Holyfield thinks Mayweather won’t beat Pacquiao

By Boxing News - 03/27/2015 - Comments

floyd58544By Chris Williams: Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield believes that Floyd Mayweather Jr won’t be allowed to beat Manny Pacquiao in their mega-fight on May 2nd, because boxing doesn’t want anyone to finish their careers with an unbeaten record.

Holyfield feels that Mayweather will lose the fight because boxing wants there to be a rematch due to the money involved. In other words, if Mayweather were to beat Pacquiao, the chances are that Mayweather would move on without facing Pacquiao a second time. But if he faces Pacquiao and loses on May 2nd, then it’ll increase the chances of a rematch taking place between them.

“Mayweather won’t win, because from what I’ve seen, boxing doesn’t want nobody to get out [of the sport] undefeated,” Holyfield said via sportsonearth.com. “They want to keep the money in the sport by doing things to make it happen this way. [Boxing executives] set it up that way. It’s because they will not let you out of boxing undefeated.”

Well, if Mayweather loses a controversial decision to Pacquiao on 5/2, it’s going to hurt the sport in a major way, because of the huge amount of boxing fans that will be witnessing the event.

It’ll make the sport look shady if Mayweather loses a fight that he clearly won. Of course, if it’s a really close fight that can go either way, then it won’t be such a big deal. But if you get scoring like the one judge who scored the Mayweather vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight a draw, it’s going to look really, really bad for the sport.

I don’t know that there’s any judge that would willingly open himself up for criticism by intentionally giving the fight to Pacquiao despite him getting dominated by Mayweather.

Pacquiao has been given controversial wins in the past against Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas, but I don’t think any of the judges would want to have the heat put them by scoring a fight for Pacquiao if he didn’t deserve the win.

It would be a situation where the judge would be opening himself up for criticism for a long, long time if he scored a fight that was out of touch with the reality of what happened in the ring.

If anything, I can see a judge scoring the fight for Pacquiao if he gets a lot of crowd applause on May 2nd. If the crowd is cheering each time Pacquiao throws a punch, then there’s a possibility that one or more of the judges will score rounds for him that he might not have actually won.

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I have faith that the judges will get the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight scored right. I believe Mayweather is going to make the fight so one-sided that even a blind judge will be able to score the fight correctly.

Mayweather isn’t going to let the shorter Pacquiao land his shots, and that’s going to make it impossible for any of the judges to score for the fight for him. Mayweather is going to be looking to score a shutout against Pacquiao and put the judges in a situation where it’ll be very easy for them to score the fight.



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