By Esteban Garduno: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. saw last Saturday night’s match between Joshua Clottey and Manny Pacquiao and he was not impressed in the least, saying in an article at Cagereport.net, “Personally, I think Pacquiao got exposed in that fight for being one-dimensional. You can have all [the] offence ability in the world but with no defense you’re not going to last long against a good counter puncher such as myself. Look at the way Clottey was getting through, each time he threw something it landed. Then at the end Pacquiao’s was all busted up, when’s the last time you’ve seen my face all messed up like that? That’s the difference between an amateur and a true pound for pound boxer.”

Ouch! That must have hurt. But I think I agree with what Mayweather says about Pacquiao looking one-dimensional and showing little ability to block punches. Clottey pretty much was able to hit Pacquiao without almost every punch he threw on Saturday night. I can’t remember seeing a fighter having the same kind of accuracy that Clottey had in landing punches against Pacquiao.

And Pacquiao’s face was all messed up at the end. If you were to look at Pacquiao and Clottey’s faces, I’d be willing to bet that most people would assume that Pacquiao was the loser if they hadn’t seen the fight. Pacquiao’s face was red and swollen afterwards, and he looked totally exhausted. He looked tired even early in the fight. Maybe it’s the weight that Pacquiao has been packing on his small frame. He looked sluggish, slow and was gasping for breath even after the 3rd round.

Mayweather continues, “I think Pacquiao gave the fans a boring fight, he was punching his arms for all 12 rounds. At least when you watch Floyd Mayweather you know you’ll be seeing non-stop action for 30 minutes straight and that’s what you’ll see on May 1st.“

Mayweather is very accurate with his punches and would be finding a way through Clottey’s guard had that been him in the ring with Clottey instead of Pacquiao. What Pacquiao seemed to make a mistake with was just throwing punches without really placing them? He seemed like his total focus was just to throw a lot of punches, but not trying to get them in the correct places all the time.

Mayweather would be more like a surgeon compared to Pacquiao, who obviously used the shotgun approach to the fight by throwing massive amounts of punches hoping some of them would get through Clottey’s guard. All total, Pacquiao threw over 1200 punches during the fight. That’s an incredible number but when you’re missing a lot of those shots, what good is it?

Mayweather then chimes in about the attendance numbers for the Pacquiao fight, saying “The attendance numbers ain’t nothing compared to what I have drawn in the past or what I would have drawn if that was me in the ring that night, everybody knows that. Half those seats were empty in the back and people say Pacquiao is a draw? Let’s not forget who generated a revenue of 2.5 million dollars in one fight alone. The only reason why he’s popular is because he’s an ethnic minority and from the Philippines so it’s something special. If he was from Africa he would be just another boxer.”

Pacquiao has a huge following among Filipino fans in the United States and can count on many of them to come see his fights or purchase them on PPV. With the huge amount of Filipino fans living in the U.S. and interesting in watching all of Pacquiao’s fights, he has a huge fan base built in for every fight that takes place in the United States. Mayweather obviously can’t count on that same kind of support among African Americans. Many of them know who he is, but he doesn’t have the same kind of following that Pacquiao has.