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Better win: Mayweather over Canelo or Pacquiao over Bradley(2)?
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Manny over Bradely Twice!
Manny over Bradley, twice! It's not even close. Floyd drained the kid, Canelo. PERIOD. All you have to do is look at the fight after Canelo fought Floyd. He gave Angulo a beating and was energetic, fast, and had stamina for days. Now, why do you suppose that was? The truth is, Floyd has always been overrated. He only fights a certain type of fighter. No? He has never faced a fighter like Bradley and never will. He doesn't face fast fighters, fighters that have legs, or A level fighters.
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LOL @ people saying Canelo.
Canelo was and still is the definition of a hype job. These days less so since he's already been exposed. But at the time he fought Floyd, he was absolutely over hyped.
Hes just lucky hes popular because he in no way or form deserved a shot at Floyd. I was saying since day 1.
Bradley on the other hand was a proven in his prime p4p type fighter.
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bradleys been in with - pacquaio,marquez,provo,casaymor**,alexander,abregu ,peterson,holt and witter
canelos been in with -
trout,lopez*,mosley**,cintron**,hatton*,baldomir**
*wtf?
**ancient?
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Tim Bradley. At the time these were the titleholders that he had beaten:
Peterson
Vazquez
Alexander
Provodnikov
And he was just coming off an impressive win over Marquez who was the #3 pound for pound fighter in the world coming off one of the biggest wins ever.
Bradley is the superior athlete, more experienced, more versatile, more proven, you name it.
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I was never impressed by Bradley at all to be honest, to me the second fight was a fight where Pacquiao has a hard time beating a guy he already beat easily in the first fight, before this second fight Bradley was coming off a clear loss to Pacquiao (screw the scorecards), a knock out drag out with C+ B- level Provodnikov and a close decision win against 40 year old Marquez who was on his way to getting KOed by Pacquiao before he caught Pacquiao with a big right hand after Pacquiao made the terrible mistake he always does.
Bradley started to balloon in weight after fights especially after the first Pacquiao fight and he had to cut so much weight to make 147, which showed in his performance. Don't forget that he was also injured in both fights.
Lol at Bradley being top pound for pound fighter, people forget that he won the 147 lbs title by a BS decision against Pacquiao in 2012, I've never seen him perform in a way that made me even think he's a pound for pound level fighter!
Mayweather was a very small favorite against Canelo, he hasn't been this small of a favourite since 2007 and a lot of people thought the 23 year old prime big guy was going to upset the 36 year old smaller guy in Mayweather. I agree that Canelo at the time wasn't on a pound for pound level either but at least he was the unified WBC/WBA light MW champion and the number 1 ranked light MW in the world by the ring magazine. Of course it would've been better if the fight wasn't at a catch weight but I don't think 2 lbs should make a difference if the fighter had enough time to prepare for the fight, I never blame Cotto's loss to Pacquiao on the 2 extra pounds Cotto had to lose for the fight. Plus Canelo's camp were the ones that demanded the catchweight for some reason, which was not the smatest thing to do but Canelo came to the fight at 165+ lbs anyway and Floyd barely weighed 150.
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I would give the edge to Pacquiao for the reasons you stated. I think both wins were great wins. I would say Mayweather's win was better if he had done it without the aid of a 152 pound catchweight. I think the catchweight hurt Canelo's strength, speed, stamina and fighting ability but it was fight at 152 or no fight.
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