Floyd Mayweather Jr was afraid of Pacquiao...yes he was

[DeadLikeMe]

The world watched Manny lose wide in an uneventful fight and moved on.

[Johnwoo8686]

Larry you spent literally years trying to convince yourself and others that Floyd wasn't afraid of Manny but now you had the epiphany he was?

Floyd wasn't afraid of Manny at all. He knew Manny presented certain intangibles that he hadn't dealt with but he wasn't afraid. Like Freddie Roach said, fighters don't get scared they get concerned.

[HanzGruber]

scared? no.. but he did look nervous before the bell lol

[HarvardBlue]

I don't think he was afraid of Pacquiao at all. I do believe he thought Pacquiao had an unfair advantage because of alleged PED use. Especially after seeing how quickly Pacquiao KOd Hatton. However, even that doubt went away after the third fight with Marquez. That's when he a made a real effort to get the the fight done. It still took awhile because they were both being divas. Fortunately, we got to see the fight, love it or hate it.

[BoxingTrav]

Agree to disagree with the post. Floyd was never afraid of Manny. He offered the 14day cutoff to save the fight to begin with. He knew that the only way Manny could beat him was by KO. So he fought in a way to not allow that to happen. What happened in the course of the fight is that Floyd gained respect for Manny's boxing IQ. Manny set traps for Floyd and in moments was able to trick him. But Floyd being the master he is figured out every trap quickly. Nevertheless Floyd was impressed. That's why he has said he's better than I thought.

Roach's respect for Floyd went up as well. Because him, Manny, Marvin and Buboy came up with those traps and the strategies and seeing how Floyd was able to figure them out so quickly made Freddie a believer. He knows that Floyd won the fight.

One last thing, the narrative is that Floyd fought Manny after JMM KO's Pacman. But that is not true. Team Pac made the fight with Floyd after seeing Floyd look vulnerable against Maidana. They thought he had slipped enough to get a victory. So many folks say that if they fought in 2010 Manny wold win. But Roach is on the record saying that Floyd would've won back then.

[ElMeroChingon]

You can see it in the fight and how he talks after..he bought into the media and the hype and believed in something that was never even present..His father even told him this, In life he fear things that are not even real. The mind works in mysterious ways, but once that confidence kicks in you overcome your fears and that is when greatness is made....Foreman also feared Frazier but once he overcame it we got a masterpiece....

Fear is not real and once a person realizes it they actually see how great they truly are in life, but as a fan and as the year ends i thought i would make this post just to clear the air. God bless you all and happy holidays

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All these Floyd threads

, Alright bruh, how much is he paying you, don't lie.


this is too weird for you to be just a fan.........so cough it up

[Slip Stream]

A health amount of fear is useful, there's a reason why we evolved to experience it, and i can't imagine Mayweather being immune. Mayweather respected Pacquiao and his power more then necessary in my opinion, Pacquiao at his best was a volume puncher that would wear you down more than a one punch ko artist so once he shut down his offense in round one he was in complete control.



I thought Sr was being excessive but his point was a valid one, Mayweather was in complete control and could have put more pressure, but he respected what Pacquiao was capable of, I see him being much more comfortable and aggressive if there ever were a rematch.

I don't completely agree because I saw a Mayweather that had figured out his opponent in round one. He said it in the Grey interview, "He's embarrassed, he was a beat fighter. There's a difference between.... A great fighter and TBE and I proved that I'm the best. Ummmm excuses, excuses, excuses I knew what was coming, I knew it but I'm not going to buy into the bull****, I'm not going to buy into the bull**** and I don't want the public to buy into the bull****, he lost he know he lost and, I lost a lot of respect for him after all of this. Ya know you fight, if you lose it's okay Mayweather was the better man, a true champion can bounce back."

"But when it's all said and done, he was a beat fighter, from round one he knew it 'I can't beat Floyd Mayweather.' Six days before the fight he boxed four rounds, and if you go look, when he came out to Las Vegas he was throwing combinations, everything seemed just fine."

[Brickyardigan]

He fought more tight and timid than I had ever seen him since probably the Oscar fight. He eventually loosened up, that's when he started landing those check left hooks.

You are seeing it wrong. He was boxing Pacquaio because Pacquiao was waiting to counter Floyd the whole time. Floyd stuck to the jab to lull Pacquiao to sleep and bait him. He wasn't timid at all, he was the one punching, not Pacquaio. Floyd around round 4 already had Pacquaio figured out and just kept doing what he was doing and will tease us with lead left hooks around Pac's guard at one point to show us that he could had done those with ease.

[Rath]

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All these Floyd threads

, Alright bruh, how much is he paying you, don't lie.


this is too weird for you to be just a fan.........so cough it up

my thoughts exactly.

but there is another reason he did this, he's trying to break spoons thread of 100 pages and 25k views. just a hunch.

[!! Shawn]

I think he feared losing more though Larry. We can say he was scared of Manny or he wasnt. I think more than all he was scared of losing...period.

JMM for example fought him 4 times. Wasnt scared of losing be casue he has suffered defeat before. Even loss to Manny. I thought he edged a close win with Manny in the 3rd personally or could have gone either way.

JMM will fight other fighters now but WILL not fight Manny again. Not because he is scared of Manny but because he is scared to lose again to Manny. Floyd didnt want to lose to Manny or any one. Especially Manny.

Why is Manny the only one wanting the rematch with Floyd or JMM? Floyd or JMM despite the MILLIONS they'd make.will not fight that man again! lol

It is all of the above. I think Floyd was in a position like a lot of the non Pinoy Pacquiao fans that we bet against him so many times, and he proved us wrong. Winning fights that were a step too far, that he shouldn't be able to win, and doing them in really really impressive fashion. Atleast for a while. After a while it became obvious that he wasn't destroying people like he use to, and that he was starting to slow down.

Floyd would have never taken the fight, if Pacquiao had continued on with the legendary streak he was on.

Floyd knew building his career on having people want to see him lose, the possibility of facing someone that might actually be able to overcome the odds and give him that loss was too big a risk.