Manny Pacquiao

By Chris Williams: It’s increasingly clear that Manny Pacquiao’s game plan for the Floyd Mayweather Jr fight is to throw a ton of punches and hope that Mayweather can’t defend against them all when they get inside the ring on May 2nd.

The high punch volume attack is an idea that Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach dreamed up six years ago when he first started talking about which game plan would work against Mayweather. Now six years later boxing fans will get a chance to see for themselves whether Roach knows what he’s talking about or if he’s merely deluded like he was when he was Oscar De La Hoya’s trainer for the Mayweather fight in 2007. Roach’s game plan didn’t work in that fight, and it’s quite possible that his game plan will come up empty for the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.

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By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s helper/assistant manager Buboy Fernandez is daring Floyd Mayweather Jr to fight Pacquiao in a toe-to-toe manner in their bout on May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Buboy, who gushes about how hard Pacquiao is working out for the fight, likes Pacquiao’s chances of beating Mayweather if he can get him to fight in a brawling manner rather than by using his boxing skills.

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By Chris Williams: While a lot of boxing fans are still unsure precisely how the Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Manny Pacquiao fight will play out, Mayweather’s trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. sees Pacquiao as potentially quitting on his knees on May 2nd when the going gets tough for him.

Floyd Sr. thinks Pacquiao will go into the retreat mode when he takes some big shots, and then possibly take a knee to escape the punishment when it gets too bad.

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(Photo credit: Esther Lin: Mayweather vs. Pacquiao) By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao figures that he’ll be teaching Floyd Mayweather Jr a lesson when he fights him next month in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao wants to teach Mayweather how to be a good person, and how to be humble.

Just how precisely Pacquiao plans on doing that is unknown. If his idea is to model the behavior that he feels he wants from Mayweather if he beats him, then I’m not so sure that it’s going to work. If Pacquiao is victorious on May 2nd, he’s going to be pulled in every direction by the media, and asked a million questions.

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By Chris Williams: Former heavyweight title challenger Gerry Cooney is picking WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. to top Manny Pacquiao in their mega-money unification fight on May 2nd. Cooney, 58, says he’s a big fan of Pacquiao, but he just doesn’t think he can win the fight due to the talent that Mayweather has going for him.

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by J.R. Leon: Before I go into how Manny Pacquiao can beat pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr., let me say I expect Floyd to win via 12rd. unanimous decision. There, I said it. No need to send any death threats. This is not a post hating on Floyd, this is a post trying to figure out a way for Manny to beat him(easier said than done).

Now if you were to listen to Oscar De La Hoya, Robert Garcia or even many boxing fans, you would think that the only way to win against Floyd is to use constant aggression and unrelenting pressure. This is the so called “blueprint” that De La Hoya said he left for others to follow, even though everyone who has used it has lost decisively – including Marcos Maidana on their first fight, which for some odd reason some people think he won.

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Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is convinced that Manny for the first time in his career has developed genuine hatred for his opponent as the showdown with undefeated Floyd Mayweather quickly approaches. Roach points out Mayweather’s history with domestic violence as a major factor in why the “Pacman” is eager to start throwing punches at Mayweather.

“Manny is really against domestic violence,” Roach said to USA Today, “It is a big issue maybe in the Philippines for him and being a congressman he can control some of that stuff. That is a big plus for me that Manny does not like the guy, I think the killer instinct is going to come back a lot faster.”

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