By Babatis Banda: For the skeptics, and all those that could not picture the fight happening, here it is. In a few days’ time we will be discussing the outcome. I can understand why some sections got frustrated and so believed this fight would never ever happen. There were a lot of reasons, some valid, and some very laughable why this fight took so long to be made, but let me not drag everyone back to the arguments that were clearly and mostly exhausted over a period of five good years.
We know that this fight is the richest in history, that there are too many economic interests of which many people may not be aware of.
This fight does not only involve the two fighters and their camps, it is an event of such economic magnitude that nobody can even dream of sabotaging this event at the stage it has reached. For Freddie to suggest that Mayweather may pull-out of it is really mind boggling.
I am not sure if Freddie implies that Mayweather is so scared to a point that he would opt to pull-out, or that he may be carrying injuries or something that may prevent him from fighting Pacquiao. It is difficult to really place Freddie’s reasoning here. I don’t really know if Freddie and anybody out there really would believe that Mayweather is scared of Pacquiao who went all twelve with Bradley twice and a nonentity in Algerie with cosmetic knock-downs that now seem like an advert for the Mayweather fight. Come-on, if you hear Algerie speak, it is as if he really had a name and as if Pacquiao was a monster out of this world. I doubt this is just a coincident.
Freddie is often outspoken before many of Manny’s fights. He talks always of how good Pacquiao is looking, how the fight won’t last the distance or how Pacquiao has re-discovered his once lethal knock-out formula. I expect a coach to really say something about his guy, but incoherence is definitely not in his camp’s interest. To a clear head, what Freddie has been talking about the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, points to some serious panic in Pacquiao’s camp.
It is like they were caught unawares just like Arum was caught unaware when Floyd’s imprisonment was delayed to allow him fight Pacquiao. I see the same kind of chaos here and Roach can’t really come to terms with what is about to happen on May2.
I am not shy to state the inevitable. You may not like it, but this fight will disappoint many people because it won’t be competitive at all. I don’t have to say who wins, you know who is going to win.
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