Floyd Mayweather Jr. still afraid of Pacquiao?

After Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeated Canelo Alvarez via unanimous decision last September 15, 2013 opened up and answered some questions.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is still not interested fighting Manny Pacquiao. And it's clear that Floyd still has fear of getting defeated.

“I want to take my promotion to another level. I am not thinking about Manny Pacquiao,”

Many of the boxing fans around the world still criticize Floyd Mayweather Jr. ford ducking Pacquiao. Floyd Mayweather Jr. also admitted that he handpicked his opponents.

Before the fight against Canelo Alvarez Floyd said during the conference together with the reporters.


"Sometimes they say, 'Well, Floyd Mayweather's opponents was handpicked.' That's a good thing. I commend my team ... when I sit back and I think about my career, I say 'you know what? I had a cool career. I didn't take any punishment"

So Floyd Mayweather Jr. was avoiding potential fighters that has the ability and skills to defeat him. Or worse fighters that could destroy his boxing career one of them is Manny Pacquiao.

As a boxing fans athlete's like Floyd don't earn my respect. And might as well not be considered as one of the best boxers of all time. If you love your fans and the sport then do it for the fans and not for fame and money.

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Is Manny Pacquiao really Broke?

A lot of rumors out their are going viral that the former pound for pound champion Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao is broke. Issues like these are now everywhere from media to social networking sites. Now this bankruptcy issue that Pacquiao is facing is really not gonna help him on his next fight with Rios.

Instead of hyping and promoting his next game vs Brandon Rios Pacquiao is facing a different media exposure. A close friend triggered this issue when Rex "Wakee" Salud said that Pacquiao's money was already gone.

Cebuano:"Di lang kay nahurothurot, hurot gyud! "
English: He did not just lose his money, he lost all of it

And then Rex Wakee Salud denied after media questioned him and this was his new statement:

Tagalog: Wala akong sinabi na ganun. Pinalaki lang nung writer 
English: I didn’t say anything like that. The writer merely exaggerated it

Tagalog: Ang sabi ko lang … baka medyo gipit. Kasi isang taon nang walang laban, nanibago yung lifestyle. Pero hindi ko sinabi na bangkarote na.
English: maybe he's a bit short. Because he hasn’t fought for a year now, he changed his lifestyle. But I didn’t say he's bankrupt

If you want to promote a fight for a friend this is not the right way. This would seemingly lost someone's interest to fight. And also the fans would think another hidden agenda since people would generally say. A MUST WIN FOR PACQUIAO BECAUSE HE NEEDS MONEY. or on the other hand "He is fighting for the money and not for the sport anymore".

These are just some common perspective that people would conclude the moment Pacquiao and Rios would collide. With all due respect to Pacquiao he is a great and kind person who helps a lot to his countrymen.

I saw a video that Pacquiao gave some of his money to their neighbors. He also donated some of his money from calamity victims without hesitation.

Here are some of them that are even captured by the news and media networks:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/241701/pacquiao-donates-p2-75-m-of-own-money-for-sarangani-housing-project
http://global.christianpost.com/news/manny-pacquiao-uses-prize-money-from-bradley-bout-to-help-filipino-flood-victims-76846/

In my points of view I don't really agree that Manny is broke. I know that his wife Jinkee Pacquiao knows how to handle and take care their properties including Pacquiao's money.

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Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley

Another one of the most anticipated  and most awaited fight from the pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao is going in the ring against undefeated Timothy Bradley on June 09,2012 at MGM Nevada Las Vegas.

This is one of the biggest fight for Timothy Bradley and another day at the office for Manny Pacquiao whose on an impressive winning streak since 2005.

Fight analysis.

Manny Pacquiao:

Fist Brawl
If Timothy Bradley would brawl and would join Pacquiao in a slug fest for sure he won't see those punches coming. Since we all know Manny Pacquiao is capable of unleashing those combination of punches almost all sorts of angles.  And Manny could go up to twelve rounds of non stop action so this is his advantage over Bradley.

Speed
Since we saw Manny Pacquiao exploding with tremendous speed of punches. He is capable of establishing a berserk kind of attack to his opponents. Especially if he realizes that his enemy is on a bad situation. Manny just unleashes those fist of fury punches to land and beat his enemies.

Experience
Manny Pacquiao has certainly a lot of experience with it comes to boxing. He fought a lot of tough opponents. From Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito, Shane Mosley, Oscar Dela Hoya, Juan Manuel Marquez and at lot more.

Power
A lot of boxers have seen this in Manny Pacquiao's fight and some of them just went down the canvass after Pacquiao successfully landed those big shots. And Pacquiao has power on both of his hands so this what makes him deadly.

Timothy Bradley

Guts
Timothy has nothing to lose in this fight this is one of those moments he has to step up and accept the challenge. And he has to realize that it's once in a life time match so he should be inspired and have full confidence that he can defeat a living legend.

Power
Timothy Bradley has also some knockout power punches. And he normally waits for this moment to come and then just explode those power bombs from his hands.

Clever and Defense
Timothy can dodge and evade some attacks from his opponents and his is one of this advantage. He also has good defense by which he can out stand some abuse and power attacks from his opponents.

Youth
Timothy is much younger than Pacquiao so this is also an advantage for him were in he has that gas and stamina to go and fight Pacquiao.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Miguel Cotto Predictions

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Vs Miguel Cotto is an great match were in both fighters possess the top quality skills of boxing. And also this would be one of those awaited match in the history of boxing. As the undefeated Mayweather would defend his unblemished record against one of the best boxers in the light middle weight division. And Miguel Cotto would defend his WBA Super light middleweight title against Mayweather Jr.

The fight would happen on May 5,2012 on Las Vegas Nevada


Tale of the tape:
Floyd Mayweather                        Miguel Cotto
Age: 35                                         Age:31
height: 5'8                                    height: 5'7
Reach: 72"                                   Reach: 67"

Both fighters are seemingly close with it comes to statistics. But Miguel Cotto has the youth advantage over Mayweather. While Floyd has the reach advantage also against Miguel Cotto.

MY PREDICTION:

Both fighters display great awareness on each other. They would recognize each presence in the early rounds. Miguel Cotto would still use that basic jab punches of him which is also a good tool and advantage for him. Cotto has great Jab punch compared to Mayweather based on the fights that they have. But Floyd will also rely on this quickness and speed to counter Cotto's attack and also evade them.

If Cotto can't knock out Floyd Mayweather Jr or have a very dominating performance.Then the fight would go to distance and it would end up into the hands of the judges.  But if Cotto could build that momentum and Floyd would also exchange punches then it's gonna be a very entertaining match to watch.  Floyd has to be careful also since Cotto has great defense and attack power. While Cotto has to be aware of those sneaky punches and counter hooks that Floyd will also use against him.

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