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Originally Posted by sylenze
dood u urself is talking from the heart and being a lil fan boy to mayweather... i like both fighters and an avid boxing fan... the thing that makes this fight interesting is that mayweather has never fought anybody like pacquiao... mayweather has one strategy only and that is to be in defense and pop shot the whole fight to wait till the opponent makes a mistake.. which is why he made the statement to not even study his opponents (who are handpicked to be susceptible to this strategy that's why he dodges cotto and mosley)... on the other hand, the main reason why pacquiao would not be like all the other fighters that mayweather has faced is because he has speed... marquez, the big show, hatton, de la hoya, baldomir, judah, mitchell, and the late gatti are all known to be slow.. you cannot compare them to pac's speed and weird *** movement... mayweather has picked his opponents to make him look like a great boxer because he is able to hit them... am not saying he doesnt have enough speed to hit pac, but he will definitely have a harder time...
also, ROACH knows something about mayweather... and when Roach has identified a weakness of the opponent... he knows how to expose them... i believe after training de la hoya for his fight against mayweather, he exactly knows how to defeat him and he was his target all along... this is because, if you look at all the fights that pacquiao has taken... they are all fights that puts mayweather in a position to fight pac... de la hoya, hatton, and the guy that mayweather dodges the most... cotto...its essentially making a statement "i fought who ever u fought and did not want to fight, so come fight me"... with that thought, pac will expose this weakness and has the best chance of putting an L on mayweather's record...
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Just want to comment on a couple things here but I do wanna say first that I would love Pacquiao to win but am not without reason that Mayweather is a skilled fighter.
First: Marquez and Judah are not what I would consider slow fighters..as a matter of fact Marquez hung with Pacquiao twice. Mayweather just has exceptional speed.
Second: Only recently has Mayweather been the larger guy in the ring but if you look at most of his fights he is not the larger guy. As a matter of fact he was the same size as Judah for that fight and smaller than De La Hoya(poosy).
Third: Cotto and Mosley(lol). You can't be serious ! Cotto is a good fighter and I LOVE to watch his fights because they are always good but he would be destroyed by Mayweather due to his speed and precision. Cotto would not be quick enough to counter Mayweather's punches and due to his poor fighting stance he would get rocked. Also he's been knocked down by lesser fighters than Mayweather.
Mosley is just an over the hill guy with no jab and not quick enough reflexes to hang with Mayweather. Mosley just needs to stop. His fight against Cotto was terri-bad !