Mayweather vs Pacquiao @ 147: Who wins?

[LoadedWraps]

Pac fans don't see it that way, he clearly fights easier competition but the media never calls him out on it.

ESPN got shook that time when they did call Pac out on it, they received threatening mailings and emails.

Agreed.

your 1st 2 paragraphs are all opinions.

There is only one a side in any fight. Manny is the biggest b side ever I will concede. He simply didn't agree to fight. STop blaming others for that decision.

Manny's testing for rios isn't the gold standard. But, as DIrk and others point out, Manny was in better economic position than the other b sides fo floyd so he choose not to accept ost and no fight.

in 2009 he wanted ost because he thought manny was using ped's.

In 2013 he said that because he has all the negotiating power and he is doing to manny what TR did to JMM and Bradley for them to get a manny fight. If its not right now it wasn't right then.

He didn't say that exactly but in 2011 he said that as a sarcastic remark to his haters. You saw the video so you are fully aware of the context and setting. Pretend otherwise if you wish.

Thats all you hear because that makes you feel better about manny and by extension yourself.

Good post.

[HanzGruber]

Floyd hasn't fought a guy coming of a loss in 9 (almost 10) years. Pacquiao has fought 3 guys coming off losses in the last 3 years. Of Pacquiao's last eighteen opponents (not a typo) the one on the longest winning streak was David effin Diaz, with five wins in a row. Floyd fights winners, Pac fights losers. Now Manny is fighting another loser (which is ok since he is a 2/3 fight loser himself) in China while Floyd is fighting an undefeated twenty-something middleweight who is coming off the biggest win of his career. Pac's handlers have turned him into a joke the last few years.

quality post, nice to see some users use logic on this site

[tomhawq]

poor fans. all they are left with are fantasy discussions about a fight that could have happened but didn't. seiously, though, i'm siding with floyd on this one. pac wins this fight.

[Boxing Bob]

Manny is the better human being, however Floyd is the better fighter and always was.

[SplitSecond]

pacquiao would have beat floyd

atm, if pacquiao isn't shot and can still be as good as he was vs marquez, he can still beat floyd

[jimboinbigd]

I laugh at all the dudes here saying bad thread or this isn't 2009, etc. Man, shut the phuck up. THIS IS STILL THE BIGGEST FIGHT IN BOXING, IF NOT ALL TIME, and especially if Manny and Floyd both win their next fights convincingly.

2,5 million ppv buys if they both stay unbeaten over the next year or two. This place would be off the chain from the minute it looked like they were negotiating it, to weeks after the fight took place. Would it be as good as 2010, no, but it would still BE HUGE.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Floyd beats manny....

If morales and jmm beat manny and outboxed him what do u think floyd would do....

The key to manny is straight right counter or lead...

Barrera left hooker
diaz plodder
oscar left hooker
hatton mauler
cotto left hooker
clottey def shell counterpuncher
margs mauler
shane left hooker
bradley volume work-rate...

None had a good straight right lead/counter

JMM and morales both have great right hands...
Floyd has one of the bests...
Not hard to imagine him moving away from manny and pegging him with straight rights

[dc3383]

Nothing has changed in my mind to make me ever think Manny would beat Floyd. It's a fight I wish would have happened at this point in time I don't want to see it. Neither Floyd or Manny are at there best they both ruined it.

[baya]

interesting question, i've never thought about this scenario.

[straightleft]

People should honestly think you will never win a fight if you are terrified to your opponent and thinks about your health as your first priority.