Manny Pacquiao boxing news
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach has been repeating himself endlessly about Floyd Mayweather Jr’s legs being slower than they previously were, and that he’s now forced to trade shots with his opponents at this point in his career.
Roach thinks that Mayweather’s old legs won’t be able to carry him around the ring enough on May 2nd to elude Pacquiao’s incessant in and out attacks in their fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Chris Williams: Since the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight was first signed it seems that Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach have intentially been trying to get under the skin of Mayweather to get him to come out aggressively in their fight on May 2nd in order for him to slug with Pacquiao.
If Mayweather chooses to punch with Pacquiao, and fight his fight, it gives the 36-year-old Filipino fighter his best chance of winning. As much as you want to say this as an even fight, it’s really not even fight if Mayweather chooses to box the shorter Pacquiao for the entire 12 rounds when they get inside the ring at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Jose Espinoza: Recently Floyd Mayweather Sr. has been hinting on strategy that he is developing for his son to utilize in his bout against Manny Pacquiao.
The former boxer and current trainer of Floyd Mayweather Jr. has revealed that they plan to attack Pacquiao on the body. In a recent interview to theboxingvoice.com, Mayweather Sr. mentioned: “I ain’t gonna say where we gonna hit Pacquiao at but wherever he hit him, we’re planning on doing great bodily harm.”
By Raj Parmar: Boxing pound for pound number one fighter in the world Floyd Mayweather is adamant that he will retire from the sport this year after he concludes his fight with rival Manny Pacquiao and one more fight in September. He cites his reason of walking away due to his growing disenchantment with the sport.
“I’m pretty much done with all this, it’s not fun like it was back then,” Floyd stated during his media workout yesterday, “It’s business now. I don’t really enjoy it any longer.”
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Freddie Roach: “Marciano’s Record Will Be Safe!”
After hearing how late Mayweather was for his own media workout, the seven-time Trainer of the Year offered his own audit of Manny’s next opponent.
“I am so glad that Mayweather is big on Shots [the social network app. Mayweather uses] because he is going to be taking a lot of them from Manny on May 2,” said Roach, one of the many bon mots he served on Tuesday after Manny’s training session which included 12 rounds of sparring.
By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. is proud of his ability to make adjustments in the course of his fights during each and every round if needed. It’s his ability to make adjustments that has helped him go 47-0 as a pro, and rise to the top of the boxing world as the No.1 fighter pound-for-pound.
Mayweather doesn’t know if Pacquiao has the ability to make adjustments, and he sees the Filipino star as having a much different fighting style than his own. Mayweather says he fights with his brain by using his smarts, whereas Pacquiao is more reckless without thinking ahead like Mayweather does.
By Chris Williams: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. isn’t impressed with Manny Pacquiao as an opponent for his son WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (47-0, 26 KOs) at all. In fact, Floyd Sr. feels that Marcos Maidana (35-5, 31 KOs), Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero were tougher opponents for Mayweather than Pacquiao will prove to be.
Floyd Sr. sees Maidana as someone who would whip Pacquiao if the two of them fought each other. After watching Mayweather fight the bruising 165 pound Maidana twice, Floyd Sr. has a lot of respect for what Maidana is capable of doing inside the ring, especially against a much smaller opponent like the 5’6” Pacquiao.
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s chances of making it the full 12 rounds against Floyd Mayweather Jr on May 2nd are too good, according to Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe. He feels that the 36-year-old Pacquiao makes too many mistakes during his fights, and these mistakes are going to lead him to getting knocked out by Mayweather at some point along the way.
Ellberbe doesn’t see the fight as one where Pacquiao will get blasted out immediately by Mayweather, but nonetheless, Pacquiao will be going down on the canvas sooner or later.
By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr says he plans on fighting just once more in September of this year and then getting out of the game to go into retirement. This is obviously sad news for a lot of boxing fans if Mayweather decides to walk from the game, as there’s no one that can step in and take the baton from Mayweather to carry the sport for another 10 years.
Eleven-time world champion Floyd Mayweather and eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao will host separate media workouts as they prepare for the biggest prizefight in decades, the anticipated welterweight world championship unification bout Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, set to take place on Saturday, May 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, live on pay-per-view.