You are not few...the pro-Pacquiao voices are louder and maybe more many...but there are many logical voices that agree with you. Here's my analysis... Here's how they compare: Records...Mayweather Speed...draw Reach...Mayweather Weight ...Mayweather Offensive workrate (volume)...Pacquiao Defense...Mayweather Stamina...draw Accuracy...Mayweather Power...Pacquiao Here's my fight analysis: Both fighers are very fast so speed is a wash. Floyd is going to be bigger and stronger.
He has the reach advantage and skill advantage. His defesne is superior to any fighter in boxing. Manny has never faced a defense this good.
What Manny has faced and had trouble with is a great counterpuncher (Juan Manuel Marquez), Floyd is a great counterpuncher...but better than Marquez. He's a better boxer than Erik Morales who beat Manny. As a matter of fact Oscar was very easy to hit.
Hatton and Cotto both are straight forward guys who have no head movement and no thought for defense. I see Manny pressing forward to try to make Floyd fight and rattle his calm. I see Floyd counter punching inside of Manny's wide, wild shots and making him pay when he gets close.
He will jab and keep Manny at a distance a lot. Manny will have a hard time hitting him and will be very frustrated by how he cant find Floyd during the first 5 rounds...after round 6 Manny will start to show fatigue from chasing Floyd and Floyd will start fighting in the center of the ring and sitting down on his punches. He will totally take over here.
It will end in a 10th round Ko or unanimous decison 117-110. Mayweather has never lost. He has never been Ko'd. He has never been truly knocked down and Manny with a reach disadvantage is going to knock him out?
It is Manny who has 3 losses already to smaller no name guys and 2 by knockout...he is the more vulnerable fighter. Erik Morales outboxed Manny. Marquez, who Floyd destroyed gave Manny all the trouble in the world.
If we are going with our heads and not our hearts Mayweather is the obvious favorite.
You are not alone. I too think that Floyd would outbox Manny especially in the early and middle rounds using his quickness, better mobility and more accurate pot-shooting and counter-punching, then would eventually take over in the later rounds after a disheartened and sputtering Manny begun to show signs of fatigue and slowing down. I think Floyd would even go stand up flat footed and out-slug a tired Manny by the last two rounds to win convincingly pulling away It is very noteworthy how after surviving Mosley's onslaught, Floyd immediately had Shane already at the receiving and losing end of their ensuing exchanges even before the end of the second round.
No, Floyd did not even used the bicycle as he stood there almost flat-footed and engaged Mosley in a shoot out. That's the first time in a long while I've seen Floyd in that fighting mood and stance. The guy is tough and could really fight!
You can't hit what's isn't there. Manny's camp used that adage in explaining Their winning strategy versus de la Hoya, Hatton, Cotto and Clottey. But this is the same strategy that they will be up against.
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