By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (47-0, 26 KOs) pointed out yesterday during his conference call that he’s not stressing out about his May 2nd fight against Manny Pacquiao (57-5-2, 38 KOs) because he sees the fight as just any other fight during his career. Pacquiao is just another fighter that he’s going to be look to beat so that he can add his pelt to his growing collection.

Mayweather says he’s not going to get caught up in getting in the gutter with Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach, who has been tossing stones at him since the fight was signed. Mayweather feels that there’s no upside in looking to better 55-year-old Roach, who is suffering from Parkinson disease, because it would make him look bad in the process. For that reason, Mayweather says he’s staying above the fray and taking the high road in the lead up to this mega-fight on May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight is going to make Mayweather a very, very rich man beyond what most people can even dream of. Mayweather is already fabulously rich, but this is just going to make him even more so. Mayweather will be bringing in well over $100 million for this fight. If the fight does well, we could see Mayweather and Pacquiao doing it again in September with both of them going to the bank to make huge deposits.

“I don’t really go crazy about it because it’s just a fight to me,” Mayweather said via RingTV.com. “I know it’s the biggest fight in boxing history but I can’t approach it like that because I’m not going to put any unnecessary pressure on myself. I’m just going to be the best Floyd Mayweather I can be on May 2.”

Mayweather makes good points here. Why get worked up over a fighter who pretty much brings the same high pressure fighting style to the table that we’ve seen in past Mayweather opponents like Arturo Gatti, Marcos Maidana and Carlos Baldomir? We’ve seen Mayweather clown those guys and easily beat them in the past even while fighting their fights. If you remember the pre-fight hype for the Mayweather-Gatti fight in 2005, many boxing fans felt that Gatti would wear Mayweather down with his pressure. Instead it turned out to be a horrible mismatch with Mayweather nailing Gatti each time he would come charging forward. Even with Gatti trying to use the same Pacquiao-like angles for his attacks, Mayweather was deadly accurate in slicing him up with shots and just making a mess of him. In the case of Pacquiao, Mayweather has been there and done that before. He’s seen the same style and conquered it already. Pacquiao is a shorter version of Gatti and this likely will turn out to be as one-sided as that fight was. Pacquiao is in the same boat at Mayweather’s past opponents have been in. Like the other guys Mayweather has beaten, Pacquiao is going to have to go on the attack the entire fight for him to have a chance of winning, and that’s not likely to end too good for him. No one does well in attacking Mayweather, no one. It’s same thing that has played out in all 47 of Mayweather’s previous fights. We’ve got a scenario of a smaller fighter needing to attack a taller, more talented fighter who thrives on facing guys that come at him. It’s a classic fight for Mayweather, which is why he’s not worried about it because Pacquiao fits the mold of Mayweather’s previous 47 victims. Besides that, Pacquiao hasn’t done anything to change his same fighting style that he’s been using for the past 20 years.

“I did all of that loud talking to get to a certain point in my career and it was a brilliant game plan,” Mayweather said. “But I’m not going to speak negatively about Freddie Roach. I just don’t have to do that at all. If I say something about him they’ll say Floyd is picking on someone who’s not 100-percent healthy. He’s trying to make this a God vs. Devil type of fight and the best way for me to handle this situation is not to say anything at all. He’s entitled to say what he wants to say but his fighter isn’t speaking like that.”

Roach was really going for the throat when he described the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather fight as a good vs. evil type situation. He was taking it out of the realm of sports and going into another area that he didn’t need to. The fight is big enough as it is without hyperbolic comments from Roach in him trying to pump interest in the fight. Mayweather wouldn’t come off if he were to start trash talking Roach and making him as the focus of the upcoming fight instead of Pacquiao. Besides that, I don’t think any boxing fans want to see Mayweather getting caught up in a war of words with Roach on a daily basis because it would be totally boring. Fans want to hear what Mayweather has to say about Pacquiao, not Roach. Pacquiao’s trainer has kind of wormed his way into the limelight by doing most of the talking compared to Mayweather and his team.

Even Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum has done his fair share of talking about the fight and how his fighter Pacquiao will defeat Mayweather. It’s too bad that the talking doesn’t guarantee victory because Pacquiao would have won the fight many times over if it were that kind of situation. His team has clearly done most of the talking for this fight while Mayweather’s team has shown class by staying silent and above it all in noble way. To be fair, Pacquiao hasn’t done that much talking for this fight. He’s mostly just stayed silent as well and let Roach and Arum do the talking for him. Pacquiao was giving interviews earlier, but he stopped doing a lot of talking in order to focus on his training. Whether or not that will help him for this fight is unknown. We’re going to see very soon.