Mayweather-Pacquiao prediction: Manny will get schooled by Floyd

By Manuel Perez: I have to say that I’m really looking forward to seeing the March 13th bout between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Pacquiao has been feasting on hand picked opponents for the past year, and will finally be forced to fight someone good for a change. It’s going to be sad to see Pacquiao take a vicious beating from Mayweather, but what can you do?

This is the by product of stepping in the ring with an excellent boxer instead of fighters that punch compromised like Ricky Hatton or beaten down ones like Miguel Cotto. Pacquiao has given the illusion of being a super talented fighter, I think, because of the careful match making that he’s had going for him. Instead of putting Pacquiao in with the best welterweight in the division in the place of Shane Mosley, Pacquiao instead was steered towards the recently beaten Cotto, who had been stopped in the 11th round in a horrible beating by proud Mexican Antonio Margarito only a year earlier.

Since that loss, Cotto hadn’t looked like the same fighter, which is what makes it so sad that he was selected to fight Pacquiao instead of Mosley. It reeks of cherry picking through and through. I can’t stand when fighters cherry pick to find beatable fighters. I think if Pacquiao had fought Mosley at welterweight, we wouldn’t even be bothering talking about a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, because Pacquiao would have been beaten.

Pacquiao may have gotten away with beating hand picked opponents Cotto, Ricky Hatton and Oscar De La Hoya, but on March 13th, Pacquiao will have to finally face a good fighter in the way of 32-year-old Mayweather. And by putting off facing still lethal fighters, Pacquiao will be sloppy and and vulnerable against the much more talented Mayweather.

Pacquiao is going to literally get the stuffing beaten out of him on March 13th. He’s going to take his wild out of control style of fighting and be worked over by the boxing extraordinaire Mayweather. This is going to be fun to watch. I hope Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s trainer, is ready to stop the fight at some point because it’s going to be a hopeless slaughter.

Mayweather is light years better than Pacquiao is talent wise, and he’s going to make an example of Pacquiao by beating him one side of the ring to another in front of a huge world wide audience. They’re talking about this fight earning as much as $100 million.

I can’t say that it will be worth it. I think Mayweather is worth it, but Pacquiao won’t be when he starts taking an early beating. This is going to be a huge let down fight for those who were hoping to see a close contest. I’ll be happy, especially when Mayweather starts busting Pacquiao up. It’s going to be priceless to see the look on Roach’s face when he sees his star fighter Pacquiao begin to take a one-sided beating. But that’s the way it goes.

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