Then what the haters going to say about that? He's a shot fighter, he gassed out early, he's too small, he was injured, the ref didn't let him fight his fight, the ref stopped it too early, GBP screwed him, he's blood drained, the testing disrupted his camp, he's a congressman he wasn't focused, Floyd ducked him for 2 years this don't count, Floyd's a cheater. Waahhh

[-GDS-]

The absolute last thing Roach should do to prepare Pac for Mayweather is try to change how he fights. Pacquiao should just do what he does best, which is use great side to side movement and throw combos, which would keep the pressure on Mayweather to keep up. If it works, it works, if not, well there you have it.

Agree. Can't teach an old dog new tricks. At certain points, May might try to go on the offensive, and Pac can't allow that. He'd lose for sure. I think it may be harder for Pac to assert himself then people think. Only thing he can really do is apply pressure until someone breaks. He isn't outboxing May.

[chris123jack]

Agree. Can't teach an old dog new tricks. At certain points, May might try to go on the offensive, and Pac can't allow that. He'd lose for sure. I think it may be harder for Pac to assert himself then people think. Only thing he can really do is apply pressure until someone breaks. He isn't outboxing May.

I totally agree if mayweather fights instead of box manny has a better chance but will take a hell of beating. If he tries to assert himself or catches mayweather with a hard shot, I will be worried about pacquiao. If you watch the mosley fight after floyd got hit it was serious business after that no playing around no smile on his face. If you watched the hbo fight lampley was like in the corner floyd looked embarrassed after the second round, and when floyd is in his "money may" character nobody has a bigger ego than him, so I knew it was time to get down to business. This is the first time in his past couple of fights that when floyd threw punches that you can see on his face that they were threw with the intent to hurt not just tag shane. And no one can make me believe that shane stopped throwing because he was tired, he underestimated floyd's power and after getting hit flush a couple of times he knew better than to just let his hands go. And finally, the reason floyd's chin is so good is because his neck is so strong, everyone has seen him building his neck muscles on 24/7. If you watch the first punch, which is really a knock out punch, floyd's whole upperbody moves to the side instead of just his head, but if you see some of the punches mosley took it looked like he could of got whiplash.

Now on to the actual topic of the post:
I would make sure to tell pacquiao to block out the break because as soon as the ref steps away floyd will throw a punch. I would tell him not to try and fight on the inside with mayweather because he is too good at creating a space big enough for him to through his short hooks but to small for the other person to throw a meaningful punch. Plus floyd is too strong to try to fight on the inside I've seen him create just enough space sparring with a heavyweight I'm pretty sure he can do it with ease on pac. I would try to teach pac to block the left hook like ****m did shane atleast take one punch away. I would try to prepare him for the body punishment he going to endur. Because unless he is in his fighting mode he punishes your body the whole fight, especially on the inside. And last I would try to tell him not to underestimate floyd's power even though I cant see pac taking him serious until he gets hit by floyd, there are too many people that say floyd has feather punches but when you talk to fighters after they have fought him they will tell you a different story.

[GOAT86]

It can't be done. :****you:

[Pacquiao'd]

I totally agree if mayweather fights instead of box manny has a better chance but will take a hell of beating. If he tries to assert himself or catches mayweather with a hard shot, I will be worried about pacquiao. If you watch the mosley fight after floyd got hit it was serious business after that no playing around no smile on his face. If you watched the hbo fight lampley was like in the corner floyd looked embarrassed after the second round, and when floyd is in his "money may" character nobody has a bigger ego than him, so I knew it was time to get down to business. This is the first time in his past couple of fights that when floyd threw punches that you can see on his face that they were threw with the intent to hurt not just tag shane. And no one can make me believe that shane stopped throwing because he was tired, he underestimated floyd's power and after getting hit flush a couple of times he knew better than to just let his hands go. And finally, the reason floyd's chin is so good is because his neck is so strong, everyone has seen him building his neck muscles on 24/7. If you watch the first punch, which is really a knock out punch, floyd's whole upperbody moves to the side instead of just his head, but if you see some of the punches mosley took it looked like he could of got whiplash.

Now on to the actual topic of the post:
I would make sure to tell pacquiao to block out the break because as soon as the ref steps away floyd will throw a punch. I would tell him not to try and fight on the inside with mayweather because he is too good at creating a space big enough for him to through his short hooks but to small for the other person to throw a meaningful punch. Plus floyd is too strong to try to fight on the inside I've seen him create just enough space sparring with a heavyweight I'm pretty sure he can do it with ease on pac. I would try to teach pac to block the left hook like ****m did shane atleast take one punch away. I would try to prepare him for the body punishment he going to endur. Because unless he is in his fighting mode he punishes your body the whole fight, especially on the inside. And last I would try to tell him not to underestimate floyd's power even though I cant see pac taking him serious until he gets hit by floyd, there are too many people that say floyd has feather punches but when you talk to fighters after they have fought him they will tell you a different story.

bump for great post.

lampley got it right. theres a reason why Mosley was taken to get his neck checked out