By Dave Lahr: Undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (41-0, 25 KO’s) has been turning a blind eye to WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s recent calls for a mega fight between the two fighters. Mayweather, who basically pursued a fight with Pacquiao until he was blue in the face several months ago, wants Pacquiao to agree to the full random blood testing that he is now asking for in his fights. However, like last time they attempted to negotiate, Pacquiao isn’t giving Mayweather want he wants in order for Mayweather to fight him.
Although Mayweather asked for a 14 day cut off for the random blood testing last time out, which by the way agreed upon by Pacquiao, he now is looking for blood testing all the way up until the fight happening. The chances of that happening are not likely in this lifetime. Pacquiao has agreed to Mayweather’s request for the last fight negotiations, but doesn’t seem interested at this time in going the whole route and agreeing to the full blood testing.
However, it’s really not bad of a deal, because by not fighting Mayweather, Pacquiao is probably saving himself from a lot of embarrassment in getting dominated by the talented Mayweather. We’ve already seen Mayweather completely dominate both Juan Manuel Marquez and Shane Mosley, two of the best fighters in all of boxing, as if they were nothing. Would it be any different if Mayweather was fighting Pacquiao? I doubt it. Pacquiao went life and death with Marquez two times in his career, whereas Mayweather beat Marquez like an old drum.
And I disagree with people who say that Marquez and Mosley were shot when Mayweather fought them. They may have looked shot, but that’s only because Mayweather made them look that way. He dominated them with his extraordinary boxing skills. So even if Mayweather never fights Pacquiao, he may actually be doing Pacquiao a huge favor by not fighting him. Pacquiao can now wrap up his career with a win over Antonio Margarito, Yuri Foreman or Miguel Cotto and sail off into a career in politics.
People will see him as a great one, because will in effect be ending his career with a handful of impressive wins over bigger fighters. No one would blame him for not fighting Mayweather, especially if he repeats over and over again that he agreed to the 14 day cut off, something that Mayweather wanted originally. Fans will never know that Mayweather changed the negotiations for the second negotiation period and hence they’ll probably blame Mayweather for the fight not happening rather than seeing it as a mix of reason.
I think Pacquiao would be hopelessly over his head if he fought Mayweather. Pacquiao is too wide open on defense and not accurate enough with his shots to compete with the ultra talented Mayweather. I think Pacquiao lose very badly, even worse than Mosley and Marquez, because he would keep going right at Mayweather all night long rather than backing off and trying to survive. I see this fight as like another Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton fight. Pacquiao would be eating a ton of leather all night long and would star suffering cuts before long over both eyes.
Pacquiao doesn’t look good when he’s cut and I could see the fight getting way out of hand early on until the referee was forced to step in and halt the fight to save Pacquiao from taking any more additional punishment. I see it as a total slaughter of epic proportions. Mayweather would be hyped because of the huge crowd and he would be coming forward, punishing the defensively wide open Pacquiao with shot after shot, while Pacquiao, with blood dripping into both eyes because of a series of cuts, just takes the punishment. Think of how Israel Vazquez looked last weekend against Rafael Marquez, and that’s how I see Pacquiao looking against Mayweather. This is why I think Mayweather is giving Pacquiao a huge gift by not fighting him.
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