Roger Mayweather: “I Know he [Floyd] can knock him [Pacquiao] out”

By Boxing News - 07/06/2010 - Comments

Image: Roger Mayweather: “I Know he [Floyd] can knock him [Pacquiao] out”By Dave Lahr: Roger Mayweather, the trainer and uncle of unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr., thinks that Floyd can knock out World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao when/if they fight in November. Roger also thinks that Floyd deserves a 60-40 split of the revenue for the proposed November 13th fight. However, Roger also likes the idea of the winner of the fight getting 60% and the loser 40%. However, that’s something that Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum won’t likely agree to unfortunately.

In an interview on East Side Boxing’s On the Ropes Radio program, this is what Roger had to say about Mayweather stopping Pacquiao: “I know he [Floyd] can knock him [Pacquiao] out – period. Once Pacquiao takes that test [referring the random blood test for performance enhancing drugs], he’s going to get a beating he ain’t never had before because there ain’t no way in the world a guy [Pacquiao] swinging that wild is coming after my nephew, period.”

I have to agree with Roger. I can’t see Pacquiao beating a talented fighter like Mayweather with his wild charging style of fighting. In looking at how wide open Pacquiao was in his last fight against Joshua Clottey in March, Mayweather would have beaten the stuffing out of Pacquiao the way he left himself open all night long in that fight. As it is, Clottey had Pacquiao’s face looking all beat up by the end of the fight, and Clottey hardly threw any punches.

I can only imagine what a busy fighter like Mayweather would do to Pacquiao if he bum rushed Mayweather all night long like he did with Clottey. And by the way, that was a horrible fight. Freddie Roach said over and over again what a good opponent Clottey would be. I wonder if that was code for Roach meaning that he was going to be another easy mark for Pacquiao. I could have told you that Clottey was going to be a punching bag. You just watch a couple of his fights and you can see it for it is. But, yeah, I agree with Roger – Floyd would knock Pacquiao clean out if they were to fight.

Speaking about the 60-40 split, Roger said “I think it should be 60-40. Why shouldn’t it be? Floyd ain’t never lost. This mo’s [Pacquiao] been knocked out twice. He’s been knocked out twice when he was 105 pounds, so why would they come to the same agreement about the same amount of money? Floyd ain’t never tasted defeat.” Roger is so right. Mayweather is unbeaten and never tasted defeat. He’s not one of those fighters with a built up record based on fluff wins.

Mayweather has beaten the best fighters his entire career. He didn’t take on over-the-hill fighters or ones that were weight drained. Mayweather has show that he’s a real talent. I could understand Pacquiao wanting a 50-50 deal if he was unbeaten like Mayweather is, but the fact of the matter is he’s not unbeaten. Pacquiao has lost several times, and struggled with Juan Manuel Marquez, a common opponent, and someone Mayweather just finished dominating in a 12 round decision last September. That alone is pretty significant. And when you add in Mayweather’s better pay-per-view numbers recently, you can only come to one conclusion that he deserves the bigger cut of the revenue. I think 60-40 is more than fair.



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