Mayweather Jr. versus Pacquiao a battle of “Brain versus Brawn”
By Lester Salvador
Submit Your Article to Nowboxing.com
As you know the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight is what every boxing fan and even non boxing fans are talking about.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. in my eyes is the most scientific boxer of our time. Floyd’s style was perfected since birth and it was ingrained him at an early age by his father Floyd Sr. Money Mayweather is unmatched in the ring when it comes to intelligence, he can analyze and pick you apart at will. He can adjust to anything you offer and find your weakness and exploit it.
Manny Pacquiao is an explosive, little power house who has relied on a special blend of supplements given to him by his conditioning trainer Alex Ariza. He likes overpowering his foe and throwing punches in bunches as if he was in a video game. In a street fight Manny Pacquiao would probably prevail over Mayweather. Pacman’s style is perfect for UFC or Mix Martial Arts but it is not refined enough to be considered scientific or technical enough for boxing standards.
Boxing will prevail on March 13, 2010 whether it be in Las Vegas or Dallas, the fight will break all records. On that very date you will see what makes boxing an art form when Mayweather tames the bull. Mayweather is beauty to behold in the ring. He moves so smooth so calculated it’s like you are watching the Matrix movie. He makes fighting look like a ballet dance.
Manny Pacquiao on the other hand seems to have a fan base of guys who enjoy bodybuilding and violence. Guys who have a short attention span and only care about knockouts and have no appreciation of the sweet science. Pacquiao also seems to be a favorite boxer of MMA fans who have no understanding about scientific boxing. I don’t find Pacman’s style attractive to watch, he is to wild and raw he doesn’t look slick or smooth in the ring.
All that muscle won’t help Manny this time, with Olympic style drug testing implemented in the contract it will insure that no monkey business is involved. Freddie Roach seems to be a bit nervous because he stated he won’t let anyone take blood from Manny 6 weeks prior to a fight. I am not a steroid expert but what I found out is many Mixed Martial Arts fighters who take steroids, will cycle off of the drug a few weeks before the fight so it can leave the system.
Urine tests are so easy to pass and if Mayweather Jr. himself is willing to endure the same type of Olympic blood tests why would Freddie Roach not allow the same for Manny especially if Freddie is so confident that Manny is clean. Sounds fishy to me. Mayweather has every right to question if Manny Pacquiao is on performance enhancing drugs, look at Sugar Shane Mosley he was caught using BALCO designer steroids in the past when he went up in weight to beat Oscar De La Hoya.
This fight reminds me of the “Rumble in the Jungle” Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman, everyone thought Ali would lose to Foreman, Foreman like Pacquiao was a fearsome power punching brawler. Ali had a game plan, he stayed on the ropes, tired Foreman out with the rope a dope and Knocked him out in the later rounds.
I see the same thing in this fight, Manny will try to throw his shots and get countered. Once Mayweather gets into his shell defense Manny wont’ know what to do and tire himself out trying to land shots but missing. Pacman doesn’t have the ring intelligence to change his game plan and adjust, this is when Mayweather shines the most, Floyd has so many ways to beat you, while Pacman has only one way to beat you and if he cannot hit you he gets frustrated.
Pacquiao’s best chance is to catch Floyd with a lucky punch on an off night or hope that Mayweather has suddenly aged over night.
(Please refrain from leaving any Vulgar, Racist comments or they will be removed, Thank You)
Discuss this and other boxing events in the Now Boxing Forum (membership is FREE)
Popularity: 18% [?]
Loading ...
Hey, Lester! are you calling the pacquiao fans, stupid? and you think pacquiao is all brawns and no brain? Think again you arrogant moron! remember pacquiao has no amateur background unlike your so called intelligent fraud mayweather! what pacquiao learned, he did it while training for his pro fights and look at how much he has achieved so far? can you imagine how good he could be with the proper training and enough amateur background like you fraud mayweather? By the way it only took manny 1 round to figure out cotto and hatton… can you say the same with mayweather? you can’t be a multidivision champion if you don’t have the brains mr salvador! you are arrogant, any combat sports requires intelligence as well as brawns but i guess you are too stupid to realize that.
Pacquiao is gonna whoop dat a$$! Accusing him of steroids just shows the rest of the world how much of a P**** Mayweather is. All you non beleivers put your money up! You cant deny greatness, jus sit back enjoy and respect it!
This article does not elevate the sport of boxing, its just an author ranting about his favorite Money May. Lets take other recent articles:
FIGHTER OF THE DECADE – from HBO
Purists maintain that the current decade will run until December 31, 2010. Conventional wisdom holds otherwise. The Roaring Twenties encompassed the years 1920 through 1929. Popular culture dictates that The Sixties were over when 1970 began. The new millennium was celebrated as 1999 came to an end.
December 11, 2009 – by Thomas Hauser
As the ’00s draw to a close, it’s time to determine who deserves recognition as “Fighter of the Decade.” Four men merit consideration.
Bernard Hopkins was an unlikely candidate as the decade began. On January 15, 2000, he turned 35 years old. He was the IBF middleweight champion with a record of 36 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw. How much longer could he go on?
A lot longer.
In the decade that followed, Hopkins fought 17 times. On 14 of those occasions, he emerged victorious. His biggest victories were against Felix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya, Antonio Tarver, Winky Wright and Kelly Pavlik. Those aren’t just names. They’re challenges. He lost close decisions to Jermain Taylor on two occasions and was beaten by Joe Calzaghe.
“Bernard Hopkins,” Donald Turner says, “does everything the way it should be done, in and out of the ring. Outside of his age, the only problem he has is that he’s not the bravest fighter in the world. Being too brave is foolish. Not being brave enough can cost you, like it did with Hopkins against Taylor.”
Meanwhile, Hopkins proclaims, “Did you ever notice, when guys fight Bernard Hopkins, they always say afterward, ‘I wasn’t myself in the ring tonight.’ Like I don’t have anything to do with it. It’s like a baseball player who goes 0-for-4 and strikes out four times. Do you think maybe the pitcher had something to do with that?”
Hopkins will turn 45 on January 15, 2010. He’s the best over-40 fighter ever. “It’s not about what you did yesterday,” Bernard says. “You got to go into every fight with the attitude, ‘My legacy starts tonight.’”
Joe Calzaghe entered the decade with a 27-0 mark and the WBO super-middleweight belt firmly in hand. In late 2008, at age 36, he retired as an active fighter with an unblemished record of 46 wins and 32 knockouts in 46 fights.
“Floyd don’t run from nobody. I’ve seen Floyd counterpunch; I’ve seen Floyd move; I’ve seen Floyd use his speed, use his quickness. But I’ve never seen Floyd run.” – Bernard Hopkins
Joe Calzaghe entered the decade with a 27-0 mark and the WBO super-middleweight belt firmly in hand. In late 2008, at age 36, he retired as an active fighter with an unblemished record of 46 wins and 32 knockouts in 46 fights.
Throughout his career, Calzaghe showed physical skills, heart and the ability to make all necessary adjustments during a fight. He beat some good fighters (e.g. Chris Eubank, Jeff Lacy, Sakio Bika and Mikkel Kessler) who weren’t great. And he beat a once-great fighter (Roy Jones), who was well past his prime. His most impressive victory came against Hopkins.
After Calzaghe defeated Jones, Hugn McIlvanney wrote, “How can we do suitable honor to the wonderful boxing career of Joe Calzaghe while paying a decent minimum of respect to that battered old punchbag historical perspective? We could start by admitting that what was feverishly hailed as a triumph over a legend in Madison Square Garden looked rather more like the vandalizing of a relic. Roy Jones Jr. went to the ring in New York with his once-beautiful talent blatantly burnt out. Calzaghe’s only two assignments in America have confronted him with men whose aggregate age is eighty-two. The years have piled up for him too, but his undamaged looks and physical freshness testify to the benefits of having spared himself the frequent commitment to wars that has been the norm for Jones, Hopkins, and their kind.”
Calzaghe doesn’t pay much attention to pound-for-pound rankings and the like. He calls them “a mythical load of crap.” Still, in gauging his greatness, one must question whether Joe had the inquisitors that a fighter needs to be regarded as “Fighter of the Decade.”Floyd Mayweather Jr. started the millennium with 22 wins in 22 fights and the WBC 130-pound championship belt around his waist. Over the next 10 years, he had 18 fights and won all of them. In the process, he captured titles at weights as high as 147 pounds and scored notable victories over Diego Corrales, Jose Luis Castillo (twice), Zab Judah, Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Juan Manuel Marquez.
Mayweather’s public persona (“Money Mayweather”) is a self-creation. Give him credit for good marketing on that. And he has the respect of his peers. Zab Judah once remarked, “Floyd comes into every fight physically and mentally at 100 percent.”
Some observers of the boxing scene complain that Floyd runs more than he fights. But Bernard Hopkins rebuts that notion, saying, “Floyd don’t run from nobody. I’ve seen Floyd counterpunch; I’ve seen Floyd move; I’ve seen Floyd use his speed, use his quickness. But I’ve never seen Floyd run.”
And Mayweather himself notes, “Boxing is a beautiful sport. Boxing is art. The last time I looked, the sport was called ‘boxing,’ not ‘”toe-to-toe.’”
Still, there’s a chink in Floyd’s armor. There’s a school of thought that, for much of the decade, he ducked the tough fights, managing to avoid Shane Mosley, Paul Williams, Antonio Margarito, and Miguel Cotto.
That brings us to Manny Pacquiao.
On January 1, 2000, Manny Pacquiao was 21 years old and virtually unknown outside of his native Philippines. During the course of the past decade, he has fought 26 times and become the most famous fighter in the world. His opponents in that 10-year span included Erik Morales (three times), Marco Antonio Barrera (twice), Juan Manuel Marquez (twice), Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto. In 10 fights against these six Hall-of-Fame-caliber opponents, Pacquiao amassed 8 wins against 1 loss and a draw.
Moreover, unlike Hopkins and Mayweather (both of whom fought many of their biggest fights against smaller men), Pacquiao has consistently challenged naturally bigger fighters. He has hurdled every major obstacle in his weight class and then some.
Unlike Mayweather and Calzaghe, Pacquiao has a less-than-perfect record for the decade. But when a fighter fights the best again and again, sometimes he loses. When Sugar Ray Robinson was young and great, he lost to Jake LaMotta. Muhammad Ali lost to Joe Frazier and Ken Norton before he got old.
History judges elite fighters in large measure by their record against other elite fighters and how they perform in their most difficult challenges.
Mayweather has talked the talk. Pacquiao has walked the walk. And Manny has out-of-the-ring intangibles as well. In that regard, he’s similar to Muhammad Ali: a great fighter, a good person and an important symbol for his people.
“I’m just doing my job to be a good fighter,” Pacquiao said after beating Miguel Cotto earlier this year.
He’s doing more than that. Manny Pacquiao deserves recognition as “Fighter of the Decade.”
Thomas Hauser can be reached by email at thauser@rcn.com. His most recent book (“An Unforgiving Sport”) was published earlier this year by the University of Arkansas Press.
This article does not elevate the sport of boxing, its just an author ranting about his favorite Money May. Lets take other recent articles:
CNN – Sports Illustrated
By Richard O’Brien, SI.com
BEST FIGHTER: Manny Pacquiao and also top 1 P4P of the decade (2000s)
Pacquiao opened the decade as a 21-year-old, ex-WBC flyweight champion who owned a 27-2 record and had fought just three times outside his native Philippines. His final pre-2000s excursion resulted in a third-round knockout loss to Medgoen Sengsurat in Thailand in 1999. Today, Pacquiao (50-3-2 with 38 KOs overall; 23-1-2 with 20 KOs this decade) owns seven world titles in as many weight classes, and is quite possibly the finest fighter in the world, pound-for-pound.
With an improbable combination of speed and power, he’s an electrifying presence in the ring, a relentless attacker and a master of distance, who comes at opponents from surprising angles while still maintaining tremendous leverage and balance. He also fights with an urgency and a joy unseen since the young Roberto Duran. Best of all, Pacquiao, 31, may not even have peaked yet; under trainer Freddie Roach, he just keeps getting better.
[...] Source: nowboxing.com [...]
you sound like a mayweather fan. Im a Floyd and a Pacman fan and i believe this fight can go both ways.
They say hes fast and good depens and hard to hit. He is a good fighter and good counterpunch. But, you know. On all my boxing experince and training, nobody ever knock out me with a counter punch. After the fight i always see them getting knocked out instead of me. you know. hehehehe.
I will sing for maywaether and sell him my new product. Its a counter prooduct of steroids. We call it SteRice enhancement. If you buy now you get a free Nike T-Shirt, you choose the size. And Thank you to all the boxing fans and to all my *Q!(@*#zxffffpppttt… (Line Cut off)
I can already smell a sore looser.
pacman
They say hes fast and good depens and hard to hit. He is a good fighter and good counterpunch. But, you know. On all my boxing experince and training, nobody ever knock out me with a counter punch. After the fight i always see them getting knocked out instead of me. you know. hehehehe.
I will sing for maywaether and sell him my new product. Its a counter prooduct of steroids. We call it SteRice enhancement. If you buy now you get a free Nike T-Shirt, you choose the size. And Thank you to all the boxing fans and to all my *Q!(@*#zxffffpppttt… (Line Cut off)
To the moderator,
Alot of racist and vulgar comments are still gettting through. Mostly from Pacquiao supporters but also a few from Mayweather supporters. If this continues there will be people figthing in the stands on the night of the fight.
You may want to check the party that brought up the steroids first and also compare the muscle tone of both fighters. Deep down it makes one wonder who’s really scared to fight.
Regarding steroids use – if you think about it Mayweather always look bulky. He may not use the steroids this time of course since they brought it up already in the surface and both fighters could both get tested for it. Bringing the subject up may also have left them now feeling like they have shot themselves in the foot.
I bet this guy is a mexican. he is bitter because all great mexican boxer was down and damaged by the mexicutioner(pacquiao). lol
[...] Mayweather Jr. versus Pacquiao a battle of “Brain versus Brawn” [...]
Dumb, so dumb article.
Finally we have someone who know’s what there talking about.. A ring wizard versus a brawler, the wizard wins everytime, Ali and Foreman, and Rocky and the Russian..LOL!! Yall support the US troops, well support your American fighter!!!
People keep saying Mayweather is the best but where are his belts, where is his title? He won’t fight the man in Mosely so he picks on a smaller Marquez. Now he says he wants to fight Pac but its obvious he doesn’t. Pac is following the rules set forth by the Nevada State Athletic Commissio but now Mayweather wants to change the rules and than say Pac is being shady…please, anyone with any objectivity should see through that. And to people who keep saying Pac has beaten a weight drained DLH or ’shot’ Hattan or a ’shot’ Cotto, keep making excuses for Mayweather, that seems to be what he lives off of so he can convince himself he is the best when he’s not even the proven best in his weight class. Name one prime, top-dog welterweight he has fought…oh wait you can’t.
And the author is this article is, how should I put it?…Incompetent.
Like watching a ballet dance??? hahahaha….
From reading your articles, one thing is obvious, you simply do not like Pacquiao and you will find every excuse to cut him down to size, so why don’t you just come out and say it “I, Lester Salvador, do not like Pacquiao” instead of trying to sound like some wannabe pseudo boxing expert hellbent on trying to sound intellectual as you pretend to be a “writer” who talks about boxing science, blah..but clearly just a very hateful trying hard wannabe. I bet you were picked on alot as a kid because your ineptitude in any kind of sports, right?
You should sign your article as Lester the Hateful Jester. You are a joke.
FLOYD JR. IS SCARED!!! JUST WATCH HIS DIMEANOR WHEN ASKED ABOUT FIGHTING MANNY…. AND ON A SIDE NOTE MAYWEATHER SENIOR LOOKS LIKE JAMIE FOX IN “THE SOLOIST”…AND THAT IS A FACT LOL
PAC MAN IS A ROID USING PUNK. I AM A BLOGGER AND IF MANNY IS CAUGHT USING ROIDS I THINK HE SHOULD BE STRIPPED OF EVERYTHING ANYONE ONE FOR THAT MATTER. KIDS LOOK UP TO THESE GUYS AND SPORTS FIGURES WHO USE STEROIDS. ARE A BAD INFLUENCE ON THE UPCOMING GENERATION. TAKE THE TEST PACMAN AND SHOW EVERYONE YOU ARE A TRUE CHAMPION. AND NOT JUST A DRUG USING PUNK WHO LACKS REAL TALENT. (ADA)
“the soloist” starring floyd mayweather sr.
http://www.awardsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/2i0cc1x.jpg
hahahahahhHAHAHHAHHAHA!!!
Its More Like “MOUTH VS BRAWN”
Fuck You Your GAy….i think your gay Gay weather is the one using steroids b4 in his prevoius fights… hes just making gay excuses to stop the fight……your right about the ballet dancing thing… becuase he is GAyyyyyy…………MAybe Gayweather PAid you to put up this article you GayWeather fan……..
Manny is a great fighter, his record shows but more of a power brawler. However, Mayweather is an incredible technician and a great defensive fighter.
Put both together and you get Mayweather winning no doubt.
Floyd again is the man people, do not get distracted because of his arrogance it is a way to promote the fight.
wrong article and no brain writer.