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

[mcdonalds]

#48ers need to give it up, the war is over. Floyd beat him and now promotes his fights

[hugh grant]

It's not Floyd's problem that Pac has fought 70 times.

Why hasn't Pac fought Canelo, GGG and Martinez?

As usual it seems your not listening.
Nelo, Ggg and Sergio don't want to fight a flyweight. Just because Floyd thinks he can make his name beating 70 fight flyweights don't mean they do.
Floyd said gg g and Sergio were easy work.
So people want Floyd to prove What he claimed. I'm still none the wiser why you keep asking why Pac don't fight Ggg and sergio?.
Floyd beat a green nel o with cw. We know he can do that. We don't know if Floyd can beat prime nel o without cw.
There was no point Pac fighting cott o again as there's no coming back from beatings like that and cott o didn't improve after that loss to pac.

Just because Floyd made cotto look like a million dollars doesn't mean he was. Floyd should have stopped cotto. If Pac can stop Hatton in 2 rounds in Hatton best weight why can't floyd?

[ShoulderRoll]

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

Pacquiao fought SSM after Floyd did. And Freddie Roach admits they avoided SSM earlier because he was too dangerous.

Those are just facts.

[hugh grant]

Pacquiao fought SSM after Floyd did. And Freddie Roach admits they avoided SSM earlier because he was too dangerous.

Those are just facts.

Pac did eventually fight old Sam just to show he could beat him as good as Floyd without being nearly knocked out by 39 year old and to show how past prime Sam was.
Pac s not claiming its a great win like Floyd fans try do

[Liondw]

What's amazing is that the Mayweather-McGregor fight got so many ppv's, when Conor isn't a professional boxer.

[JK1700]

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.

5 star posting at its finest 👍

People forget that Manny and Bob were doing everything possible to avoid the fight until Manny got KTFO and his stock plummeted and he had tax problems etc. It was only then that they showed any kind of interest in it.

[JK1700]

Lol @ all the Pac fans coming into the thread saying Floyd didn’t do anything and the fight should’ve been a loss or a draw. Name one round outside of 4 and 7 that was even competitive. I had it 10-2. Manny looked like he wanted to quit after the 8th round. I’ll say it again - he landed an average of 6 punches per round! Both Maidana fights were way more difficult than the Pacquiao fight.

Floyd totally schooled him and knocked him silly with right hands all night. It was so embarrassing for Pac to get beat like that, and his fans still can’t accept it 5 years later. You guys need to accept it and move on you are totally embarrassing yourselves in this thread. There’s no shame in losing to the best everyone else got dominated too not just him.

[boxinggod101]

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.

Exactly how I see it and Im a huge Manny fan. I just cant see him beating Floyd at any point. Floyd reach and footwork alone was too much for Manny.

[Jedi Vader]

As usual it seems your not listening.
Nelo, Ggg and Sergio don't want to fight a flyweight. Just because Floyd thinks he can make his name beating 70 fight flyweights don't mean they do.
Floyd said gg g and Sergio were easy work.
So people want Floyd to prove What he claimed. I'm still none the wiser why you keep asking why Pac don't fight Ggg and sergio?.
Floyd beat a green nel o with cw. We know he can do that. We don't know if Floyd can beat prime nel o without cw.
There was no point Pac fighting cott o again as there's no coming back from beatings like that and cott o didn't improve after that loss to pac.

Just because Floyd made cotto look like a million dollars doesn't mean he was. Floyd should have stopped cotto. If Pac can stop Hatton in 2 rounds in Hatton best weight why can't floyd?

Why are you talking about Flyweights??? Pac was and still is a Welter. Floyd and Pac were in the same weight class when Martinez, Canelo and GGG were fighting at smaller weights. You KEEP going on about Floyd fighting GGG, Canelo (who he schooled) and Martinez. If you keep going on about why Floyd didn't fight them, I will ask you the same question about Pac.

Floyd and Pac were in the same weight class so why didn't Pac fight GGG, Canelo and Martinez?

Again, you're complaining that Floyd didn't prove himself because he beat Canelo at a CW. So to keep consistent and to not be a hypocite, why didn't Pac rematch Margarito, Cotto, De La Hoya and Clottey at the correct weights and not CW's?

[sweetpea87]

Has it been 5 years already? Such a forgettable fight after the biggest build up in history