Mayweather vs. Pacquiao – The article to make or stop all discussion
November 24th, 2009
By Adam Fillingham: I have written a few articles on this website. Some controversial, some not so. But I intensely read the articles posted on this website and in recent times the main discussion is around the ‘mega’ fight between Manny ‘Pac-Man’ Pacquiao and Floyd ‘money’ Mayweather.
In my honest opinion the whole influx of Pacquiao vs Mayweather articles should soon come to a halt. The fight will most likely never happen. I will put on record that if the fight does happen i will formally apologize in writing. This is why…
There will be a lot of money involved in this fight. Millions upon millions of dollars will be in this fight. Yet there is so much squabbling over who gets what percentage. To me this sounds like a good excuse to get out of the fight by using money issues. If they really wanted the fight they would agree on a 50- 50 % split of the money or a 60-40% split to the winner/loser receptively. This puts a lot of doubts into my head about the seriousness of the two fighters.
My next reason is that Pacquiao will most likely enforce his ‘catch weight’ strategy to weight drain his opponents and give himself an extra advantage. This will be the excuse Mayweather needs to get away from the fight, making “Pac Man” look like the bad guy. Although Pacquiao in my eyes, and many other peoples eye’s would be the bad guy in not helping the fight along.
My final and the most major reason in this article is the fact that both men have too much to loose. At this point in their respective career’s both fighters can boast that they are number one and both will be believed.
Without the bout ever happening both fighters can say what they like. Mayweather can stick to his guns that he is pound4pound king, just as Pacquiao will. The fight will most likely be the most argued fight by boxing fans than any other fight in history (with the exception of Ali vs Tyson), with fans arguing their cases for their respective fighters.
Mayweather also has more on the line as he is still unbeaten. Will he really want to lose his undefeated record? No of course not. So most likely he will be steered away from the fight by his promoters/coaches. This isn’t because he does not have the ability to beat Pacquiao, it is because the fight is too close to call. I myself will not be betting on this fight as I cannot even begin to predict who will win.
The “Pac Man” has his WBO title, which will most likely be on the line in the fight. Although its not a prestigious as Mayweathers undefeated record, it wont be pleasant for Pacquiao to loose his newest prize.
So will the fight happen? Most likely,no. That’s unfortunate because I really want to see the fight and i just wish the two fighters, or their promoters could come to some agreement. But the fact still remains, money talks.
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Floyd will sign for a fight, but when has he been in a fight
H dosn’t fight, he boxes. I don’t care to pay money to see
boxing. I pay to see somebody fight. He cant make weight, never makes weight. This blood test buss sxxt wouldn’t be the last problem if pacman agreed to it. There would be some other
problem, Manbe blood tests between rounds. Also he still
hasn’t sighed to fight Mosely yet????
Well the last comment is very brave… not!
Who cares what this dollop thinks………..?
I think we all need to be mindful that when fights are made the biggest part of the production is in the promotion. Pac’s team has done a great job promoting him being the smaller guy coming up in weight which of course increases the revenue. The boxing “experts” go back and forth about who will win in order to help build up for the fight. Bottom line nobody knows who will win and talking about it won’t make a difference one way or another.
if this fight happens, another boxer will be added who says ” i couldn’t see where the punches
are coming…!”…Pacman is well-motivated going to this fight because of the Mayweathers’ bad-mouthing of him…Pretty Floyd would turn Ugly on fight night.
If this fight doesn’t get made, it will be because Floyd doesn’t want it. Team Pacquiao has said that they will split it 50/50 or even do 40/60 to the winner. Alot of people have mentioned Floyd is the better boxer. This is true, he is light years ahead of Pacquiao in that regard. However, as a pure boxer, he’s never been in a fight before. Pacquiao has lightyears more experience in fighting and hes the better man in that regard. So when people say Floyd is gonna punish Pacquiao and hurt him, cmon. Lets have some real talk, Floyd has never punished anybody in his career. He safely goes for points wins each time and has never had the desire to be great.
If they come with that catch weight bull,then no there won’t be no fight,but if they do,they don’t want the fight.
same fools over and over again.
oscar is to big for manny! this fight is a circus!
ricky is too big for manny, he will bully him
cotto is too big for manny, he will bully him
mayweather is too fast and smart blah blah blah
and before that…
lewdwaba is too experienced for this guy pacquiao…
barrera is # p4p, he is too good for this guy pacquiao…
all i know is pacquiao makes me a lot of money. you fools keep on writing your pacquiao hating articles. I am putting my money on pacquiao as usual – which is always “money in the bank”
go bet on mayweather. how much money have you guys lost betting on pac’s opponents? or maybe….you secretly bet on pacquiao, and write these articles for the gullible people. But you aren’t that smart.
I WISH EVERYONE ONLY JUDGED FLOYD FOR WHAT HE DOES IN THE RING AND NOT OUTSIDE IT. HE IS THE #1 P4P FIGHTER AND HE WILL PROVE IT ONCE AGAIN WHEN BEATS PACQUIO. CHECK FLOYD’S CAREER RESUME THEN COMPARE IT TO PACMAN’S RESUME. FLOYD DOMINATES ON ALL SKILL LEVELS. SORRY BUT FLOYD IS LIKE THE KOBE BRYANT OF BOXING. TOO GOOD!!!!!!
147 isnt a bloddy catchweight
Pac/Mayweather will be at catchweight 150lb for vacant Ring Magazine “Jr. Middleweight champsionship” and perhaps WBC will release “Fighter of the decade diamond belt”.
I like this article, you also got me thinking but only thinking and not believing. No offense intended but I think it will really happen because all the fans wants it to happen. I know it’s not that big if a reason but it will be big enough to make the fight happen.
One last thing I want to add is that if they do fight, after the fight both fighters should respectively retire as the winner has nothing else to prove and the loser have done what it had to do.
This areticle is a waste of space. Theres always hype sayin certain fights might not happen, but the whole world wants this, Mayweather and Pacquaio want this, and whoever wins will cement their legacy as one of the true greats.
Thats why this fight will definitely happen!
This fight will most definately happen. Both want it.
yeah the fight may not happen simply because floyd jr. might price himself out of the fight.
weight will not be an issue coz floyd jr. will disregard it anyway. look what he did against JMM.
and yes, if it happens floyd jr. will educate manny..but only in the science of “how to earn money better than hussein bolt by running and running fast”
From what I have read in Pacquiao’s team, they will agree on 50-50 and no catch weight of 147 lbs for the proposed fight.The only person that I thought would end up not wanting to fight is Floyd himself who wouldn’t want to risk losing for the 1st time. Moreover, he would want a bigger share than the fair 50-50 split with Manny.
Unless Pacquiao team’s position changes, then Floyd would definitely turn out the bad guy for not wanting this fight to go on.
50/50????? Wow
FM may as well have waited 5 or 10 years and come back from retirement and make his claim that he’s P4P and king of PPV.
If 50/50 gets the fight done, great! Realistically, when fm retired, he handed the down the torch. To be fair it should be 55/45 at the least for PacMan.
Yes, the fight is gonna be interesting but I doubt if it is going to be exciting considering Mayweather style. Surely expected to be a boring one.
you might be right, it will probably be boring if it does because mayweather will make it boring!
I am hearing news that this fight is almost a done deal with each fighter getting 50%. Floyd is the far better fighter and boxer, his ring generalship is way better than pac-man, floyd also has the highest connection rate in his fights, and his speed, height, and 5 inch reach advantage will knock this bum down to earth, let’s get real people, people don’t like floyd because of his mouth but he backs it up with his hands and it will be his hands that will be raised at the end of this fight. As they say in vegas always bet on BLACK!!!!!
This fight will get happen & Floyd will educate Manny on d art of the sweet science.
U well need 2 learn how 2 spell lose, i fink the fight will happen and pacman will win. Good article tho