Who Should Mayweather fight First: Pacquiao or Mosley?
September 22nd, 2009
By Sean McDaniel: Floyd Mayweather Jr’s impressive 12 round unanimous decision last Saturday night over Juan Manuel Marquez may have done enough to reestablish the 32-year-old Mayweather as boxing’s number #1 pound for pound fighter in the sport. The fight was so one-sided that it because somewhat boring to watch after the first few rounds because Mayweather was far too fast and superior defensively for the slower and smaller Marquez to handle.
There’s little question that Pacquiao is the much bigger star in comparison to the 38-year-old Mosley, and a fight with Pacquiao would likely translate into a huge PPV numbers. Pacquiao, an offensive dynamo, with hand speed about as good as Mayweather, would make a fight with Floyd interesting for as long as it lasts.
Pacquiao isn’t a fighter that Mayweather could pot shot his way to victory because Pacquiao would make Mayweather pay for his single shots. Additionally, Mayweather couldn’t run away from Pacquiao like he did against the slow-footed Marquez last Saturday night and hope to be able to escape unscratched.
Pacquiao is very fast on his feet, perhaps even faster than Mayweather, and would quickly track Mayweather down and make him pay for any pot shots that he lands. Mayweather didn’t look good while backing away from Marquez. During those many moments in the fight, Mayweather was ineffective while fighting going backwards.
This is something that Freddie Roach will no doubt pick up while watching the Mayweather-Marquez fight and will give Pacquiao instructions to keep pursuing Mayweather when he runs away to avoid confrontation. Another weakness that Mayweather showed against Marquez was that when Floyd would throw one of his right hand pot shots, Mayweather would almost in every instant, duck below his waist to avoid a counter shot from Marquez while moving underneath him. Mayweather does this move all the time and is very predictable.
Pacquiao only needs to wait for Mayweather to land his pot shot, and then meet him with a right hand uppercut or a chopping right to the head because Mayweather will almost be ducking low and trying to move past Pacquiao.
A fight against Mosley would be a better match-up for Mayweather as far as size and power goes. Mosley is slightly bigger than the 5’8″ Mayweather and has the better power. It would be a welcome break for Mayweather to fight Mosley because this is a fighter who at least fights in the same weight class as Mayweather.
Floyd has fought a light welterweight (Ricky Hatton) and now a lightweight in his last two fights. If Mayweather wants to avoid being pegged as a fighter that hand picks opponents from the lighter weight classes to fight, he might do himself a favor by breaking up his patter of fighting smaller guys by choosing Mosley next.
It would be a fight in which Mayweather wouldn’t get as much money as I stated already and it would probably be more risky for Mayweather as well because of Mosley’s hand speed, boxing talent, experience and ring movement. However, Mayweather would get a lot from the fight in regards to the respect of boxing fans and that’s something for Mayweather to consider before ruling out a fight against Mosley.
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i think the fans wanna see floyed and pacman not floyed and shane
Now pacman vs cotto, cotto is damaged goods and was givin the clottey fight by the judges as a gift, clottey clearly won the fight I’ve watchd it over and over, call me a cotto hater mayweather hater, watever,fact is I’m a real boxing fan I have my favorite fighters and I don’t dislike any 1 fighter,I truly state the facts, and the fact is pacman is going to be to fast and to mobile for cotto to handle, however I do not count cotto out at all, he is a devistating body puncher but is very vulnerable to pressure wich pacman is a very aggressive dominating pressure fighter that does not tire, cotto has shown his conditioning is only good for about 8-9 rnds in his last fight. Manny by late stopage
Sum people on here no nothn about boxing, whoever said floyd would handle pac easier then jmm you are complete fools, pacman is solid as a welter and has carried his speed and his punch up to welter, his speed matches floyd and he is far superior on his feet then jmm or any1 that floyd has faced and is going to be busier then any fighter floyd has faced, call me a pacman lover but I’m telln the facts, hatton,de la hoya,jmm, DO NOT have the speed, the foot work,the power, or the relentless fury that pacman will have if floyd faces him , mosley I give a good chance at floyd as well for he is a true welter and the bigger welter than floyd, hell even unknown andre berto or joshua clottey have good chances, lot of great fighters to beat floyd but bottom line and fact is floyd is a cherry picker that doesn’t want to lose there for he cherry picks his opponents. These are true facts and if they aren’t maybe floyd can prove me wrong and pick a real fight.
shane is the only one that can beat floyd, cotto has no chin,pac man is too small ,floyd will just throw one punch then hold and run. Shane can mix up speed power and make it physical.
Mayweather will fight whoever provides the smallest risk… My money is on Pacquiao. He’s the smallest guy, the one who he thinks got beat by the man he just annihilated and he brings in the PPV sales. I definitely think it will happen.
remember freddie roach told us that manny is a small guy but he can box like a middleweight that explain everything. Pacman can beat PBF no doubt about it.
if anyone can beat maywether its mosley ‘you got to beat floyd at his own game ,and next to floyd is shane for speed ,cotto is to slow ‘pacquio is to small maybe, but shane got the speed size and power’ i aint saying hes goin to beat floyd but if any one can it shane.
Comme on unblock me I’ll keep it clean
if he wants to be, as he says legend, he has to do much more than to beat smaller opponents. if he is as good as he says he should try someone bigger. if he would really excpetional fighter he would fight winner williams – pavlik then mosley cotto pacquiao – then he would be real best of bests. what I expect from him is likely to fight Darchinyan next, sorry bu he is not tough and fighter enough to claim yourself at top of hall of fame…
when mayweather beats mp they will say “hes too small for him !” when he beats mosley and makes him look bad “mosley was all washed up , hes OLD ” fm has fought big and small guys with great results ..people want to see floyd lose because hes got a mouth on him and hes arrogant ,and he will lose eventually,but people need to give him due as the absoluste BEST fighter pound for pound .love him or hate he beat jmm like no one else could !!
Mosley is the best fight out there for Mayweather. I am a Cotto fan and a Mosley fan-but i will be honest, Cotto did not win convincingly. It should have been a draw in my book. So you people can’t say that Cotto really did win that fight, there should be a rematch for sure. Mosley would beat Mayweather hands down!
Floyd needs to fight Mosley, Williams,or Cotto. Winning those fight would make him an all time great! fighting Pacquiao or any other light welter will be a lose lose. I believe Williams is the only one that can beat him.
pacquiao wouldn’t even stand a chance againgst the less named top fighters in the lightweight and jr. welterweight divisions..that’s one reason why boxing isn’t how it used to be…they aren’t putting the the best boxers against each other rather who can rake in the most money…
Manny will not beat Cotto, and even if he does he doesn’t stand a chance against Mayweather, I hate Mayweather but he’ll handle Pacquiao even easier than he did Marquez, Cotto vs. Mayweather, and then the winner facing Mosley, thats what I want to see.
he should fight his dad
sorry but pac-whats his name is not in the same catagory as fm..why does everyone make excuses as to why they lost against fm ? i too thought jmm would make it at least competitive , i was wrong ..love him or hate him,its time people start giving fm his due !! stop looking for the reason his opponents got beat and think hmm ,after all these years of a perfect record , maybe its all the hard work and training thats paying off ??go floyd..
**as he will demolish mosely
cotto is going to hammer pac-man back to where he belongs. a win against over the hill morales, de la hoya, and hatton doesn’t prove anything.
cotto will beat pac-man. that should leave cotto to face-off with pretty boy. mosely is not worth the sweat for mayweather as he will demolish mayweather.
all you fans of FMW and MOSLEY will you SHUT UP! PACMAN is the real DEAL… what happen to JMM split decision… what happen to ODLH tko… what happen to RICKY HATTON ko… hmmm maybe COTTO might be same as the three..
Carlos – Why would Mayweather or Williams for that matter move up to Super Middleweight?
Williams last time out fought at Middleweight and that I think was his first fight at middle. Mayweather has only fought at 154 once against Oscar. The fight could be made for light middle if they wanted it.
Mayweather doesnt need to move up another two/three divisions, he has plenty of fights available at welter if he wants them.
And finally, Mayweather – Williams would not outsell a Mayweather – Pacman fight. Your obviously a big Williams fan, but to be fair he’s not as well known as Pacman.
jmm said that li’l didn’t punch that hard.
Anonymous Says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 am
IF manny gets through cotto and the mayweather fight happens no one can be certain that he won’t get hurt after Floyd lands a pot shot. Dont get me wrong manny is a heck of a fighter and has proved many critics wrong but he has yet to prove he is a durable welter.
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Neither has Mayweather, proved a durable Welter that is.
Balbimore/judah/DLH/Hatton/marquez in last 3.5 years. He’s not even the top welter.
Mosley should fight Mayweather first. This is really a salivating match. The have similar size and Mosley’s speed is not far behind Mayweather. Mosley can pressure Mayweather for a competitive fight.
For Pac, he needs to concentrate for Cotto’s fight. He will be facing the hardest hitting welter today. If luckily Pac can pull an upset, he still will have a long way to go before he can be competitive with Floyd. First and foremost, Pac should practice ducking and taking heavy punches to get inside the reachable range of Mayweather.
Floyd should fight the winner of Pac/Cotto and then destroy loud mouth Mosely!
Floyd is on another level and is gonna beat who ever they put in front of him anyways, the only person who I see giving him a fight is Cotto.
Mayweather should fight Hatton in Feb 2010 with a fight against Cotto/Pacman/Mosley in August 2010 and then a final one against one of those three at start of 2011 and retire!
i think mayweather should fight manny next to prove who is the pound 4 pound king
Mayweather to take out Mosley, Pac man to take out Cotto, Mayweather to take out Pac-man, simple.
The reason that this site is full of Mayweather haters is because everyone loves to hate him. He talks so much trash, & creates so much of an uproar with every interview he does that he gets everyone wound up about whatever the contoversy of the day is. He’s really good at playing the game that he plays, & this is the natural reaction from every potential opponent’s fans. So dont get mad at folks for hating Mayweather…He lives for it…
This site must be full of Mayweather haters! How is dominating a fight unimpressive? I guess Floyd should get bloodied up like Arturo Gatti used to and win the fight! Thats not impressive, sure its nice to see someone getting beat up and then come back and win, but then, who really wants to get beat up and win a fight. Ill tell U. NO ONE! People enjoy those fights because its not them in the ring! If im in a fight im damn sure not out there to let the other guy hit me, thats just dumb!
that woud be a good fight but floyd would win i love paul but floyd is to much for paul how can you beat floyd if Carlos Quintana beat paul you all would go nut if floyd got in the ring with carlos paul is a big guy but he can be out boxs he need to thorw 200 punchs a round to beat floyd that is the only way the kid is that good
all you flordia cotto fans will be crying when pac man beat the brakes off Cotto.he’s just like tito all talk. Pac will put him back on the island 4 good……JD
thanks carlos . if floyd fights paul he would get KO
I’m gonna laugh so hard when Cotto wins this fight and i would love to get back to all this haters but i have no time and is not worth it… Mua Mua ladies!!!!
For the record, if Mayweather wants to be great he should fight williams at super middleweight. Take the risks that Pacquiao has been taking. Now that fight would outsell even a Mayweather/Pacquiao fight and would win Mayweather the hearts and minds of the general public.
IF manny gets through cotto and the mayweather fight happens no one can be certain that he won’t get hurt after Floyd lands a pot shot. Dont get me wrong manny is a heck of a fighter and has proved many critics wrong but he has yet to prove he is a durable welter.
Cotto is damaged goods. He was gifted the fight with Clottey. Edgar Cintron wannabe, look for some other blog to whine and dine.
yep
I partially agree with cintron. Cotto is great so he can´t be counted out.
This over-rated Pac-man issue is pathetic already!
Did anybody even see what Marquez did to Pac-man?
Did anybody see what Cotto did to Mosely?
Did anybody see how Zab Judah handled Floyd?
Did anybody see how Cotto demolished Zab Judah?
Did we even forget that Zab Judah AND Mosely were both also over-rated over Cotto due to THEIR SPEED?
Ha Ha Ha Cotto is number one sorry haters!!!!!
Here we go again, leaving Cotto out of it! Another Cotto hater!!!
Can’t wait till Cotto shuts you up!!!