Pacquiao: I can easily beat Floyd Mayweather!

By Boxing News - 01/20/2015 - Comments

By Chris Williams: In what some boxing fans may see as a sign of desperation on Manny Pacquiao’s part, he took to twitter today to send a series of tweets to Floyd Mayweather Jr, telling the American superstar that he feels he could beat him with ease and that he would pull off a huge upset win if the two of them face each other this year.

Pacquiao recently gave Mayweather a deadline until the end of the month to agree to fight him otherwise he’ll be moving on.

Today’s tweets may be seen as Pacquiao having second thoughts about pulling out of the negotiations, because it seems like the 36-year-old badly wants the Mayweather fight.

“If you really care about the fans, you will fight. If you care about yourself, you won’t fight,” Pacquiao said on his twitter today about Mayweather. “I can easily beat Floyd Mayweather, I believe that. Everyone had me as a big underdog to Oscar DeLa Hoya too. If Floyd Mayweather fights me boxing will get an even bigger upset victory,” Pacquiao said.

In reading these tweets from Pacquiao, he sounds desperate for the fight. If he truly wants the fight with Mayweather, then he needs to forget about the deadline that he gave Mayweather and sit back and give whatever Mayweather is asking for in order to get the fight made.

If he’s only hearing silence from Mayweather’s end, then Pacquiao needs to have Arum sweeten the deal by giving Mayweather a bigger cut of the purse. Pacquiao needs to do whatever he can to make the fight happen, because this could very well be his last chance of getting Mayweather into the ring. The deadline thing was a poor decision on Pacquiao’s part, because that just showed that he’s not patient to sit through the haggling that goes on during normal negotiations.

I think Mayweather will have a lot to say about Pacquiao’s comments about him being able to easily beat him. If Pacquiao couldn’t prove that he was better than Mexican warrior Juan Manuel Marquez in their four fights together, then it doesn’t seem to realistic that Pacquiao would be able to handle a much better fighter than Marquez in the form of Mayweather. We already saw what happened to Marquez when he faced Mayweather in his prime in 2009. Marquez still had a lot left in the tank at that time in his career, and Mayweather totally schooled him for 12 rounds.



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