By Chris Williams: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr expects his son Floyd Mayweather Jr to have an easier time against the 5’6” Manny Pacquiao in their fight in the next 39 days, because Mayweather has become accustomed to fighting guys that are 20 pounds heavier than himself such as Marcos Maidana and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.
Both of those guys had a considerable weight advantage over Mayweather when he got in the ring with him. But with Pacquiao, Mayweather will have the weight advantage, and this obviously is going to be a big positive for him.
Fighting a guy as small as Pacquiao could turn the fight into a route with Mayweather roughing Pacquiao up, hitting him at will, and knocking him out late in the fight.
“Mayweather fighting guys 20 pounds over his weight, and he beating their [backsides],” Floyd Sr said via Dontae’s Boxing Nation. “What the hell you think he’s going to do to Pacquiao?”
Floyd Sr brings up a very good point. If Mayweather has become accustomed to fighting guys that outweigh him by 20 pounds, it’s going to make things a lot easier when he gets in the ring against someone that he’ll likely have a 5 to 7 pound weight advantage over him.
That’s going to give Mayweather a real advantage in the fight. With Pacquiao it won’t be anything different than what he’s already been experiencing, because he’s been facing guys that are bigger than him for quite some time. However, Pacquiao also hasn’t faced anyone nearly as good as Mayweather.
Pacquiao can thank his promoter Bob Arum for that, because he’s the guy that decided to match him against Chris Algieri, Tim Bradley and Brandon Rios in his last three fights. None of those guys are considered to be the top welterweights in the division.
Bradley and Rios are ranked high at 147, but they clearly don’t compare against the best welterweights like Keith Thurman, Marcos Maidana, Amir Khan and Mayweather. Arum has done Pacquiao a big favor in turning his career around after his loss to Juan Manuel Marquez., But you have to admit that the match-making that Arum has been doing for Pacquiao has been on the soft side with him putting him in with guys that he can beat instead of guys that had a chance of beating him.
Recently Pacquiao has talked about how he’s working on solving and penetrating Mayweather’s defensive armor. Floyd Sr doesn’t see how Pacquiao is going to be able to do that because he sees it as taking too long to figure out how to use the shoulder roll defense, and obviously it takes just as long to figure out how to solve it.
“He can do the shoulder roll,” Floyd Sr said. “He can try all that [expletive] all he wants to. If he tries to roll like that, he’s going to get hit every time. In two months, you don’t learn that. That takes years and years. I’ve been there. I done it.”
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I don’t expect Pacquiao to learn how to break the May-Vinci code, especially with him being trained by Freddie Roach. Pacquiao is going to be just as confused with Mayweather’s fighting style as he would have been before he started training camp.
The guys that Roach has brought in as sparring partners won’t be any help for Pacquiao, because they won’t know how to use the shoulder roll defense like Mayweather, because they’ll be using it for the first time.
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