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We Floyd fans view the fight like this. If you were to create a fighter like in Fight Night to beat a virtual Mayweather, Manny possesses next to none of the qualities that you would pick to do the deed. That's where our confidence comes from. Jab? Not there with authority. Footwork, Manny has fast feet and many times, he doesn't really move with purpose. Floyd knows where he is at in a ring at all times Size? Floyd is bigger. Reach? Floyd has him there too. Timing? No one is better than Floyd at this. Boxing stance? Southpaw vs Orthodox, I'd pick an Orthodox boxer to make Floyd work to get his right hand going. A southpaw is automatically open to the right hand and if Chris Algeiri can get his right hand to Manny and Tim Bradley can pull a right hand from the fukking mat on multiple occasions, you better believe the person with the best right hand in the business will do it. Fighting in the pocket? Manny ain't bout that life. Manny is going to try to keep this fight at mid-range with some lateral movement because he is a rhythm fighter, dart in, dart out. He's going to catch some left hooks for his troubles though. That's my guess on gameplan. So, honestly, it's not that I like to discredit Manny by putting him down and all his accomplishments or whatever, but, there is always the saying, styles makes fight and for the life of me, I can't see this being competitive because of the aforementioned things. Strip away the names and everything I said, you would have to come to the same conclusion that if you knew what troubled a boxer, as we have 47 fights to see it, his future opponent doesn't do next to any of those things. So, if and when you continue to see Floyd fans as dismissive of this fight, most of us are because of what I just said. Now, the unexpected can always happen, but if both show up at their best, what I've written should be what takes place on May 2nd. A comfortable Floyd victory. I've said a few times that Manny is an ATG, this just isn't the fight for him though.