Manny Pacquiao VS Floyd Mayweather JR

[510Meeze]

Just more overblown hype by the media. Mayweather's camp is just looking for stuff to talk about in the papers. Why not test after the fight, why is blood test so important etc.

[Blarg]

I don't find the weight penalty all that bad. Basically mayweather makes so much he can show up 10 pounds heavy to a fight and just pay peanuts to fight at that weight since after all the buildup there is no way the opponent will call off the fight. All the penalty is doing is saying 'don't pull that shit with me because you can and will make the weight'

I thought I read the drug test thing was agreed just to recently with a condition or 2 but I'm not sure.

[tyven]

manny gonna file a defamation lawsuit loooool

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...a-lawsuit.html

HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE

[Velgadess]

So, apparently the fight is now off because of some drug testing stuff.




Pacq is either A. Doping B. Scurred

I wouldn't be surprised one bit if this was just a marketing/media ploy to draw more interest in the fight and that Manny and Floyd are in on it.

[Titanss]

said on espn today they both agreed to urine so looks like it's all good
My pick:
Mayweather wins by decision

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Only if he doesn't get downed in the first few rounds. Mayweather has a habit of being sloppy in the beginning and Manny has shown to not fuck around eg Hatton.

Irony if Manny plows Mayweather then there will be very few people that will want to touch him.

[tyven]

pulling hard for manny

[Titanss]

ya I want Manny to win fo sho but my money is on Mayweather

[Ghost_Wheel22]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201.../07/fight.off/

God dammit.

[tyven]

what the fuck

[Trigun]

"Don't believe the hype."

[tyven]

http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=24534

Insidesports.ph, Standard Today, Viva Sports and BoxingScene.com understand that the Mayweather handlers led by Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer and Mayweather’s top adviser Al Hayman had tried to convince the fighter to agree to the 24-day blood test proposal which Pacquiao had agreed to and which medical experts had said was more than sufficient to detect any traces of performance enhancing drugs, but they were turned down by Mayweather resulting in the fight being called off.

[Brill Weave]

FYI, this shit is why boxing is a fucking joke.

[Correction]

Mayweather running scared.

[tyven]

FYI, this shit is why boxing is a fucking joke.

preach preacher. this was supposed to be the fight that saved boxing. way to go fagbags

[Brill Weave]

Here's my issue with boxing. And I really fucking hate to compare the two but if the shoe fits etc... MMA and boxing are each other's biggest competitors right now. Anyone with an inkling of intelligence recognizes that fact. Here are the two biggest differences in the two sports.

Money. It's all about money. A top ten boxer can easily clear millions for a fight. In contrast looking at the last UFC pay per view, the top earner was Rashad Evans who cleared just under 400k. Boxers can coast through on one fight per year. They get fat, lazy, and lethargic in their off time because they don't need to be in top fighting shape 24/7/365. MMA fighters are constantly training and maintaining. Last minute substitutions are a common place occurance. So you get a guy earning a shitload more money, who for the most part, usually is working a lot less than an MMA fighter.

And the 2nd difference, and this is by far and away the major reason why boxing is kind of falling by the wayside. Top fighters ducking each other. How many "super fights" actually happen when boxers are in their prime? Not many. Let's be honest, it's pretty fucking rare that you get two boxers in their primes wanting to risk their records against another fighter of the same caliber.

MMA is the direct opposite. You have top end fighters wanting to fight their contemporaries. They want to fight the guy that is supposedly impossible to beat, their record be damned. Boxing? Not going to happen. Not without some circus like set of prerequisites taking place beforehand. This is a primary case in point.

Boxing has become almost completely irrelevant at this point. A fight like this should have drawn attention back to the sweet science. Instead it just serves as another step down the path to inevitable obscurity.

[Correction]

A long boxing match is 100x more exciting to watch than a long MMA match.

Prove me wrong.

[Rhyis.]

Money. It's all about money. A top ten boxer can easily clear millions for a fight. In contrast looking at the last UFC pay per view, the top earner was Rashad Evans who cleared just under 400k. Boxers can coast through on one fight per year. They get fat, lazy, and lethargic in their off time because they don't need to be in top fighting shape 24/7/365. MMA fighters are constantly training and maintaining. Last minute substitutions are a common place occurance. So you get a guy earning a shitload more money, who for the most part, usually is working a lot less than an MMA fighter.

This will change in 5 years imo.

A long boxing match is 100x more exciting to watch than a long MMA match.

Prove me wrong.

How long is long?
If you can appreciate ground fighting, and it has to be over 30 minutes, Royce Gracie vs. Kazushi Sakuraba.

If you're talking about 15 minute decision fights, I can name a million of them. A dozen from just last year.

[tyven]

A long boxing match is 100x more exciting to watch than a long MMA match.

Prove me wrong.

faber vs pulver > mayweather vs de la hoya

[Cleverness]

Depends on the long boxing match, some are epic, others are the guy trying to not fall down for 8 rounds and you finally just want him to go down. I grew up watching De Le Hoya so there's some biased there when I talk about him, but even then some matches if they lasted long he'd have no energy once he started jumping around different weight classes and the fight reached the 2nd half. I'll have to look up the long MMA match listed above, but they are still interesting to watch in most cases also, in the end I'd think it just depend on which sport you personally think is cooler.

I really REALLY wanted this fight to happen, cause pretty much everyone I know thinks MMA is the shit and shits on boxing, and a fight like this would prove the sport isn't dead yet. But apparently all they did was prove me wrong, guess I'll use the money I was gonna spend trying to get tickets for this event to get some PPV subscriptions for MMA fighting.