By Peter Wells: I have just read the poll vote in Boxing Monthly’s latest magazine on who’ll win out of Pacquiao-Mayweather. In the end it was very surprising to see the final score but all 38 of the voters gave good reasons.
Carl Froch said that, “Floyd Mayweather beats him 10 times out of 10. He’s too technically proficient and his defensive skills and reflexes are too good”. He also added, “Mayweather’s the main man and, if I can get decent odds, I’ll bet my house on it”. That isn’t a great thing to say in a fight like this maybe in a fight where you know who’ll win, but he does sound very confident. Bert Sugar said Pacquiao on points because of the better opponents that Pacquiao has fought. Jim McDonnell, Buddy McGirt and Johnny Nelson all went with Mayweather. Nelson believes Floyd could stop Manny by keep on hitting and holding ruining Pacquiao’s game plan. Frank Maloney, Ken Buchanan, Don Majeski all go for Pacquiao the first two going for a stoppage.
Also current fighters Antonio Tarver and Tim Bradley go with Mayweather, but Tarver says that Floyd can’t make any mistakes, while Bradley says it’ll be an easy fight. Jim Watt said, “I think Pacquiao will discover it’s difficult to find a rhythm when nothing’s landing.” Which is very true, if you’re not landing it’s almost impossible to get a rhythm going. Also former Hatton trainer Billy Graham goes for Floyd. The super six tourney leader Arthur Abraham also goes with Mayweather.
Angelo Dundee believes that Mayweather back off to the ropes won’t work against Pacquiao and Dominic Ingle, Dean Powell, Marco Huck, Alan Minter, former Pacquiao opponent David Diaz and Paul Hodkinson all go with Pacquiao.
While Frank Warren, Nick Charles, Barry Hearn, Richie Woodhall, Duke McKenzie, Brendan Ingle, Ronnie Shields, Jimmy Tibbs, Colin McMillan and Alex Arthur all go for Floyd. The main vote came from Ricky Hatton who predicts that Floyd will take it on points as Floyd beat a better Ricky Hatton than Manny, also that Mayweather can pace a fight to how he likes it.
The final result was 25-13 Mayweather, but most predicted the fight to go the distance. It was very good to read so if you get a chance then it’s a good read and gives you plenty of reasons to decide what you think will happen.
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