Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao will fight May 2nd

[KelVarnsen]

$120 million goes to a wife beating POS? Good job America

[Darkwater]

Originally Posted by KelVarnsen

$120 million goes to a wife beating POS? Good job America

180, actually.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Manny was more happy to have made the money than anything else, very weak effort on his part with very low punch output. Better to get blown out trying to win than how timid he was (and got blown out anyways). It's probably a little closer 5 years ago but not that much. Only Thurman is left out there who could be interesting for Floyd. People paid $100-$100,000 hoping for a non-Floyd fight, but it was a textbook Floyd fight.

[KelVarnsen]

Originally Posted by Darkwater

180, actually.

Even worse. #### Mayweather.

[MRCboicgy]

https://twitter.com/OscarDeLaHoya

[The Yen Man]

We pitched and paid for the fight. Don't regret it. Over the years, I've come to appreciate the tactical skills of Mayweather as a boxing fan. May be boring to watch most people, but you have to appreciate the skills he has.

Guy is still a bad human being though.

[sadora]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

You were either biased or don't understand boxing then. It's not street fighting it's boxing.

Pacquiao landed nothing. Being active and punching air has nothing to do with it.

It's not running away, it's called footwork, guys aren't supposed to just stand there and get punched.

Floyd is one of the best strategic counterpunches ever. Kept Pacquiao off with his jab and when Pacman did attack he danced around him and would hit him with a counter.

Can really argue with the stats that showed Floyd landed over 50 more punches.

Yes I'm most likely biased, but to call that "footwork" or running away from a fight a viable skill set then perhaps I don't understand boxing. This fight proves everything that is wrong with boxing. This supposed best fighter in the world just got close to 200 million just to hug and dance around a guy. I'm sorry but that's unacceptable. Let's see this "genius" of the ring step inside the octagon and actually get into a fight & see how good of a fighter he actually is.

[N-E-B]

That fight was awful. Watched at a bar, but I feel bad for anyone who paid for it...

[Looch City]

[Zach]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

https://twitter.com/OscarDeLaHoya

Oscar is mad.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by sadora

Yes I'm most likely biased, but to call that "footwork" or running away from a fight a viable skill set then perhaps I don't understand boxing. This fight proves everything that is wrong with boxing. This supposed best fighter in the world just got close to 200 million just to hug and dance around a guy. I'm sorry but that's unacceptable. Let's see this "genius" of the ring step inside the octagon and actually get into a fight & see how good of a fighter he actually is.

That's what different.

It's not fighting, it's boxing.

Floyd is a boxer and footwork and defense is a big part of that.

Floyd in Boxing is similar to GSP in UFC, in that he is so good technically he makes Ot boring.

And how Floyd would do in a UFC fight is about as relevant as how Gretzky would have done in an NBA game.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by CMPunk

The boxing crowd?

The "Tap-Out" crowd. In my limited experience watching big boxing PPV's at bars, it has the potential to bring out some greasier elements.

[sadora]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

That's what different.

It's not fighting, it's boxing.

Floyd is a boxer and footwork and defense is a big part of that.

Floyd in Boxing is similar to GSP in UFC, in that he is so good technically he makes Ot boring.

And how Floyd would do in a UFC fight is about as relevant as how Gretzky would have done in an NBA game.

This reminds me of having a convo with my dad cause he just simply thinks that boxing is the end all be all of fighting sports. It's understandable if you grew up watching boxing when the sport was actually good, but I'm sorry...if doing everything to avoid a fight is skillful and worth getting paid as much as Maywheather did then that just proves everything that is wrong with this sport. And the only reason I'm even suggesting that Maywheather step into an octagon is this bs pound for pound best fighter in the world thing they're calling him. Make him fight against actual fighters to see just how good he is....perhaps there's a reason why he has avoided fighting Pacquiao for ten years.

[SHOGUN]

I don't understand why people are complaining about Mayweather... you guys knew exactly how he fights, and it wasn't going to change in the midst of the biggest fight of his career. Expecting him to swing toe to toe with Pacquiao is ****ing dumb, and any true boxing fan would agree.

[sadora]

Originally Posted by SHOGUN

I don't understand why people are complaining about Mayweather... you guys knew exactly how he fights, and it wasn't going to change in the midst of the biggest fight of his career. Expecting him to swing toe to toe with Pacquiao is ****ing dumb, and any true boxing fan would agree.

I completely understand that promoters will say anything to sell a fight, but when you promote this as the fight of the century you can't help but be disappointed to see a guy who avoided to fight win this thing. This fight should have happened 10 years ago. Don't get me wrong, I think Pacman slowed down during the later rounds and perhaps his biggest mistake was not to follow through on his combos when he had Mayweather against the ropes. My biggest problem with this was that the the supposed best pound for pound fighter did everything to avoid a fight and still won.

[SHOGUN]

Originally Posted by sadora

I completely understand that promoters will say anything to sell a fight, but when you promote this as the fight of the century you can't help but be disappointed to see a guy who avoided to fight win this thing. This fight should have happened 10 years ago. Don't get me wrong, I think Pacman slowed down during the later rounds and perhaps his biggest mistake was not to follow through on his combos when he had Mayweather against the ropes. My biggest problem with this was that the the supposed best pound for pound fighter did everything to avoid a fight and still won.

Last time I checked May weather landed more punches. So i fail to see how he was avoiding the fight. People act like the decision was gifted to him. He countered pacman like magician.

[OzSome]

Originally Posted by SHOGUN

Last time I checked May weather landed more punches. So i fail to see how he was avoiding the fight. People act like the decision was gifted to him. He countered pacman like magician.

Sure it says on the biased HBO stats. It's kind of hard to land a punch on someone who keeps running away. I thought Mayweather is the best Pound for Pound boxer... he looks more like Pound for Pound best dancer. Who the heck was doing the counts on landing punches? I would have been satisfied if the scores was close but I just can't understand how lopsided it was. I guess that's what happened when you put 3 American judges on a fight between a Filipino boxer vs a star American boxer. Even Mike Tyson was not happy watching this fight and he tweeted "We waited 5 years for this". DeLa Hoya and others were also not impressed :

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/5/3/...ys-boxing-news

I thought I was watching 'Dancing with the Stars' tonight. What a joke!! I am glad I did not pay $100 on PPV for this fight.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Mayweather is the 1995-2003 New Jersey Devils of boxing. Maybe it wins, but it hurts the sport over-all.

In all fairness to the Devils, they didn't clutch and grab as much.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Mayweather's style is to clutch and grab and avoid being hit with his footwork (or dancing if you'd prefer). It has been for the better part of 8 or 9 years and he put together one of his best exhibitions of that last night. Pretty horrible to watch, but nothing new. Manny shares a lot of blame for the fight being boring because he simply didn't fight aggressively enough. Yes Floyd dances away a lot, but Manny still only threw around 35 punches a round. He needed to be closer to 70 to have a real chance to win. Really awful card overall too, all three matchups were mismatches and turned out that way.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by SHOGUN

I don't understand why people are complaining about Mayweather... you guys knew exactly how he fights, and it wasn't going to change in the midst of the biggest fight of his career. Expecting him to swing toe to toe with Pacquiao is ****ing dumb, and any true boxing fan would agree.

I think that a lot of people complaining in general (not just on CP, but social media as a whole) aren't really boxing fans to begin with. They saw the hype of the fight and were expecting a brawl because of that. If you were actually interested in this fight five years ago, you had a pretty good idea that Floyd would do his best not to engage. The thing is the vast majority of viewers were probably not boxing fans and were expecting the brawl.

I wasn't surprised by the outcome here, and I expected Floyd to do what he does. A guy doesn't get through 48 pro fights and who knows how many amateur fights standing and trading with punchers though. That's a recipe for brain injuries.

I just love the big spectacle of these events though. It's amazing and ridiculous at the same time.