I wish "Sweet Pea" was in his prime today. I miss watching his mastery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjTHLPmfBCQ&feature=fvw

The strategic battle in this fight is definitely what happens when Pacman flurries against Mayweather. Will he force Mayweather to open up and play a stand and trade game? Mayweather's never seen an offensive dynamo with the sheer volume of punches that Manny throws. He simply throws so many punches from so many conventional and unconventional angles that it's hard for anyone not to be overwhelmed.

On the other hand, Manny has never fought anyone with the defensive ability of Floyd. He's so good at the shoulder roll defense and presents such a small target. His counter-punching is incredible.

So what happens? It could play out in a number of ways.

Manny comes forward and unleashes the fury, but Mayweather is able to defend nearly everything. He rarely gets hit and starts counterpunching almost immediately. As the fight wears on, he gets more and more accurate with his counterpunching and manny gets more and more frustrated. Several things could happen here. Floyd could ride his defense to a decision, with Manny not really hurt but very ineffective throughout the fight. Floyd could do well for 4-5 rounds but be suddenly dropped by a Manny flurry, which is a possibility at any time when you are fighting Pac. Or, Floyd's counterpunching could start to take a toll over the course of the fight and he could actually KO Manny.

Manny comes forward and unleashes the fury. Mayweather's defense is good, but he gets hit cleanly a few times. His counterpunching is ok, but not really affecting Manny. Floyd is forced to start trading openly with Manny after a couple rounds of ineffective counterpunching. If that happens, would Floyd be Manny's offensive equal? Would he hit him hard and cleanly? Or would Manny dominate in a slug-it-out fight, that is much more suited to his game?

I consider myself only a casual boxing fan, but I can't see why a lot people are guaranteeing there will be 2, if not 3 fights between these two?

Both stand to make a TON of money just for one fight. It seems that Mayweather only cares about money. In his interview, he states that he feels that he has nothing to prove by fighting Pac-man. PBF saying if he beats/KO's Pac-man, people will say it's allready been done. Obviously he's somewhat putting on a show, but what would he have to prove in a rematch if he beats Pac-man the first time around?

Basically I'm asking is the payday enough to convince PBF to do a rematch if he does beat Pac-man? He really would have everything to lose if that's the case. We know how much he cares about that 0 in the loss column.

Here's why there'll be a rematch: PBF be broke. PBF fight Pac 1 time. PBF rolling in dough. PBF spend dough. PBF be broke. PBF fight Pac ...

Their styles/talent (handspeed, ring intuition etc) mesh really well and will prove to be a great fight. Since it'll be an exciting fight and most likely extremely competitive fight, fan interest will be high for a 2nd fight.

It's not a guarantee this will happen. But I'd say it's about 50% they fight a 2nd time if they fight once.




On a side note, I don't buy for a second that Manny will fight floyd then retire (permanently)

Boxing retirements are a joke anyway.

yes, because its not unusual for the biggest stars to take 9-12 months between fights anyways, so a 1 year retirement hardly slows them down at all.

And then you have fighters like Roberto Duran who couldn't bring themselves to hang them up and give up the sport, probably due to money problems.

A rematch is more likely if Floyd loses. His ego is too big to let Pacquiao off. But if Floyd wins he might want to fight Mosley or something. I don't know what Pacquiao would do except retire maybe.

There will be a second fight because if the first is epic, there will be huge demand for it. then again, i am surprised that there was no mayweather - de la hoya rematch. so perhaps it will be only one fight.

This just in.. Apparently pacman has replied to mayweather today and said YES to a fight.

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...CategoryId=200

Speaking to KTLA News, Pacquiao issued a resounding statement that would possibly kick-off negotiations for what would probably be the biggest and richest fight in boxing history.

"Yes, I want to fight Mayweather," Pacquiao told KTLA.

A rematch was set, but then Mayweather retired. It would have been a boring fight anyway, imo.

Well.. there you go. Mayweather got what he wanted.

Man, can't wait for this fight.

I heard he is running for office in the Philippines in late 2010. So this fight has to happen before then. I think it will.

the $ would of been alot smaller the second time around for mayweather vs de lahoya.

it was evident that oscar was shot and could not beat mayweather in a million years.

really? perhaps to people who understand boxing. for common folk it probably looked close w/ hoya throwing so many punches and all his end of round bursts.

yeah, it was not as close as it may of seemed to the casual fan. de lahoya did not stand a chance once floyd started throwing punches. it was a pretty easy fight for mayweather.

the ONLY chance oscar had was for mayweather to throw caution to the wind and stand toe to toe with him and oscar hit him with a lucky punch. other than that happening (floyd is way too smart for that) he had no shot.

if you watch the fight closely, you can see that the vast majority of oscar's punches fail to connect. floyd either slips, blocks or rolls with the punch. it may look good (oscar throwing flurries) but, he failed to "get to" mayweather the whole fight.

... i just watched the 1st 21 seconds of the 11th round and pretty boy hit oscar 7-9 solid (scoring blows) times without oscar even throwing a punch........

How do the referees score this kind of thing? Would it be in Floyd's favour because he is successfully neutralising all of DLH's efforts or would it be in DLH's favour because he is at least throwing punches and trying to be active even if he isn't doing any damage(say for arguments sake that PBF doesn't throw any punches all round or throws very few)?

I think they have general rules on which to score on, but a lot of it is down to personal preference, and that's why there are often big differences between judges scoring the same fight.

Most judges would score the PBF-DLH heavily to Mayweather because he landed far more punches with greater accuracy, however a case can be made to score in favour of DLH for some rounds because of his higher aggression (even though he missed with the vast majority of punches thrown).

i know that. this is only surprising because his nickname is also money mayweather. quite a misnomer i guess.

I could be wrong but didn't mayweather get paid 10 mil and hoya 25? or did he get a percentage of ppv buys too?

After PPV shares, DLH got close to $60 million. Mayweather got $25 mil.

Overview of professional scoring:

The scoring is based on a 10 pt Must system, which one boxer must receive 10 pts per round, and the other 9 or less.

Each knock down is a 1 pt deduction.

After that it is broken down into criteria which help the judges decide who is effectively winning, as different fighters have different styles, so it allows, or tries to in considering that.

The 4 areas/criteria for dominating are,

Clean Punching:

A clean punch is one that lands on the scoring area, in face or side of head, front and side of torso with the knuckle portion of the glove. This is often given more weight then other scoring criteria, as it is the effective goal, to hit the other person efficiently. More often.

Effective Aggression:

This is when a fighter demonstrates the ability to create opportunities moving forward and as a result is landing more clean punches. The more aggressive the fighter the more likely this is measured, if even say they were actually really close in scoring. So aggression has it's merits.

Ring Generalship:

This is when a person demonstrates the ability to control the pace of a fight based on whatever their style may be. An aggressive fighter luring his opponent into slugout matches in order to score pts. A defensive opponent maybe trapping a brawler with set ups, counters, controlling distance, various things.

Attention really needs to be paid to the differing styles of fighters when considering ring generalship.

Defence:

Defence is an important aspect of boxing, and has it's own scoring criteria although it is often sadly overlooked. It takes great skill defensively to be effective for pure boxers, over say brawlers, and is far more impressive when considering a total skill set.

Blocking, slipping, parrying, bobbing,weaving, the footwork involved are all things boxers work hard to master, and a great thing to watch for a trained eye as part of an effective defence.


So for each judge when deciding who has won the round and to be awarded the 10 pts, these are the 4 criteria used.

I score by asking myself who would I rather be in that round if my goal was to feel as little pain as possible.

the article linked above claimed some puerto rican source said 2 million PPVs for pac-cotto.

Insane.

If that's true, pacquiao deserves a good chunk over 50/50. 60/40 pac imo. I doubt floyd would agree to that, althought i migh be wrong.