[quote]Aussie Davo wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]Aussie Davo wrote:
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I don’t mean to stir up any shit… I think this fight will likely be boring and is the final breath of a dying venue. Agree with FightinIrish, Floyd is a douche, but will win and I don’t expect it to be close.
Are people actually going to pay to watch this?
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I will watch. Not because I want to, but because I’m a sucker. I was ready to boycott, but the promotion. Watching Mayweather talk shit every day on espn I’m now ready. I think he will do typical Mayweather defend and win in unanimous decision but he’s been talking Knockout in every interview. That 1% chance is drawing me in to watch. It is $100 but I think so many people want to see it that more people will chip in and buy it.
Boxing was doing okay until they decided to charge bars per cable box for the fights. UFC snuck in and stole the Saturday and Friday nights. If the new NBC Saturday boxing gets big, it’ll help a lot for the $100 million dollar Title fights. [/quote]
I think he will try for the KO, its not just talk. He’s brought in Pacquiao’s former S&C coach, and while i think S&C coaches are completely overrated, its a sign that hes trying to do something different (i dont think hes ever had a S&C coach on the payroll before?) and reportedly hes been extremely aggressive in sparring.
Its very likely this is the fight he will retire after, so i can see him wanting to silence all critics and go out with a bang. After all, even with the swathe of good work hes done recently, every fight its still “yeah but its not pacquiao”.
that said, I entirely expect if the fight ever gets really competitive for mayweather to go back to tried, true and safe habits.
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I donno man. This is showing how much of a casual boxing fan I am, but the last Mayweather fight I saw was the Oscar De la Hoya (I’m sure I spelled his name wrong) in, I believe, 2007. Obviously a lot has changed, but it was the same spiel then too.
My guess is it goes the distance and Floyd gets his hand raised even with all this shit talking. It’s strategy I guess, but the Oscar fight is what put me off Floyd.[/quote]
Yeah but Oscar was a big boy man. Oscar was almost 5’11. At welterweight, thats a BIG guy. Not to mention, for all the heat chucked at Oscar for being a pretty boy over his career, he legitimately had an solid chin.
Pacquiao is a bit of a different story. He’s quite a bit smaller than Mayweather, and he’s been knocked down quite a few times in his career. Certainly we know hes been knocked out by a counter puncher (Marquez).[/quote]
Ya, I guess that’s true.