By Chris Williams: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. sees Manny Pacquiao as being under-equipped in the power department for him to hope that he can beat his son Floyd Mayqeather Jr. It’s possible that Floyd Sr. sees the 35-year-old Pacquiao as being not strong enough to get the job done against Mayweather Jr. due to Pacquiao not having knocked out an opponent for past 5 years since his stoppage win over Miguel Cotto in 2009.
That’s a fight that really was a questionable stoppage because Cotto was still fighting back in the 12th round, and the referee jumped in and stopped it after Pacquiao put a few punches together that got the crowd excited for a moment. Pacquiao’s last real knockout win was over a weigh-drained Ricky Hatton in May of 2009, and at that point it’s possible that a lot of fighters would have been able to knock Hatton out due to the weight that he’d taken off during training camp.
Floyd Sr. said to On the Ropes Boxing Radio “How are you gonna whoop Floyd with no power? That was the only thing he had going when they were talking before, that he may have a lucky chance to hit my son and get my son out. Now what he got in him now, what he fought that guy [Brandon Rios] with, he ain’t gonna whoop my son, period. He’s gonna get his a** tore up. I’m telling you the truth. He don’t have a chance.”
Pacquiao is one of those fighters who needs an opponent to be standing immobile in front of him for 12 rounds for him to score a knockout. He’s not able to stop a fighter who uses his feet and is defensive. We saw that clearly in Pacquiao’s fight against Tim Bradley in 2012. Bradley used movement, and Pacquiao was limited and couldn’t do much. Pacquiao doesn’t have the one-punch power to score knockouts against guys that refuse to just stand there in front of him to make it easy for him. He can’t score a knockout on the move, and he doesn’t have the leg speed to cut off the ring on someone that circles the ring the way that Mayweather Jr. and Bradley does.
There won’t be a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight unless Pacquiao leaves Top Rank, and by the time that he does do this, if he ever does, Pacquiao will be slower and less capable of scoring a knockout than he already is. If the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight takes place in 2015, then Pacquiao would really need Mayweather to stand still for him to be able to stop him because you can’t expect a 36-year-old Pacquiao to be able to cut off the ring on Mayweather.
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