Many fans picking Pacquiao to beat Mayweather

By Boxing News - 02/02/2015 - Comments

pac454By Jaime Ortega: After five years of failed negotiations it is unknown if Floyd Mayweather Jr. will ever take on arch-nemesis Manny Pacquiao. Floyd is not only giving a bad reputation to boxing, but even more sadly, he is playing his fan base by giving them false hopes while living it up on some island.

As I wrote in my past articles when the mega-fight hype was at the peak of its making, Floyd did not announce the fight in the Super-bowl, the rumors if anything were nothing but a prefabricated story that came out the imagination of some fans. Can’t blame the fans for dreaming, I mean they deserve the fight, just as much as Floyd claims he deserves the money the fans have invested on him to make him the rich man he is today.

Many fans for this reason alone have stop supporting Floyd. The few that defend Mayweather Jr. are not only against the ropes, but need to come with a new hypothesis into why Floyd has not fought Pacquiao. Floyd does not care about those fans who still stand up for him, supporting him against the emergent excuses he invents that frequently back him into a corner.

Go to Yahoo News, CBSsports, Boxing Insider, ESPN boxing, Sports Illustrated, Washington Post Sports and all other major networks, and browse their comment sections. The amount of negativity that Floyd has brought to himself has surpassed even the most avid and bias boxing fan base.

Only a few strong remain loyal to Floyd’s camp, that is Dontae’s Boxing Nation, Hustle Boss and Elie Seckbach’s ESNEWS who always asks the same questions regarding who will win between Pacquiao and Floyd.

Surprisingly, Fight Hype has gone more aggressive with Floyd given the last few interviews with Jeff Mayweather where he was asked about Floyd’s legacy being in jeopardy in case he didn‘t take on Pacquiao. Tha Boxing Voice has remained mostly neutral about the whole issue regarding the mega-fight by also blaming Bob Arum as the problem. Fight Hub has repeatedly given a negative image on Floyd’s persistence to avoid signing the contract with Pacquiao which has already been presented.

Popular Youtube commentators like 78sportsTV have remained quiet with Floyds expectancy to fight Pacquiao, perhaps refreshing his initial doubts, that Floyd doesn‘t want to fight the Filipino. TstreeT Controversy has been negative with Floyd not wanting the fight as he openly admits he is a big fan of Pacquiao. Thunder Dome Boxing and Enter The Arenaus have heavily criticized Floyd for the past 3 months and are starting to gather a big follow up.

All in all, Floyd has few networks that continue to support him, but based on the comments section, its clearer than ever before that he is being overwhelmingly bashed in the opinions arena.

BoxingNews24 has also experienced a high turnout ratio when it comes to speaking negatively about Floyd, but it shouldn’t be a surprise based on Floyd’s passive behavior to not wanting to make the fight with Pacquiao or perhaps simply making negotiations impossible for the two to ever come to a final agreement.

Floyd says we wants the fight, but it seems that TMT and Al-Haymon have not put the effort Top Rank, and Bob Arum have shown these past few months.

Another interesting factor is that although Floyd is favorite to win as stated by most sport books in America, the opinion of fans worldwide takes a distinct view, just browse different websites and Pacquiao is always on top by significant margins.

According to The Bleacher Report poll the favorite to win out of 10,000 votes, is Pacquiao at 64.1%, whereas Floyd gets 21.8%, 14% say the fight never gets done.

According to the Latin Post poll, out of 6,000 votes, 40% say Manny Pacquiao wins by KO, 34% says he wins by decision, 22% say Floyd wins by decision, and 3% say Floyd wins by KO.

Who Would Win a Fight dot com poll, shows 8,740 votes in favor of Pacquiao, as opposed to 5,300 in favor of Floyd.

Worldwide Pacquiao is favored to win leaving Floyd as a far second opinion wise. But why do boxing fans believe Pacquiao is the better fighter out of the two?

Lets be realistic, if Floyd retires soon not fighting the Filipino, Pacquiao still holds a better fighting record according to difficulty and most boxing historians will agree with me.

Floyd has never engaged in any trilogy series, or taken on the legendary Erik Morales, where supposedly he lost in a sparring session back in Big Bear California at high altitude, when Erik was on his prime.

Floyd did beat Marquez and gave him a boxing lesson, but consider the following fact, Marquez was 142lb, and Floyd at 146lb was four pounds over the catch weight and paid an additional 600,000 in penalties. Marquez was a natural super feather weight which starts at 135lb, but Floyd at naturally 151lb asked him to fight at a higher weight because Floyd could easily win as a super welter weight downsizing only a few pounds. Floyd ducked to allow GGG to fight him at catch weight but he surely asked Marquez to jump at his weight, so it would be fair for Floyd to also allow GGG to downsize in order to fight him.

Another interesting thought is that Jose Luis Castillo beat Floyd Mayweather in the first fight, but few of his fans are willing to accept he lost, even though Harvard University, and CompuBox showed Luis Castillo as victorious. After the Castillo fight, Floyd really showed how reluctant he is on ringside. Castillo won that fight, and all experts will agree basing it upon points.

Pacquiao not only has fought better opponents in different weight classes, but he also has the opportunity to take on young lions like Danny Garcia, Keith Thurman and Kell Brooks. Pacquiao still has a few years ahead of him before retiring, so he has a huge opportunity to overlap Floyds opponent diversity by taking on those fearless champions.

All in all, I have never been a Floyd fan and not planning to become one either, but it is clear that he has lost the publics support from most of his supporters and its going to degrade his legacy and rightly so for the good of boxing.

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