By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Sr. still sees a potential fight between his son boxing star Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao as a sick mismatch if the fight ever happens because of Floyd Jr’s skill and size advantage over the Filipino. Mayweather Sr. just doesn’t see it a competitive fight whatsoever, pointing out how easily Floyd Jr. defeated former World Boxing Organization champion Juan Manuel Marquez while Pacquiao has won two controversial decisions against him.
Floyd Sr. said to Fighthype.com “I won’t ever change my mind on that. That’s a mismatch…if they know anything about boxing, they know that’s a mismatch.”
I think Floyd Sr. is probably right in his assessment of that theoretical fight. It would be a mismatch especially with the way that Pacquiao is fighting at this late stage in his career with him only fighting hard for small periods of every round. Mayweather’s boxing skills would make it all but impossible for Pacquiao to beat Mayweather now. Pacquiao’s best chance of beating Mayweather was back in 2009 early in the year when Mayweather was coming off of a year long layoff and Pacquiao was still at the top of his game. Pacquiao might have had a chance at winning if he could have gotten the fight then, but the two guys didn’t really get serious about fighting each other until early 2010. And we know what happened there.
Pacquiao didn’t agree to the full testing for performance enhancing drugs that Mayweather wanted, and Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum quickly put him in with one of his own Top Rank stable fighters Joshua Clottey instead of sticking it out to try and work through the sticking point in the negotiations. In hindsight, that was a big mistake on Arum’s part in moving on because Mayweather had agreed to the 50-50 financial split.
But who knows what Arum was thinking at the time? Maybe he thought that it would be easy to pick up the negotiations later on and put the fight together after he’d exhausted all the possible Top Rank stable fighters for Pacquiao to fight or it could be that Arum was never really interested in having Pacquiao fight Mayweather to begin with and was looking for any excuse to not make the fight.
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