Comments Thread For: Stats: Mayweather Landed a Career Low on Pacquiao

[mrlopez]

That shows both fighters didn't live up to the expectations. Sparring Match of the Century was too much.

Fixed it for you

[SolonGee]

ROFL pac clowns going to use this as evidence that Floyd didnt embarrass Pacquaio.

Compubox is a joke and the only thing it is good for is for punch output.

Floyd clowned on Pacquaio and made it look easy!

Despite having injury, Pacquiao came to fight. Floyd came to "survive" a Pacquiao fight. Everytime Pacquiao attack, Floyd hug and headlock him. Cotto, Marquez and Bradley doesn't hug Pacquiao that much and their fights are epic. Even Floyd Sr. is not happy of Floyd Jr's performance

[Beercules]

Manny "2Slick" Pacquiao

[junior gong]

I don't think it was a **** fight. There was a lot going on there if you know what to look for.

It was two ATG veterans at the tail ends of their careers fighting a chess match.

They're getting world record purses and charging a record amount to watch. I want to see more than a chess match. It was piss poor.

[SplitSecond]

even with compubox' inflation of floyds landed punches? that's amazing

[Bee Keepz]

I don't think it was a **** fight. There was a lot going on there if you know what to look for.

It was two ATG veterans at the tail ends of their careers fighting a chess match.

Exactly I enjoyed the fight.

[AFTER HOURS]

does this mean pac's defense is underrated

[Bee Keepz]

If you are a connoisseur of the sport you can enjoy that fight, it is pretty high level stuff and you can actually see a lot of interesting stuff going on.

Not everyone is going to dig that though and it is certainly not something you would just pop in, would need the right mood for watching that.

Yup...I thought it was a good fight. Intense with each guy trying to set traps.

[check hook]

It was poor offense by both for the same reason, each of them avoided the others trap. Both of them were reticent to come in and throw and they both fought extremely cautious. The mistake for Manny is that such a fight would always favour Floyd!

[Tom Cruise]

Yup...I thought it was a good fight. Intense with each guy trying to set traps.

This gets brought up all the time by the people excusing this fight. Trap setting, footwork, distance control, feints etc are all well and good, but they can all happen in a fight which has actual punches landed. Or drama of any kind.

Just saying it was good fight because there was lots going on other than clean punches doesn't make much sense to me. Clean punches are the end game. The touchdowns. The goals. The homeruns. Its what the two guys in the ring are aiming for. Both Mayweather and Pacquiao failed to consistently achieve what they were aiming for, though May did slightly better in most the rounds.

This is coming from a Rigondeaux fan btw.