(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Chris Williams: It’s literally been ages since the Filipino star Manny Pacquiao (57-5-2, 38 KOs) knocked anyone out, and there’s a chance that he may never score another knockout for the remainder of his career unless his promoter Bob Arum finds someone that doesn’t have the greatest chin, or someone who is made to order for him.

With a six year gap since Pacquiao’s last knockout, it just doesn’t appear too likely that we’ll be seeing him knock anyone out in the near future. That’s why it seems all the more strange that Arum is predicting a knockout win for the 36-year-old Pacquiao when he gets inside the ring with Floyd Mayweather Jr (47-0, 26 KOs) on May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This is the wrong opponent with the wrong style for Pacquiao to be getting a knockout. If anything, Mayweather is the one who has the better chance of getting a knockout in this fight rather than Pacquiao.

“I really, really believe that Manny’s going to knock him [Mayweather] out. I think the strategy is good, you’re going to see. I really believe there’s going to be a knockout here,” Arum said via Thaboxingvoice.com.

It looks like Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach has tipped Arum off to the fight strategy that they plan on using for this fight, because otherwise Arum wouldn’t have a clue what Pacquiao’s fight strategy is going to be.

Unless Arum has been told what Pacquiao plans on doing, it’s probable that Pacquiao will be going out there to try and overwhelm Mayweather with punches like Pacquiao typically does in all of his fights.

Yeah, the style of good against with no punching power, who don’t have the talent or the fire power to nail Pacquiao back with something to scare him from fighting like that, but I don’t think it’s going to work against a master counter-puncher like Mayweather.

If Pacquiao doesn’t learn that he can’t fight like that against Mayweather on May 2nd, then Mayweather is going to teach him that he can’t fight in that style. It could be a very painful lesson for Pacquiao if he doesn’t forget about throwing combinations.

Throwing combinations against Mayweather is a recipe for disaster due to his speed and counter punching.

“This is not about promoters or managers or all that [expletive]. This is about two guys getting in the ring on May 2nd trying to tear each other’s head off. That’s the only thing that’s important; everything else is in the past,” Arum said.

It’s going to be about two fighters trying to prove who the better guy is. Mayweather wanted to prove that he’s the top dog back in 2009, when they first talked of fighting each other, but Mayweather wound up getting stopped due to Pacquiao not agreeing to the random blood testing that he wanted for him to take the fight.

Now six years later, Pacquiao isn’t getting the same financial deal that he would have gotten back in 2009, and Pacquiao is not the same fighter he was back then. He’s aged and taken a couple of losses.