Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Pacquiao Money Trail Leaves Mixed Bag Of Emotions 5 Years Later

[ShoulderRoll]

Cotto and dlh said in prime Pac would have destroyed floyd

It's a shame prime Pac didn't want it and waited for the right time to make the fight.

[hugh grant]

It's a shame prime Pac didn't want it and waited for the right time to make the fight.

That's true, also ssm having toothache so he couldn't fight Floyd so Floyd has to fight past prime versions, ruining Floyd s legacy. Ss m was nearly 39 when he fought floyd. Floyd around same age was fighting kick boxers

Floyd should then have been pro active if his legacy meant anything to him. He shouldn't have fought nelo at cw, or should have rematched nelo and fought at 160, or sergio, or ggg.
Floyd cherry picked many fighters at end of their careers himself, and many of them in hindsight weren't even that good in first place or overated, so there's lots going against floyd he has to claw a lot back to catch Pac up and be alongside histories best.

[ShoulderRoll]

That's true, also ssm having toothache so he couldn't fight Floyd so Floyd has to fight past prime versions, ruining Floyd s legacy. Ss m was nearly 39 when he fought floyd. Floyd around same age was fighting kick boxers

Floyd should then have been pro active if his legacy meant anything to him. He shouldn't have fought nelo at cw, or should have rematched nelo and fought at 160, or sergio, or ggg.
Floyd cherry picked many fighters at end of their careers himself, and many of them in hindsight weren't even that good in first place or overated, so there's lots going against floyd he has to claw a lot back to catch Pac up and be alongside histories best.

SSM destroyed Margarito then faced Floyd in his next fight after that.

Pacquiao faced SSM much later. And Freddie Roach has admitted that they avoided fighting him earlier because he was too dangerous. Once again Pacquiao waited for the right time.

[Combat Talk Radio]

This fight was gonna be the same in 2009, 2010, 2011, as it was in 2015. Fans and media want to act like if this fight happened in 2009, that there was going to be rainbows and unicorns in the arena, and that Pacquiao was gonna throw 1,500 punches and Mayweather was gonna get outworked.

In reality, counterpunchers like JMM and Mayweather always drop Pacquiao’s work rate considerably and Mayweather vs Pacquiao was always going to be a somewhat competitive fight with Mayweather edging Pacquiao in any year they fought.

The way the fight turned out in 2015 was my exact, and a lot fans exact predictions. It was going to be a rather boring 12 round fight that was never going to stylistically live up to the hype. No Pacquiao was never going to KO Mayweather, and no Mayweather was never going to beat Pacquiao 120-108. Mayweather was always going to beat Pacquiao at least 8 rounds to 4, with Pac’s best probably being winning 5 rounds out of 12. At his very best.

So writers and some fans can imagine the magical time of 2009-2010 when this fight was supposedly gonna be a barn burner or something, but is is all imaginary in the end.

Come on, that's not fair.

Imagine: 2009 Manny, fresh off the Hatton KO, NO strict drug testing. Let him know in advance when they're coming, free use of Toradol to numb his body to pain.

That would surely have guaranteed a barn burner, wouldn't it?

[hugh grant]

SSM destroyed Margarito then faced Floyd in his next fight after that.

Pacquiao faced SSM much later. And Freddie Roach has admitted that they avoided fighting him earlier because he was too dangerous. Once again Pacquiao waited for the right time.

This is actually petty way to see things typical of a Floyd fanatic.
Pac is still fighting fighting so you really think people are going to hold some grudge against pac? Ss m was nearly 39 when he fought floyd. Floyd at same age was fighting kickboxers.
Floyd nearly waited for right time his whole career. You want to give Floyd s medal or bravery award for fighting 5 loss 39 year old ssm?.Well that medal you should take away from Floyd and put around pacs neck, for cw against nel o and ducking thurman, spence and crawford

[HewJohnson]

“Dominated” lol. It was a game of tag ffs. I had mayweather winning, but it was no dominant performance for the ages, that’s for damn sure.

Same here I had Mayweather winning 7-5, but either 8-4 Mayweather or even draw wouldn’t have been inaccurate. Rounds won by May were not dominant at all, mostly won by default.

It was such a non-action packed fight. PAC tried and he did land the better of the exchanges, but not enough memorable punches.
Where as Mayweather had no memorable punches, unfortunately just potshot clinch and run.

It was not a dominant performance from either.
A fight that indecisive and lacking in actual combat demands a rematch.

It was such an awe-inspiring spectacle though to see those two in the ring. They did play a good game of chess with each other, although mostly pawn action. How you can avoid conflict an entire boxing match and win is crazy...ya gotta f’n engage man...

[Bunch Pag]

A general view..not necessarily just Floyd n Pacman.

When fighters are at the prime/top of game, the board's should insist they sort fights out. Everyone dodging each other at some point isn't giving paying fans what they want to see. It's fine milking the situations they are in but fans want to see who is the best when fighters are at the best..

[PittyPat]

I'll never forget that moment in Feb '15 when it was signed. I clicked onto the BS main page and it wouldn't load up, which wasn't a normal thing at all except during huge fights. Kept clicking for 30mins more and realised "Oh shit, something's rumbling in the world of boxing..." Then went to a smaller forum and there it was. It was fucking happening.

The sport of boxing, as a special event, peaked in that time. I don't think we've seen, or ever will see, anything like it. Fury–Wilder and Alvarez–Golovkin had shades of it, but in the end weren't even close.

[marikudo]

What still blows my mind til this day is that there's actually fanboy idiots who think Pacquiao won that fight hahahahaha they get wet watching "why Pacquiao beat mayweather" videos rofl fight wasnt even close, mayweather dominated

You’re an idiot. You’re better than Evander Holyfield in judging? You’re a Mayweather fanboy that’s for sure. The IV guy Mayweather.

[JTfloyd]

I love how some people are STILL trying to blame Floyd for the fight not happening in 2010, knowing damn well that Manny claimed to be "scared of needles" in those days. Yeah, the Pacquiao who already had a few tattoos by then, claimed to be afraid of needles, and "weakened" by blood tests.

Fact of the matter is, not only did he end up taking those very same tests in 2015, but got the back end of a 60/40 split, as opposed to the 50/50 he'd have gotten in 2010, before getting iced by JMM, and looking terrible against Bradley. As others have mentioned, Floyd would've dissected him in March 2010 even worse than he eventually did in 2015. There's a reason why Arum and team Pac were making so many excuses around that time period, to NOT fight Mayweather.