mayweather pacquiao fight thread - Page 4

On May 01 2015 23:53 northsails wrote: Show nested quote + On May 01 2015 22:57 PuertoRican wrote: Some random guy on Sherdog mentioned that Mayweather sounded different last night on SportsCenter, and during his post weigh-in interview. Different, as in he might have a cold. Dunno though. sounds legit

I don't watch SportsCenter, but Mayweather's voice did sound different today. However, I just mark it up as sounding different due to cutting weight, which is common in MMA.

I won't have any bets on the fight, so I'm not following any of the news/media/forum posts leading up to the fight, aside from the weigh-in. The media are the one's going back and forth on stuff, the fighters are acting normal.

he sounded scared that's what. didn't you see the walk in? he almost looked scared as shit, didn't even hear Pac say thank you to his face lol
Anyway, just wait for the fight and watch how Pac destroys this guy. 1 more day

link to stream plz ?

On May 02 2015 02:41 FullBRing wrote: link to stream plz ?

You're 25 hours early. The main event won't start until 9pm PST/11:59 EST tomorrow night.

dhahhah cheers

Anyone wanna take my bet on Pokerstars?

my $10 on Pacquiao vs your $23 Mayweather, straight win.

We can escrow the cash to Daut or maybe drone or someone legit from LP?

Where can we stream it from?

offer is off, i got down enough

i dont follow boxing but how come these 2, almost 40 years old guys are the best? i mean isnt there a younger guy who is stronger and faster?

On May 02 2015 15:40 dnagardi wrote: i dont follow boxing but how come these 2, almost 40 years old guys are the best? i mean isnt there a younger guy who is stronger and faster?

it's really about the weight classes. i think GGG is a better overall fighter than both, but he weighs 160 and will never fight floyd or manny. Or I should say, they would never fight him. Same with Kovalev, but he weighs 175.

basically, both manny and floyd have moved up 20-30 pounds from where they started, have beaten everyone important at their weight class (147 pounds), are the same size, have been in the top 3 of p4p rankings for 6+ years, and have not deteriorated much yet. at their weights they are still by far the best fighters. for instance, floyd has beaten the #1 ranked 154 pound fighter (canelo alvarez) and the top 140 pound guys have no chance vs either of them.

Late money coming on Manny. I can find Mayweather at -165 now in my bookie.

Floyd fought Alvarez recently 2013 who is 24 now.

GGG is 100% the truth. But seeing as how even top 168 and 175'ers are tippy toeing around risking a fight with GGG, there's about as much chance that Mayweather would fight him at the end of his career as there would be of a Filipino rooting for the black guy tonight. Don't blame him for that one though at all obviously. Do blame him for dodging the fuck out of Margarito during his prime, Kosta Tsuzyu (who Floyd avoided like the plague while moving through 135-140), and Sergio Martinez before Sergio's knees became like crushed toothpicks.

To date, Floyd's signature victory is still 2007's SPLIT decision over a way past prime Oscar De La Hoya. Prime ODLH was 1998-2002. But Floyd is 'the best ever.' Most absurd shit. Definitely all time great status...actually singularly the best combination of matchmaker + marketer in the history of the fight game.

Mayweather has really underrated toughness beyond that flashy movement. Some fighters just don't know how to properly react when they get hurt for the first couple times in their careers. The couple times Floyd has been stunned, he reacted right away instinctively to either close the punching distance and hold a sec or swayed to the side. He also shook off the effects pretty quickly. Another misnomer is that Floyd 'runs' around the ring all the time. Especially as his legs got older, he actually operates within a small space in the ring. He's just ridiculously good at standing there and making you miss right in front of you. Shane Mosley was the one who hurt Floyd the worst with a single shot. People forget that not only did Floyd recover, for most of the rest of the fight, Floyd wasn't running...he was walking Shane down making him miss because Shane by that point was a very low volume puncher loading up on power punches that were missing.

Point is that I think people are really undervalueing the possibility of Manny winning by decision (+400) just by outworking Mayweather in and out and especially by taking the first 3 or 4 rounds that Floyd tends to give away. The notion that 'Manny has to KO him or Floyd will win a decision easy' is really shortsighted. I don't think Manny can KO Floyd. Too tough to hit often, actual physical toughness when you do hit him, and he's so ridiculously risk adverse so there's so few opportunities. Sure will hope for it though.

On May 02 2015 20:17 iakim322 wrote: GGG is 100% the truth. But seeing as how even top 168 and 175'ers are tippy toeing around risking a fight with GGG, there's about as much chance that Mayweather would fight him at the end of his career as there would be of a Filipino rooting for the black guy tonight. Don't blame him for that one though at all obviously. Do blame him for dodging the fuck out of Margarito during his prime, Kosta Tsuzyu (who Floyd avoided like the plague while moving through 135-140), and Sergio Martinez before Sergio's knees became like crushed toothpicks. To date, Floyd's signature victory is still 2007's SPLIT decision over a way past prime Oscar De La Hoya. Prime ODLH was 1998-2002. But Floyd is 'the best ever.' Most absurd shit. Definitely all time great status...actually singularly the best combination of matchmaker + marketer in the history of the fight game. Mayweather has really underrated toughness beyond that flashy movement. Some fighters just don't know how to properly react when they get hurt for the first couple times in their careers. The couple times Floyd has been stunned, he reacted right away instinctively to either close the punching distance and hold a sec or swayed to the side. He also shook off the effects pretty quickly. Another misnomer is that Floyd 'runs' around the ring all the time. Especially as his legs got older, he actually operates within a small space in the ring. He's just ridiculously good at standing there and making you miss right in front of you. Shane Mosley was the one who hurt Floyd the worst with a single shot. People forget that not only did Floyd recover, for most of the rest of the fight, Floyd wasn't running...he was walking Shane down making him miss because Shane by that point was a very low volume puncher loading up on power punches that were missing. Point is that I think people are really undervalueing the possibility of Manny winning by decision (+400) just by outworking Mayweather in and out and especially by taking the first 3 or 4 rounds that Floyd tends to give away. The notion that 'Manny has to KO him or Floyd will win a decision easy' is really shortsighted. I don't think Manny can KO Floyd. Too tough to hit often, actual physical toughness when you do hit him, and he's so ridiculously risk adverse so there's so few opportunities. Sure will hope for it though.

Poor GGG can't even get Cotto to fight him. He has been relegated to crushing cans and gatekeepers forever. Despite the wary comments he made regarding a fight between them, I do think Froch will ultimately step up and fight him. Besides CF though, I don't see a top 3 154/160/168 fighting GGG willingly.

GGG vs Andre Ward. Thats the fight I want to see.
Ward will smash him though.

edit: Also GGG will murder Cotto. This is not a close fight.

5dimes:

Pacquiao wins by 12 round decision +472
Mayweather wins by 12 round decision +100