Pacman will be gobbled up by the Ghost [Mayweather]

By Boxing News - 11/16/2009 - Comments

pac673423By Daniel Cross: For the past year or so, the question of who would be the victor in a battle between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao has been gaining pace among boxing fans and now suddenly for the first time the answer is realistically on the horizon. In 2010 we will no doubt see a superfight to define the careers of two of boxing greatest fighters.

So the question is, who wins? The answer, unequivocally, Floyd “Money” Mayweather. Now I’ll explain why.

Anyone that’s ever played the arcade game PACMAN knows that sooner or later as you move up the levels, Pacman runs out of power pills and he succumbs to the quicker Ghost. And this by way of an analogy is what will happen to the incredible Manny Pacquiao.

I start my explanation by saying that I am a huge Manny Pacquiao fan. He has achieved greatness already by becoming a 7 weight world champion.

Pacman was already a fantastic champion before he started to move up to light welterweight and welterweight respectively but the last 3 fights he has proven he can take on anyone and beat them…almost. Looking over his past 3 fights with De La Hoya, Hatton and Cotto we have seen him able to come into the ring the smaller man and within 2 rounds of each of those fights show himself to be the stronger man regardless of size.

What he has done is nothing short of brilliant. However, when you break these 3 fights down it’s only really the Cotto fight that has any bearing on just how impressive he is. De La Hoya was drained to dangerous proportions & Hatton unfortunately was not in the same class. Cotto however represented a true welterweight fighter in his prime with good boxing skills to boot. Pacman simply destroyed him. Impressive a victory as it was, Cotto is not in the same class as Mayweather.

Floyd Mayweather Jr is a different prospect altogether. With Mayweather you do not have a boxer that can be duped in to trading with Pacman. As skilful as Mayweather is physically, so is his brain. He knows already how to beat Pacman, the same cannot be said for Manny Pacquiao over Floyd. I quote Mayweather when I say, “40 people had a game plan, 40 people failed”.

On Saturday night Pacquiao managed to draw Cotto into a trade off and the second Cotto nibbled at that bait he was on Pacquiao’s hook….the left hook! Mayweather will not take that bait, he will not be drawn in to going toe to toe with Pacquiao. His nerve and calmness under pressure, no matter how intelligent that pressure is, is always super chilled.

So, we already know that Pacquiao will have to come forward against Mayweather and that is where the fight is lost in my opinion. Floyd is a lot quicker and more accurate than Cotto, Marquez, De La Hoya, Hatton and anyone that Pacman has ever fought and beaten or lost to.

I can see after 6 rounds Pacquiao being so frustrated at being picked off on the way in, that he opens up too much and Floyd K.O’s him in the later rounds.

Mayweather’s skills are unmatched in boxing today both defensively and in attack. He made Juan Manuel Marquez look like a complete amateur. Inside the ring Floyd is a ghost, plain and simple. He is boxing in its purest form, hitting but not getting hit. Freddie Roach already had a crack at Floyd via De la Hoya and failed, I don’t see it being any different this time. Too many people look at the Mayweather v Castillo fight as a blueprint on how to beat him and that is where they are going wrong….Floyd won that fight as the record states and every boxer has an off night at least once in their career. That was Floyds off night and he still won. For Pacman to win, Floyd has to have another off night and Pacman needs to have the night of his life. The only way for Pacman to beat Floyd is to try and get in and out quickly to get up on points and make Floyd chase him. Easier said than done, he has to move in and out without getting spanked which is unlikely. As previously stated I see a Mayweather K.O in the later rounds.

One final point, lets remember where Mayweather came from, down in the featherweights….he has done the same as Pacman but doesn’t get half the respect. That’s only because of his public persona. If he was more humble and more like Pacman in the way he conducts himself he would not have any critics on how he fights in the ring.

Saying all this, a fight between to amazing fighters like this can still go either way, that’s what makes boxing so incredible to watch and that’s why we all love to talk about it so much. No doubt my article will provoke some opinion and that’s great. Happy talking.



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