WATCH: Boxing legends discuss Pacquiao-Floyd fight

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Five fighters who have fought Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather shared their thoughts with HBO Boxing on what they believe will transpire when the two pound-for-pound kings meet on May 2 at the MGM Grand.
Jim Lampley met with Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley, who opened up about their meetings with both Pacquiao and Mayweather.
Also appearing on the feature were Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez, and Ricky Hatton.
Another analyst, Max Kellerman, also discussed the mega-fight with three legends of the sport – Lennox Lewis, George Foreman, and Bernard Hopkins.

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I challenge Mayweather to fight Pacquiao toe-to-toe, says Buboy Fernandez

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By Chris Williams: 

Manny Pacquiao’s helper/assistant manager Buboy Fernandez is daring Floyd Mayweather Jr to fight Pacquiao in a toe-to-toe manner in their bout on May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Buboy, who gushes about how hard Pacquiao is working out for the fight, likes Pacquiao’s chances of beating Mayweather if he can get him to fight in a brawling manner rather than by using his boxing skills.

Why Mayweather would want to volunteer to give Pacquiao a handicap for this fight is unclear. It sounds like Buboy is looking for a handicap from Mayweather by daring him to fight in a toe-to-toe battle. Some boxing fans would argue that Pacquiao has had plenty of handicaps in the past in the form of catch-weights that he’s fought at. So why would Pacquiao need a handicap for the Mayweather fight?
“I challenged Mayweather to fight toe-to-toe with our Pinoy boxing idol. He should prove to the world even just for this fight that he’s not a poltroon,” Buboy Fernandez said via Philboxing.com. “Our country is so blessed to have him and we are so lucky to have been part of his breathtaking journey towards boxing immortality,” Fernandez said.
I don’t know why Mayweather would have to agree to fight Pacquiao in a toe-to-toe battle unless Buboy is worried about Pacquiao’s ability to get the job done against Mayweather. But I don’t think Mayweather is going to agree to give Pacquiao a handicap for this fight. There’s too much money on the line for Mayweather to tie one of his hands behind his back so that the smaller 5’6” Pacquiao can have an advantage in the fight.
What Buboy is doing in challenging Mayweather to stand perfectly still in a stationary manner to trade with Pacquiao for 12 rounds would be the equivalent of Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellberbe daring Pacquiao to stay on the outside all night without jumping in and out so that he could fight Mayweather’s fight. I think Ellerbe would take a ton of heat from boxing fans if he tries to campaign for a handicap for Mayweather because it would look bad.
I won’t be surprised if Pacquiao doesn’t take any criticism from fans due to Buboy asking Mayweather to give Pacquiao an advantage [handicap] for their fight. It is kind of sad that you’ve got Buboy making a request like this from Mayweather because it suggests that he’s not confident enough in Pacquiao’s skills for him to be able to deal with Mayweather’s mobility and boxing ability.
If Pacquiao isn’t good enough to handle Mayweather’s mobility and overall talent in the ring, then he doesn’t deserve to win the fight. It doesn’t make sense for one of Team Pacquiao to be making a request to Mayweather for a handicap for this fight. The thing is if Mayweather agrees to give Pacquiao a handicap, he’ll cheapen the win for the 36-year-old Filipino star, although I suppose it wouldn’t be recognized by the fans because they wouldn’t be aware that Mayweather purposefully fought Pacquiao in a toe-to-toe manner to fulfill a request made by his helper/assistant manager Buboy.
“We’ve been together for years but we are still mesmerized by what our boyhood buddy is showing to us inside and outside of the training camp. His hard work and attitude in training is simply beyond compare,” Fernandez said.
It’s going to be a real problem for Pacquiao if Mayweather chooses to box him and use mobility on May 2nd rather than him taking Buboy up on his offer and just standing there in front of Pacquiao for 12 rounds like Pacquiao’s recent opponents Tim Bradley, Chris Algieri and Brandon Rios all did.
Mayweather could surprise Pacquiao and his team by him walking him down and unloading on him with big power shots. In this case, Buboy wouldn’t be getting his wish by Mayweather going toe-to-toe with Pacquiao, but I don’t think that’s what Buboy is looking for. I think he wants Mayweather to stand perfectly still and not come forward, backs or move laterally. If Mayweather decides to come forward and go on the attack for 12 rounds, it probably won’t be what Buboy is looking for in this fight.
My impression is he just wants Mayweather to be there directly in front of Pacquiao without him moving a muscle with his feet saos that Pacquiao can be the one that is picking his moments to attack and retreat. In other words, Pacquiao will have a guy that he can jump in and jump out against if Mayweather stands stationary for him to get his shots off. But Pacquiao won’t likely do nearly as well if Mayweather is coming at him constantly for 12 rounds and taking away the in and out game that Pacquiao likes to use in his fights.
Pacquiao is not effective when he has a guy that comes at him in fights. Look at his four fights with Juan Manuel Marquez. When Marquez walked Pacquiao down, Pacquiao gave ground and didn’t look good at all. If Mayweather gets Pacquiao in the retreat mode for 12 rounds, it’s going to play out as a very, very easy fight for Mayweather with him battering Pacquiao and putting him in a near helpless state.
This is obviously going to be a tough fight for Pacquiao because he’s not facing the type of guys that his promoter Bob Arum has been feeding him over the years. Arum has kept Pacquiao looking good by matching him against beatable opposition that he was able to dominate. Feeding him Rios, Bradley and Algieri has rejuvenated Pacquiao’s career following his knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012. But I think it’s going to go really bad for Pacquiao on May 2nd, especially if Mayweather walks him down or uses any kind of movement in this fight. I think Pacquiao would have his way if Mayweather just stood still like Buboy wants him to in the fight, but Mayweather isn’t going to give away a huge handicap like that to Pacquiao. He’s got a brain and he’s not going to follow then same game plan as many of Pacquiao’s recent opponents have been using against him.

source: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2015/04/i-challenge-mayweather-to-fight-pacquiao-toe-to-toe-says-buboy-fernandez/#more-190587

Mayweather not worried about Pacquiao’s high volume attack

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By Chris Williams: 

It’s increasingly clear that Manny Pacquiao’s game plan for the Floyd Mayweather Jr fight is to throw a ton of punches and hope that Mayweather can’t defend against them all when they get inside the ring on May 2nd.
The high punch volume attack is an idea that Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach dreamed up six years ago when he first started talking about which game plan would work against Mayweather. Now six years later boxing fans will get a chance to see for themselves whether Roach knows what he’s talking about or if he’s merely deluded like he was when he was Oscar De La Hoya’s trainer for the Mayweather fight in 2007. Roach’s game plan didn’t work in that fight, and it’s quite possible that his game plan will come up empty for the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.

“I really don’t know,” Mayweather said via Mlive.com about what he thinks the 36-year-old Pacquiao will be trying to do against him on May 2nd. “I think my focus is always being in control and dictating the pace. You’ve got guys who throw a lot of punches — you know, a majority of the time, I think that everyone game-plans to throw a lot of punches. It hasn’t worked so far. But I’ve faced a lot of great fighters, a lot of guys going down in the Hall of Fame, and guys going down in history as top guys.”
Pacquiao is going to try to do what many other fighters have done against Mayweather by going out there and putting stupid pressure on him for as long as he can.
Mayweather acknowledges this same old tired plan has been tried again and again in the past, and it never works. Even arguably the best pressure fighter in boxing, Marcos Maidana, was unable to defeat Mayweather with his pressure, power and huge size.
Madaina weighed 165 pounds in his first fight with Mayweather in 2014, and it failed to lead him to victory. Pacquiao isn’t nearly as good at putting pressure on his opponents as Maidana. Instead of putting nonstop pressure on his opponents, Pacquiao likes to jump in and jump out, which gives his opponents a break from the pressure. It also makes it easy to time Pacquiao when he jumps in to make an attack.
Mayweather says that throwing a lot of punches at him doesn’t work, and he’s right about that. If Pacquiao doesn’t heed Mayweather’s words and come up with a new and fresh plan for the fight on May 2nd, then I can see Mayweather straight up clowning the Filipino star in front of a huge worldwide audience.
For Pacquiao’s sake, he needs to come up with some new ideas because he’s not fighting Joshua Clottey or Brandon Rios, two of Bob Arum’s old Top Rank stable fighters.
When you watch Pacquiao workout, you’ll notice that he throws a lot of quick flurries less than a foot in front of him rather than extending his arms the way normal fighters do when punching. I think this is a real waste of time for Pacquiao, because Mayweather isn’t going to be crowding Pacquiao to within 10 inches for Pacquiao to throw his shot flurries all night long. That’s a style that is useless against Mayweather because he fights on the outside.
I’m surprised that Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach hasn’t pulled Pacquiao aside and told him ‘You might want to lengthen your punches because Mayweather doesn’t have T-Rex arms. Those flurries you’re throwing are going to be coming up short two feet of the target on May 2nd.’ Seriously, Pacquiao is punching at air as if he thinks Mayweather is going to be clued to him within breathing room rather than Mayweather standing three to four feet in front of Pacquiao all night long.
When you see Pacquiao making constant mistakes in his training, it makes you wonder if Roach is asleep at the wheel in his training. You want to shake some sense into him. Roach should be correcting that kind of stuff instead of him just holding the mitts and whispering words of encouragement to the 36-year-old Filipino star. Maybe Roach has been training Pacquiao too long, and he’s unable to get some perspective on the mistakes he’s making.
If Pacquiao tries the old high volume punch attack trick against Mayweather on May 2nd, I can see it going really badly for Pacquiao. I can see him getting schooled badly by Mayweather with him lighting Pacquiao up like a Christmas tree.
Mayweather doesn’t say what he’s going to do in this fight against Pacquiao, but it’s pretty clear that he’s going to be taking advantage of Pacquiao’s wildness by countering him constantly and making him pay for all of his attempts at landing a lot of shots. If Pacquiao doesn’t learn to stop throwing punches on his own, then Mayweather is going to look to teach him.


source: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2015/04/mayweather-not-worried-about-pacquiaos-high-punch-volume-attack/#more-190608

Bernard Hopkins: Mayweather beats Pacquiao by 'controversial' decision

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Bernard Hopkins, the sophist of the sweet science, who fought well past the maxims of logic and physics, spoke with CBSSports.com on a montage of topics, including the epic bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao.
Perhaps no fighter can opine on the red-carpet opulence leading up to the fight like Hopkins, who lorded over the last two generations of boxers.
Hopkins is the last bona fide champion since boxing's big bang, leaving the sport with fragments of every belt, a constellation of consonants that have rendered a each division with some splintered version of the title.
Which makes Hopkins' old-world dominance poignant and pertinent. Having defended his middleweight crown 20 times, Hopkins has earned his place in the pantheon, next to Marvin Hagler and Carlos Monzon -- the only two middleweights ranked ahead of him, according to The Ring magazine.
Equally pensive in and out of the ring, B-Hop has defied dementia, poverty, and most of the post-pugilism maladies that ail so many fighters. And while Hopkins doesn't see the May 2 bout as a referendum on the sport, he's more than happy to hype and chat it up.
"First six rounds, possibly less, it's gonna be a tornado," Hopkins says when asked how he sees Mayweather-Pacquiao going down. "Because of Pacquiao's style, he will try to overwhelm Mayweather. If [Mayweather] gets through [that first rush], he will defeat him."
Hopkins, who spoke while driving from a photo shoot on Long Island back to his native Philadelphia, doesn't speak in the same platitudes you hear from folks who still make a dime off boxing. No former or current boxer has his amalgam of experience and expertise.
"Mayweather will have to make adjustments, make Pacquiao think before he reacts," Hopkins says. "If he can, it can be like taking candy from a baby. If he can do that, make adjustments as far as distance ... Pacquiao jumps in and out. He's not Maidana or Cotto."
Hopkins doesn't share the sentiment that a knockout loss like the one Pacquiao suffered against Juan Manuel Marquez will shadow him on May 2. "Erase that Marquez tape," Hopkins asserted. "Pacquiao just jumped in at the wrong time."
Losing on one punch versus a 12-round assault is a salient distinction, according to B-Hop. "You can recover from the one-shot knockout. It's not that that kills you," he says. "It's getting dominated that lasts. Because that pain from round one to twelve getting whipped sticks with you."
Hopkins seems to at least partially share Mike Tyson's take on the bout. During his animated analysis of the fight -- which went viral moments after he posted it to YouTube -- Tyson declared that Pacquiao has the kind of tornadic style that gives Mayweather issues. Volume is victory, if you'd prefer the Cliffs Notes.
"Floyd has to produce more than he has before," Hopkins said. "in terms of punching. He's not fighting [Ricky] Hatton. Pacquiao can bring it all night, so Floyd's jab and counterpunching will be key.
"I see Floyd making the adjustments," says the self-styled "Executioner," who's theatrical ring entrances and verbose persona made Hopkins one of the last and most authentic characters in the sport. "But by no means will this be a cakewalk. Floyd can just as well lose as win."
Hopkins inhales, a rare pause in a man who talks like he's paid by the word. "I say Floyd wins by controversial decision."

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