Mayweather: I knew I had him from round one

By Boxing News - 05/03/2015 - Comments

1-04-4By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he already had Manny Pacquiao analyzed and figured out by round one last night in his 12 round unanimous decision win over the Filipino fighter in their expensive fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

While two of the judges scored the fight close by the scores of 116-112 and 116-112, the other judge had it by a lopsided score of 118-110, and a lot of boxing fans agreed with that score. But Mayweather says he already knew what Pacquiao had after the 1st round and he saw the fight as basically won at that point.

There may have been some apprehension from Mayweather before the fight started, but once he got a good picture of what Pacquiao was bringing to the table in the 1st round, Mayweather was no longer worried.

“I knew I had him [Pacquiao] from round one,” Mayweather said at last Saturday night’s post-fight press conference. “I came out there and I wanted to see certain moves. I wanted to see his jab, because if he used his jab I was going to counter him. If he used his jab I was going to slide over and counter him with a right hand. Everything is a calculated move. I’m 10 steps ahead of any fighter. I was a born winner. I’m going to die a winner. Win, win, win, that’s all I know.”

To be sure, the fight looked like it was pretty much over at the end of the 1st round with the way that Mayweather kept tagging Pacquiao with straight right hands to the head. The shots landed cleanly each time, and by the end of the round, Pacquiao was no longer coming forward like he’d done earlier. At that point Mayweather had taught Pacquiao what not to do, and the fight was essentially over because Pacquiao looked too timid to go on the attack the way he needed to in order to win the fight.

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With Pacquiao unable to use his side to side movement that he’d employed from the start of his career in 1995 to 2009, Pacquiao has no chance to win because all he could do was come straight up the middle directly into Mayweather’s right hands. Pacquiao’s legs looked stiff and heavy, and he was unable to use any kind of side to side movement that he’d seen from 1995-2009. Pacquiao was plodding flat-footed the entire fight. He wasn’t helped that he came into the fight at a career high weight of 152 pounds last night, and that extra weight made Pacquiao sluggish slow, and easy to hit.



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