Mayweather defeats Pacquiao

By Boxing News - 05/02/2015 - Comments

pacmay2By Chris Williams: As expected, WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) was much too good for the smaller, less skilled WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs) on Saturday night in beating the Filipino fighter by a 12 round unanimous decision at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The final judges’ scores were 118-110, 116-112 and 116-112. I personally scored the fight 118-110. I had Pacquiao only winning three rounds, and really only two rounds. One of the rounds I gave Pacquiao was a round that could have done either way.

Pacquiao was caught again and again by Mayweather’s right hands while attempting to bum rush him. It didn’t work for Pacquiao. All the bragging that his trainer Freddie Roach had done before the fight about how Pacquiao was going to give Mayweather angles and overwhelm him with punches, it didn’t pan out like Roach said. What we discovered was something that I already knew.

Pacquiao can’t fight using angles anymore and he hasn’t been able to since his fight against Joshua Clottey in 2010. Ever since that fight, Pacquiao has been a straight ahead type fighter who comes directly at his opponents hoping to overwhelm them with shots. A crude style like that was never going to work against Mayweather.

Mayweather gave up a few rounds in the first 7 rounds of the fight, but after the 7th, Mayweather dominated the last five rounds of the fight by nailing Pacquiao with jabs and hard right hands to the head.

It was clear a long time ago that Pacquiao wasn’t in Mayweather’s league. We know that from the talk of how Shawn Porter and Amir Khan got the better of Pacquiao during sparring sessions. We also knew it from watching Pacquiao struggle against Juan Manuel Marquez in their four fights. Mayweather easily beat Marquez in 2009, so it was only obvious that he’d easily beat Pacquiao as well.

Overall, Pacquiao looked horrible tonight. He looked small, crude and without any ideas of what to do. If this was his so-called game plan that he and his trainer Roach has been talking about for the past two months, then I think it’s time that Pacquiao dump Roach and find a new trainer because this was an empty fight plan. There was no logic at all with this fight plan. Pacquiao was basically just staying on the outside doing very little. When he would attack, he charged straight up the middle and was caught by Mayweather’s jabs and right hands.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Pacquiao moves down to 140 after this fight because he’s clearly too small for welterweight. But even if Pacquiao does move down to light welterweight, I see him getting schooled by WBO 140 pound champion Terence Crawford. Pacquiao would be too small for even that guy. I think Pacquiao might be better off moving down to lightweight in order to try and extend his career because he’s not going to go far at 147 if he stays in that weight class.

Here are the undercard fight results:

Leo Santa Cruz UD 10 Jose Cayetano
Vasyl Lomachenko KO 9 Gamalier Rodriguez
Jesse Hart TKO 6 Mike Jimenez
Brad Solomon SD 10 Adrian Granados



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