Official Floyd Mayweather- Manny Pacquiao Postfight aftermath discussion

[-PBP-]

That was definitely the most likely scenario for this fight. Mayweather is a brilliant, brilliant defender, and Pacquiao isn't that reckless guy anymore. Mayweather did what he had to do, and he deserves all the respect in the world. He's the best boxer of his era. The refs screwed PBP out of an accurate username, that was definitely a 117-111 fight and the judges had it a round off.

I spent the fight over on Reddit, and it's making me really sad how angry people are. They're swearing left and right to never watch boxing again.

Lol. If you average the scores I'm good

[Moosehead]

Wow what an amazing fight! Non stop excitement the whole way through. And even though Pacquiao lost he is still a champion, legend, and hero!!!

I scored the fight 7-5 Floyd.

- Bermuda

And smart. This fight was always about the money, aside from the drug testing or steroid testing, whatever. Manny only sells 1/3rd the PPV's that Floyd does so the pot should have been split 70/30, but Arum and Manny already knew that Manny would lose so they wanted all the money up front, cause there would be no rematch. So they finally got a 60/40 split which Manny didn't deserve. If Manny was so confident he was going to win take the 70/30 split, beat Mayweather then give him the rematch and you take the 70 and give Floyd the 30. But they knew he was gonna lose so they wanted as much as they could get up front.

[MrRolltide91]

Pacquiao was gun shy

[darius45]

I can't believe Freddie Roach wasn't screaming at Pac that he needed a KO to win... I mean WTF?!!

[SkillspayBills]

Where is Hype Job. We had a convo earlier today and I told him "Pac RETREATS in angels but he attacks in straight lines." I KNOW MY BOXING.

[DeadLikeMe]

That was definitely the most likely scenario for this fight. Mayweather is a brilliant, brilliant defender, and Pacquiao isn't that reckless guy anymore. Mayweather did what he had to do, and he deserves all the respect in the world. He's the best boxer of his era. The refs screwed PBP out of an accurate username, that was definitely a 117-111 fight and the judges had it a round off.

I spent the fight over on Reddit, and it's making me really sad how angry people are. They're swearing left and right to never watch boxing again.

There was a huge ****storm about "boxing is dead" and "who cares about this dying sport" on sites like that after Pac-JMM IV too. I think it has less to do with the quality of the fight than it does people being upset. Then you have the UFC fanboys who want to **** up anything to do with boxing on a daily basis just adding fuel to the fire.

[Moosehead]

Pacquiao was gun shy

He was gun shy, because of the range and distance I talked about before the fight, If he went all wreckless he takes to many counters and eventually lays down on the canvas.

[URAGONAKO]

Cong**** Floyd! My man just got defeated by the much experience fighter.

You won the fight, you're the man tonight!!!

Time for Manny to retire and just do the preaching in his country!

[StefanTosic]

I wasn't watching this fight trying to be objective, I watched it with my emotions turned on and that 118-110 score outraged me, whatching it live I tought Pacquiao won at least 6 rounds and the fight seemed very very close to me but it is very possible that I'm wrong! So I have to watch it one or two more times, but in an strictly-analytical way, without any emotion to be sure of the scores. But two things are sure Pacquiao wasn't at his best, haven't used enough of footwork, a lot of times he stayed like a statue in the middle of the ring and I was disappointed by his performance.

[Spacey1991]

Mayweather did something I didn't actually think would happen. He made Pac gun shy. It literally never crossed my mind that the punch output for Pac would be that freaking low. Wow. Virtuoso performance. He didn't beat Pac up. But he did outclass him.

Honestly, when the fight was first signed I said to a few friends that I think Pac might end up looking gun shy, I thought Mayweather wouldn't give him room and disrupt his rhythm and I also thought Pac only really unloads when he feels he has you there to open up. But with all the pre fight hype and Floyd looking a little nervous before I had a feeling it could be competitive, half way through the fight I wish I just stuck with my original thoughts lol.

Pacs a great fighter in his own right, his style just wasn't suited to win and Floyd was just the better man on the night.