Posted on 05/05/2015 7:29:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yeah you’re right. I was hoping Pacquiao could throw enough to get Mayweather to engage a la Maidonna. But he needed two arms to do that. I’m sending Manny a bill for a hundred bucks.
I would have loved to see this fight 5 years ago..........
I didn't have any doubts that Mayweather would win but I was still praying for Manny........For what he's done for the Philippines, he's a class act.
In my opinion, this fight had to take place since there is no way he would he have been able to undergo surgery and recover and train for a fight against Mayweather a year from now. He's too old and RC surgery is no guarantee of full recovery. I play ball with a guy who has had 4 surgeries on his throwing arm and it's still not right.......
Tyson was awesome in his prime and under Gus D’Amato who kept him in line. When Don King moved in that was the beginning of the end for Tyson.
If you want to see see a 185lb version of Tyson look at Floyd Patterson fights. Its all Gus D’Amato training and technique.
Duran/Leonard, Nov. 1980........no mas!
I never liked the ballet dancer Leonard and was happy to see him lose to Duran in their first fight where Leonard actually tried to box like a fighter......
When I was a young man I had a torn rotator cuff when I worked in a warehouse and never missed a day. Sure it hurt and sure I got paid a little above minimum wage, but I had bills to pay. How long was the fight and how much did he get paid? My heart bleeds.
Pac needs to resign from boxing for lying about his injury.
He may have torn his rotator cuff a few weeks before the bout, but that doesn’t explain why BOTH of his fists were so slow compared his punching brilliance of old, nor why he lost 3 of his previous 6 fights (that, before the injury).
The fact is, Mayfly ran from any prospect of a fight with Manny Pacquiao for five years straight and only agreed to this fight when it was clear the PacMan had lost a step.
Tyson was exactly correct before the fight when he said, “Mayweather is a scared little man.”
Mayweather’s fights are always a big yawn. You can accurately and completely summarize his fighting style thusly: running, clinching, leaning on the back of his opponents’ necks when the opportunity presents itself and, low blows when things aren’t going his way.
I’ve read the articles about this fight and have had no interest in watching it, nor will I, even next weekend when it will be aired free of charge.
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