Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Manny Pacquiao likely for March 13

i think mayweather will beat pacman. manny throws punches in bunches, but he almost always ends up off balance after a cominaton. a skilled fighter like mayweather will make him pay for that.
the one thing manny has going for him is that he will probably punch enough to outpoint mayweather for most of the rounds.
mayweather is a more skilled figter though, manny has never fought a guy like that before. watch the marquez fights. marquez outboxed paquio and mayweather has more power,speed, and skill than marquez. i have mayweather winning by split decision or ko.

he probably will show every main event in recent memory on spike for free though. it still won’t matter. this fight is bigger than anything mma has ever seen.

Don’t get me wrong…this IS the biggest draw in MMA today, but do you remember a little over a year ago…it was ALL about Randy vs. Fedor. Notice something? Fedor is the only constant here. To say that Brock vs. Fedor would be relevant to battle Pacman/Mayweather is just crazy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not happy about it. MMA, to me, is a much more legitimate sport that boxing..hell..it has every form of boxing intertwined within itself. Why do you think it’s fastest growing sport EVER? I don’t even keep up with boxing anymore other than headlines and quick recaps cause to me it’s just not entertaining enough to watch anymore with the progression of MMA. But, even I would watch this fight. This has been on “what would happen if” lists for years now. This has not changed, only been fueled more and more. Just that you all are agreeing that it’s on a level with Ali/Frazier and Tyson/Holyfield should be enough. Do you realize what you’re saying…everyone and their grandmother knows those fights and how big they were…when boxing wasn’t just relevant…but THE SHIT. And to put this fight in that category in a day and age where boxing truly is a dying sport (yes it is, beyond a few top draws out of the 1000s of champions out there…boxing isn’t relevant anymore. It’s just that it’s big draws..well they are still BIG draws), that to me is utterly amazing and will make this fight if and when it happens go down as the biggest fight in boxing history. Just my 2 cents.

I look at it this way:

watching Mayweather fight is like poetry in motion, his moves are very crisp and he probably has the fastest jab in the world. His Balance is solid and he likes to pivet off of his front foot. He makes his opponents come to him and his jab snaps hard when they get too close. Mayweather rarely throws a combination more than 3 or 4 punches at a time because he really doesnt need to. His opponents come to him thus making his jab and straight punches very effective… which is very smart.
BUT…. I think he’s too fast for his own good… One thing about mayweather is that he barely shuffles his feet… HE’S so fast that he doesnt really need to shuffle to avoid a punch… he makes very quick steps to avoid punches so he doesnt shuffle and skip and because of that, his footwork has grown to be very stiff, VERY FAST, but stiff… I think that will be a good weakness for Pacquiao to exploit…

However, Pacquiao is a fighter who is on the other side of the spectrum… Pacquiao is very fluid… He likes to move forward towards his opponent, but he always comes at you from different directions… He’s always moving… constantly shuffling and skipping his feet… THE MAN NEVER STANDS STILL! Since he is always moving its hard to guess where his punches are coming from, I bet he has the fastest and most accurate 4-6 punch combinations… He never throws just a single punch. He throws at least 4 punches at a time and his hands come from all different directions… His combos are on another level… While most boxers struggle to connect with a single counter punch, Manny is able to counter with a 5 punch combo.
ALSO, Manny always moves around with both hands up, blocking his face. His body frame is so compact that he can pretty much block his face and the majority of his torso at the same time just by keeping his gloves infront of his face and forarms in front of his body, thus making it very hard for mayweather to penetrate with his jabs and his quick straight punches…

I see the fight going down like this….
Manny is gonna hop and shuffle towards mayweather with his hands up… when he gets close, mayweather is gonna throw those super fast straight punches… Manny will block the first jab… after that Manny will counter those straights with his Combos… Even though Manny will probably get caught with a few punches when he starts his combos, it wont really matter because Manny’s flurrys will score more points on the judges score cards… So we will probably see this over and over through out the fight. Of course mayweather is gonna step back and bob and weave like he does, but when both fighters make contact with each other, its gonna be Manny whos gonna win the exchanges.

So I say PACQUIAO by DECISION……… AND I BET THE FIGHT WONT HAPPEN UNTIL THE SUMMER…lol