fight was great, don't know how anybody can see it wasn't entertaining, crowd was on the edge of it's seat the entire time, no booing
and they paid insane prices
boxing is about the confrontation, the event, fight wasn't boring, santa cruz fight was boring because it seemed like it would never end, these rounds went by so quick I wish they were 15
Manny impressed with his boxing skill, I thought he would get knocked out, but he can box when he wants too, made floyd miss often with shots that would have hurt him bad if landed clean
Floyd looks old as fukk, its time for him to retire, but he still dominated, pac only won 2 rounds
The key to this fight was Floyd's ability to keep his lead foot on the inside of pacquiao's, which would also keep a manny on an angle where he would be out of position and not able to aim at floyd's center line
the fact manny never tried to his lead feet inside of floyd's is a mystery to me
They both hurt each other a few times, both fought smart, people are complaining because manny couldn't do any of the things they imagined, but that's with any opponent who fights mayweather, he controls distance and range, manny wasn't scared to throw, he couldn't, floyd control the angle with his lead foot, pacquiao couldn't get pass that first line of defense the whole night, and floyd controlled distance wit his jab
it was often manny was in position to throw, had he do one so he would be caught out of position and hurt really bad, so he did the only thing he could do, and waited for spots where he could throw
Floyd even explained how he would do this on his special where he's hitting the heavy bag
good fight, great showcase of boxing IQ and skills
This why Paulie should've been on the broadcast team instead of Lampley who doesn't know anything about boxing and can never explain what is happening in the ring
The commentary made it seem like the fight was boring because people couldn't understand what was happening because the two moved so fast, trying to figure each other out
if an expert was commentating he could highlight all the things I mentioned and people can start to understand the sport
When you have people who have no clue about what it takes to win a boxing match commentating on it like espn do, it's a bad for the sport, because the general public can't learn about the tactics of the sport
people saying he fight is a disappointment, I just don't understand, why watch boxing at all, at any given time manny couldn't hurt floyd or vice versa, and finished the fight, that type of tension is enough to get your eyes clued on the screen, just because it didn't happen doesn't mean the threat wasn't there
If this fight happened 5 years early, pacquiao would've got blown out the water, Floyd's reflexes are nowhere near when he fought marquez, yet the same strategy could still be implied
also the straight right to the body, to substitute for the jab to the body, was masterful on floyd's point on how he delivered those shots
Did Floyd land ANY of them punches clean?