By Chris Williams: In what appears to be a response to the comment Floyd Mayweather Jr. made about Manny Pacquiao being a “sore loser” and a “coward” with the way he made injury excuses after his loss to him on May 2nd, Pacquiao says that the one who ran from him is a coward. Mayweather actually didn’t run from Pacquiao, so it’s unclear how he would get that impression.
Mayweather did use a little bit of lateral movement to get off the ropes each time he would purposefully back up to that spot, but he wasn’t moving much from the center of the ring to get out of the way of Pacquiao’s shots.
It was too easy for Mayweather to miss simply by leaning backwards to keep from getting hit by the 36-year-old Filipino fighter.
“Let’s not fan the fire that he’s saying I’m a coward,” Pacquiao said via Philstar.com. “The one who ran is the coward.”
What did Pacquiao expect Mayweather to do? Did he expect him to stay with his back against the ropes each time and just wait until Pacquiao got tired of throwing punches like we saw with Tim Bradley in his fight against Pacquiao in their rematch in 2014? Mayweather was too smart for him to fight like that, and it’s Pacquiao’s problem or him not being able to cut off the ring and force Mayweather into a brawl the same way that WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin had done against Willie Monroe Jr. last Saturday night.
Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach had been bragging ahead of time how he’d trained Pacquiao how to cut off the ring on his opponents, but he wasn’t able to do that. Mayweather really didn’t move much in the fight for Pacquiao to need to cut off the ring. It was more of a case of Pacquiao fighting too timidly to put enough pressure on Mayweather to win.
Mayweather says he won’t bother fighting Pacquiao again because he sees him as a sore loser. That means Pacquiao will have to live with his loss to Mayweather and hopefully forget about it in time. It would be sad if Pacquiao keeps reliving the fight for the remainder of his days on earth rather than forgetting about it. In hindsight, Pacquiao could have postponed the fight so that his injured shoulder could be repaired and be healed for the fight, but he didn’t do it. That was a decision Pacquiao made and it’s too late to change what happened.
“It’s not my fault that I was able to alleviate anything that he was trying to do,” Mayweather said via Fighthype.com. “What I did was whatever your best attribute is, I take it away from you, I disarm you, and that’s what I do. I was the better man/ Please don’t be mad at me. I’m the winner. Pacquiao, I wish you nothing but the best; keep up the good work.”
Yes, Mayweather is right. Pacquiao lost to the better may on May 2nd. Mayweather disarmed the Filipino fighter and left him in a helpless state where all he could do is hop around on the outside doing nothing all night long.
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