By Chris Williams: The middleweight division’s best fighter Sergio Martinez was asked recently who he thought would prevail in a mega fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao if they were to ever fight, and without even batting an eye, Martinez said “Floyd Mayweather is the best fighter in the world,” in an interview at Boxero de Primera. “That’s why I’d love to fight him. Mayweather would sweep the floor with Pacquiao.”
I have to agree with Martinez because he’s a world champion and a boxing expert. He knows what Pacquiao and Mayweather are capable of doing in the ring, and he obviously knows their limitations as well. It looks like Martinez feels that Pacquiao wouldn’t measure up enough to even make a fight of it.
Gosh, and all that hype that has gone on for eons about a potential Pacquiao-Mayweather mega fight, and after all those years, it would turn out to be a sad one-sided mismatch with Mayweather clowning the Filipino fighter. Naturally, I would hope that it would be a competitive fight, but Martinez, the boxing expert, has spoken.
Martinez says Mayweather will wipe the deck with Pacquiao, so how can I argue with Martinez. He’s the best fighter in the middleweight division, and before that, he was the best fighter in the junior middleweight division. Martinez has dried like the devil to get a fight against Pacquiao, but he’s been ignored.
Mayweather, though, says he’s interested in facing Martinez at some point in time, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Mayweather chose to take the Martinez fight in 2013 so that he can hear the applause and adoration from his loving fans for having enough courage to fight Martinez – and without a catchweight handicap that some fighters use to weaken their opponents enough so that they can beat them.
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