Mayweather vs Pacman doesnt seem as exciting anymore?

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After lasts night fight - I dont see the above as being as competitive as I thought it would be. Marquez was able to negate Pacquiao's left hand all night. He made him miss his shots and lunge forward without enjoying any success.

Now Mayweather is the master of counter punches and we all saw what he did to Marquez - he made him look like a sparring partner.

I have always favoured Mayweather to win the super fight but I am now more convinced that ever. I would favour Floyd to make Manny look rather silly if they had ever fought.

Bit disappointed really as thought this would have been a hell of a fight.

What are your thoughts?

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ian_jamsie wrote:Pacman is over the hill because he performed badley against Marquez.

Has he EVER fought well against Marquez?

No, but he's probably fought BETTER against Marquez.

Not sure that anyone can say Manny looked as good against Mosley/Margarito as he did against Clottey/Cotto/Hatton. Looks like he's clearly lost a step of pace to me. And yes - whilst it has always been possible to time him on the way in - he used to do more when he got there.

He knocked Marquez down 4 times early in one fight an was lucky to get away with a draw.

Manny struggles with counter punchers.

When he fought Cotto he looked good until Cotto started counter punching. All of the sudden Pacquiao looks lost and frustrated, Cotto stopped though.

Mayweather is all wrong for Pacman but for whatever reason Mayweather was spooked by Pacman, he would have taken this fight and the money generated by it long ago if he thought it an easy win.

huw wrote:Manny struggles with counter punchers.

When he fought Cotto he looked good until Cotto started counter punching. All of the sudden Pacquiao looks lost and frustrated, Cotto stopped though.

Mayweather is all wrong for Pacman but for whatever reason Mayweather was spooked by Pacman, he would have taken this fight and the money generated by it long ago if he thought it an easy win.

Agreed, Mayweather could've taken this after either of Pac's Hatton or Cotto fights, taken the UD, made $100m and gone down as undisputed p4p and probably a top 20 ATG. Sadly he didn't.

Mayweather asked for the German drug testing merthod to be applied. Pacman rejected this.

However....

There is a rumour doing the rounds that the more they hold off the higher the fee gets. Some are saying they are holding off on purpose, to pump up the pay check.

I could just imagine the pair of them in there discussing/laughing about how to ramp up the fight as much as possible.