Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: In Their Prime, Pacquiao EASILY Beats Mayweather!

[Mike D]

Who the f**k cares. All of y'all, Floyd supporters and Manny supporters alike, can speculate all you want. Nobody will ever know.

We'll never know how a fight would've played out at both of their peaks.

We saw them fight at the end of their careers. All the fight proved was that a 38 year old Mayweather beat a 36 year old Pacquiao in what was an atrocious, action depraved "fight" where neither fighter left with a scratch and where each landed their career lows in punches landed.

[Elroy The Great]

prime pac wouldnt be able to beat any version of may.
prime may (below ww) destroys pac.

[Elroy The Great]

Who the f**k cares. All of y'all, Floyd supporters and Manny supporters alike, can speculate all you want. Nobody will ever know.

We'll never know how a fight would've played out at both of their peaks.

We saw them fight at the end of their careers. All the fight proved was that a 38 year old Mayweather beat a 36 year old Pacquiao in what was an atrocious, action depraved "fight" where neither fighter left with a scratch and where each landed their career lows in punches landed.

hey there, mike

you know how we love fantasy fights. playing out how things might have turned out if such n such fought....and what fun is it if a person doesnt pick whod win

prime vs prime fights -
may vs pac
may vs srl
mike tyson vs tua
bowe vs lennox
hagler vs rjj

on and on

just my 2 cents

[AdonisCreed]

At the age they fought Mayweather took him to school end of story. All that what if BS doesn't matter. If it was reversed and pac had won the same rules would apply. Don't throw in fairytale scenarios lol hahaha it is what it is lol

[Larry the boss]

He takes care of himself. He trains all the time, so Floyd is fresher. He doesn’t fight like Pacquiao. Pacquiao gets hit and keeps coming. That just wears you down. So I have to give Floyd the advantage, as much as I love Pacquiao.”

How can you slam anyone for this?

[Larry the boss]

does he have to mention Mayweather to promote the fighters he has?

[Thraxox]

im pretty sure manny didnt want no part of floyd in mayweathers peak either turning down drug testing and a 40mill offer which would have been his biggest purse ever at that moment

Manny recieved 120 million in the May 15 fight and was doing 20-25 million paydays in 08-10. This argument is just ******ed.

[Larry the boss]

who the f**k cares. All of y'all, floyd supporters and manny supporters alike, can speculate all you want. Nobody will ever know.

We'll never know how a fight would've played out at both of their peaks.

We saw them fight at the end of their careers. All the fight proved was that a 38 year old mayweather beat a 36 year old pacquiao in what was an atrocious, action depraved "fight" where neither fighter left with a scratch and where each landed their career lows in punches landed.

amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A CAREER HIGH PAYDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Thraxox]

You know the argument is sound when the guy refusing to take ped tests is the one being defended and arguments of “Floyd should have fought the cheat Margarito with plaster!” Are one of the points used.

I dislike Floyd, but honestly? Outside of the delusional ones, who wishes that on anyone of the sport they love? To have gone in against a cheat, who many attribute the fall of a great fighter (Cotto) to.

Shane in his prime? Shane and Oscar were both prime at different times than Floyd. The best we were ever going to get due to the differences in their careers at that time was a past it but still good Shane and Oscar. Yes, Floyd is the picture and the model of cherry picking and fighting guys when they were ripe for the picking, but Pacquiao was NOT one of those.

I’m not saying Pac used, but Arum held that fight back more than anyone else. Pac was in the fight even less than Canelo was.

For all the people saying Floyd only fights once a year or every two years and is fresher, etc..it’s not his fault Pacquiao was easy to hit and was getting KOd before they fought. Most guys need tuneups after long layoffs, but when it comes to floyd, whatever is used to criticise is whats used.

Yes, he cherrry picked. Yes, he’s something of a POS. Yes, he’s a defensive minded fighter once he moved up and had hand issues and made for some snoozers. By the time they fought, Floyd was a drastically different fighter than he was in his Pretty Boy days/prime. More noticeable than Pac’s decline.


The problem is that Pac “lost” his prime once guys started using defense to make him pay and hitting him back. “He was prime before JMM. He was prime for only the first two JMM fights.”

It’s like, to some people it’s unfathomable that some fighters were just *better* than him.

When was the end of his prime? When he stopped knocking people out after PEDs accusations? After beating Morales? After the first JMM fights? After Oscar? Cotto? Marg?

Mayweather was older and less active. Get over it. He’s just a better fighter. Pac was still a f uckin bad ass but there were two fighters in his weight classes that were better. JMM and Floyd. Pac was never the legitimate best in any division he shared with those two... that’s how facts work.

Pac became some like father figure to a couple freaks and it got really weird but its over. Stahp it

You are kidding right? Manny's output literally dropped more than 50% when he fought may compared to the 08-10

So a fighter who had 65+ fights, countless wars, started at 16 years old is, fought better opposition, and had a style that is KnOwN as a FACT that would be faster in decline as an offensive fighter than low output fighters isnot more declined than A man who started 3 years older, had 18 less fights, less wars, a and fought lesser opposition and especially has the style that has longevity.

How does that make sense? And also it make sense for Pacquiao, known as a fighter that fought P4P fighters throughout his career, that never ducked a fighter, to NOT want to fight Mayweather who is known to avoid certain oppositions (Prime A-level) because why?

[Larry the boss]

You are kidding right? Manny's output literally dropped more than 50% when he fought may compared to the 08-10

His output dropped every time he fought a fighter who was not a rockem sockem robot man..Floyd always makes his opponents output drop