Official Floyd Mayweather- Manny Pacquiao Postfight aftermath discussion

[jas]

Floods gonna control the pace just like he does every fight. When you talk about the fight you act like pac will have success with everything he tries lol

You mean he'll run around the ring

[mikinoki]

Long-awaited fight can't revive boxing

The bout might become an instant classic, but the event won't celebrate the fight game as much as commemorate it.

There ought to be a moment of silence at ringside to honor boxing's passing.

Not even Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao can bring back the dead.

On May 2 in Las Vegas, Mayweather and Pacquiao merely will do their part to keep its memory alive (and they certainly took their sweet time doing it.)

Then we'll all go back to reviewing the NFL draft and tracking gas prices.

Boxing is peeking its head out of a dark hole like Punxsutawney Phil, only to scurry back underground, the forecast calling for more years of apathy. The sweet science sadly allowed the selfie crowd to crown mixed-martial arts mayhem -- "human ****fighting," as John McCain once called it -- as its trendy bloodlust replacement.

The fight game for me fell off the radar after Mike Tyson predictably imploded, along with the heavyweight division, the lifeblood of the sport.

Now Ironic Mike is a one-man Broadway show, an updated version of a cauliflowered-eared Jake LaMotta doing stand-up.

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One of the Klitschkos is the champ of the world, not just the Ukraine, although I can't tell you which brother.

And, apparently, all the big kids in the neighborhoods have been more interested in becoming left tackles or power forwards than heavyweights.

You know boxing has gone quiet when you can no longer hear Don King.

Mayweather and Pacquiao might have been able to give it the shock-paddle treatment if they had fought each other before this. Maybe Mayweather-Pacquiao III would be on sale ?with casual customers at a frenzied anticipation.

There always have been complications in making big fights. The problems that got in between Floyd and Manny ?money, dueling promoters and drug-testing, etc. ?only reminds us that boxing never evolves.

Mayweather, 38, and Pacquiao, 36, have strung along fans for so long that they are nearing retirement.

The battle to decide the best pound-for-pound boxers is five years too late, although promoter Bob Arum says the frustrating wait heightens the appeal. That's ludicrous, of course.

I can't be too tough on Arum because he delivered one of the great lines when asked why he once contradicted himself: "Yesterday I was lying. Today I'm telling the truth."

That's boxing, and the truth is that domestic violence will be an issue in the pre-fight hype.

Unlike in a previous incident, Mayweather was jailed in 2012 for roughing up another former girlfriend. He served 60 days of a 90-day sentence in the very city he'll meet Pacquiao. Mayweather did his time, but everything has changed since the Ray Rice elevator video.

When Mayweather was incarcerated, he complained to police that he wasn't getting enough exercise time. Poor baby. He wrote he had not committed a felony, "so why am I being treated like a murderer or a child predator?" It'll be interesting in interviews to see if Mayweather finally gets it.

Here's where boxing is today: There's nothing Mayweather and Pacquiao can do in the ring that will drop our jaws more than the staggering financials of the fight.

This isn't a championship match; it's a corporate merger.

For a night's work, Mayweather could pocket $120 million or the entire Texas Rangers' payroll. They don't call the world's highest-paid athlete "Money" for nothing. Pacquiao, aka Pac-Man, might gobble up a paltry $80 million.

You can only imagine what Jack Dempsey would have made if there were pay-per-view and Twitter.

Mayweather-Pacquiao's PPV cost delivered to your living room might be $100. More than a record-breaking three million folks are expected to purchase it.

High-end tickets at the 16,000-seat MGM Grand Garden will fetch about $5,000 apiece, and the lowest around $1,000, equaling a $40 million house. Hotel rooms are going for $700-$800 a night.

OK, so it's the richest fight of all time. There's no guarantee it will be the best.

For one night only, Mayweather and Pacquiao might bring fans to their feet. They just can't bring boxing back to life.



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[Beater_of_ass]

Boxing is dead yet... May/Pac will be the two highest paid athletes of the year lol.

[f15bone]

Boxing is alive & kicking...

The audience may have changed, demographics, advent of social media, ect...ect....

But in its essence, boxing ain't going nowhere!!!!!!!

Believe Dat!!!!!!

[fabie]

The bout might become an instant classic, but the event won't celebrate the fight game as much as commemorate it.

There ought to be a moment of silence at ringside to honor boxing's passing.

Not even Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao can bring back the dead.

On May 2 in Las Vegas, Mayweather and Pacquiao merely will do their part to keep its memory alive (and they certainly took their sweet time doing it.)

Then we'll all go back to reviewing the NFL draft and tracking gas prices.

Boxing is peeking its head out of a dark hole like Punxsutawney Phil, only to scurry back underground, the forecast calling for more years of apathy. The sweet science sadly allowed the selfie crowd to crown mixed-martial arts mayhem -- "human ****fighting," as John McCain once called it -- as its trendy bloodlust replacement.

The fight game for me fell off the radar after Mike Tyson predictably imploded, along with the heavyweight division, the lifeblood of the sport.

Now Ironic Mike is a one-man Broadway show, an updated version of a cauliflowered-eared Jake LaMotta doing stand-up.

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One of the Klitschkos is the champ of the world, not just the Ukraine, although I can't tell you which brother.

And, apparently, all the big kids in the neighborhoods have been more interested in becoming left tackles or power forwards than heavyweights.

You know boxing has gone quiet when you can no longer hear Don King.

Mayweather and Pacquiao might have been able to give it the shock-paddle treatment if they had fought each other before this. Maybe Mayweather-Pacquiao III would be on sale ?with casual customers at a frenzied anticipation.

There always have been complications in making big fights. The problems that got in between Floyd and Manny ?money, dueling promoters and drug-testing, etc. ?only reminds us that boxing never evolves.

Mayweather, 38, and Pacquiao, 36, have strung along fans for so long that they are nearing retirement.

The battle to decide the best pound-for-pound boxers is five years too late, although promoter Bob Arum says the frustrating wait heightens the appeal. That's ludicrous, of course.

I can't be too tough on Arum because he delivered one of the great lines when asked why he once contradicted himself: "Yesterday I was lying. Today I'm telling the truth."

That's boxing, and the truth is that domestic violence will be an issue in the pre-fight hype.

Unlike in a previous incident, Mayweather was jailed in 2012 for roughing up another former girlfriend. He served 60 days of a 90-day sentence in the very city he'll meet Pacquiao. Mayweather did his time, but everything has changed since the Ray Rice elevator video.

When Mayweather was incarcerated, he complained to police that he wasn't getting enough exercise time. Poor baby. He wrote he had not committed a felony, "so why am I being treated like a murderer or a child predator?" It'll be interesting in interviews to see if Mayweather finally gets it.

Here's where boxing is today: There's nothing Mayweather and Pacquiao can do in the ring that will drop our jaws more than the staggering financials of the fight.

This isn't a championship match; it's a corporate merger.

For a night's work, Mayweather could pocket $120 million or the entire Texas Rangers' payroll. They don't call the world's highest-paid athlete "Money" for nothing. Pacquiao, aka Pac-Man, might gobble up a paltry $80 million.

You can only imagine what Jack Dempsey would have made if there were pay-per-view and Twitter.

Mayweather-Pacquiao's PPV cost delivered to your living room might be $100. More than a record-breaking three million folks are expected to purchase it.

High-end tickets at the 16,000-seat MGM Grand Garden will fetch about $5,000 apiece, and the lowest around $1,000, equaling a $40 million house. Hotel rooms are going for $700-$800 a night.

OK, so it's the richest fight of all time. There's no guarantee it will be the best.

For one night only, Mayweather and Pacquiao might bring fans to their feet. They just can't bring boxing back to life.



Thoughts?

i concur...prizefighting-wise yes...but this is a "corporate merger".

[Fetta]

VEGAS!!!!

The FIGHT!!

[bigjavi973]

"pacquiao has no footwork doe"

Heres on of bruce lee's first student saying bruce lee and pacquiao have similar footwork from the soutpaw stance:



Oh yea and brandon rios gets pissed!!! LMAO

[HanzGruber]

"pacquiao has no footwork doe"

Heres on of bruce lee's first student saying bruce lee and pacquiao have similar footwork from the soutpaw stance:



Oh yea and brandon rios gets pissed!!! LMAO

Jesus who ever said pac has no footwork stop making shlt up. But besides that I saw this video weeks ago hilarious how rios tells Ellie to stop bringing up pac all the time

[bigjavi973]

Jesus who ever said pac has no footwork stop making shlt up. But besides that I saw this video weeks ago hilarious how rios tells Ellie to stop bringing up pac all the time

[IronDanHamza]

- great jab (Oscar)
- combos (maidana)
- body punching (Castillo)

Manny doesn't have a Oscar jab but hardly anyone does

Manny doesn't really have much of a jab.

And I think that might be a problem for him.