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Pacquiao-Mayweather fight looks inevitable
By Al S. Mendoza
REMEMBER this: Talks of a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight will never die down.
For as long as Manny Pacquiao is not retired, the specter of a fight happening between them will stick like a vulca seal, if not mighty bond.
For as long as Floyd Mayweather Jr. is not retired, their projected fight will haunt us longer than the longest coastline this world has ever known.
I do not like it happening.
It will just be a bore.
In this fight, Mayweather will run like hell, faster than Usain Bolt, if only to evade, not avoid, Pacquiao’s barrage of shots.
No, Mayweather wouldn’t even use a bicycle in the ring but a motorcycle—and make that a Harley-Davidson’s.
Mayweather will be too scared that he will ignore taunts and proceed to use his winged feet to run circles around Pacquiao.
Pacquiao will be literally reduced to a mere chaser—and a virtual wind he will be chasing in Mayweather.
It wouldn’t be a fight but a fake.
But still, it will happen.
I’ll bet my last buck it will be held next year.
It has to be 2015 because the year perfectly fits Mayweather’s bill.
He will be 38 in 2015, and even that age makes him a bit old already.
Well, at 36 next year, Pacquiao isn’t also spring chicken anymore.
But their duel will still look palatable as almost any fighter below 40 can still hack it—given that they maintain Spartan discipline.
Likewise, both Mayweather and Pacquiao seem to appear like magnificent pieces of engineering marvel that God had made them to be.
And isn’t Bernard Hopkins past 40 already and yet, he remains a world boxing champion?
Thus, Mayweather will agree to fight Pacquiao because the time for that has come—finally.
The ingredients are all there not to grab the opportunity.
One, Mayweather is 47-0 and that is just two fights shy of matching the 49-0 of the late Rocky Marciano.
Two, Mayweather has 2 fights left in his 6-fight, $100-million contract with Showtime.
Three, Mayweather will fight another so-so fighter for his 48th bout, using it as a tune-up for his 49th fight—which would be against Pacquiao.
The Pacquiao-Mayweather match will most probably be held November 2015.
Mayweather will gun for a dream-come-true 49-0 record.
Pacquiao is the only one capable of preventing that to happen.
It would be a mega fight so that the projected $300-million purse will be the highest of all time.
Now, add this to the script: Pacquiao will lose on points—very, very badly, that is, as in Mayweather winning on split decision.
Rematch would become inevitable, presenting Mayweather the unparalleled opportunity to make it 50-0 to break Marciano’s 49-0 mark.
How’s that for a Hollywood movie?
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