By Dave Lahr: It’s sad that the great Floyd Mayweather Jr. still isn’t getting the credit and the adoration that he deserves after beating talented fighters like Shane Mosley, Ricky Hatton and Oscar De La Hoya, to name just a few of the many fighters that Mayweather schooled in his impressive career. But even thought Mayweather shown himself to be the best fighter in boxing over and over again, it looks like he’s still not getting the credit or respect he deserves from the boxing public.
I think Mayweather is going to whip Manny Pacquiao’s backside in front of a worldwide audience to convince boxing fans that Mayweather is the best fighter in the world. I can’t wait until Mayweather puts a clinic on beating Pacquiao and making him look like a schoolboy taking a play yard whipping. And there isn’t a thing that Pacquiao or his trainer Freddie Roach will be able to do about it. Roach can plan all he wants to try to come up with a scheme to beat Mayweather.
It’s not going to work no matter what Roach devises. You have to have immense talent to beat a fighter like Mayweather, and I think Pacquiao is a little short on that. Mayweather is going to shut some yaps when he gets in the ring with Pacquiao by whipping the stuffing out of him.
Pacquiao and Roach will probably come up with the same ploy that they used on Joshua Clottey in Manny’s March fight. In other words, Roach is going to have Pacquiao pressure Mayweather and try to overwhelm him with punches rained in from every direction. That isn’t going to work. I never seen such a waste of punches in my life. Pacquiao threw like 1200 punches and missed almost all of them as he hit gloves and air all night long, even when Clottey standing directly in front of him.
Just mindlessly throwing punches isn’t going to help Pacquiao beat Mayweather one bit. All it’s going to do is leave a million areas for Mayweather to counter Pacquiao and bust up his face, twist his nose, cut up his eyes and get his lips swelling twice their normal size. I can just see it. Pacquiao runs out trying to throw punches without even aiming them.
Mayweather, seeing the crude and primitive game plan that Pacquiao is using, will be nailing Pacquiao with repeated short punches to the head. The shots will whiplash Pacquiao’s head every which way. Instead of abandoning his game plan, Pacquiao will stick to trying to pressure Mayweather and will keep getting drilled with deadly accurate shots that will start to distort Pacquiao’s features before long.
Roach won’t know what to do. When he realizes things are quickly falling apart, Roach will start barking orders a mile a minute at Pacquiao, sending him into mental overload. It won’t matter even if Pacquiao did understand what the heck Roach is jabbering about. He won’t have the ability to make sense of it all and apply what Roach is spitting out.
Meanwhile, Mayweather will be building up a huge lead in the fight, and turning Pacquiao’s head into a swollen mass of ugly red. Since this will be the biggest fight of all time, there’s no way the referee will step in to save Pacquiao from taking a senseless beating.
Instead, he’ll lead nature take it’s course and allow the one-sided slaughter to continue. My guess is Pacquiao will hit the deck by the 8th, and lay there in a beaten pile of flesh. Roach will come over and drag Pacquiao by one arm almost like a doll to his corner while mumbling “the horror, the horror.”
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