Only Mayweather knows if a rematch will happen or not

By Al S. Mendoza

 

IF you believe that a syndicate can manipulate the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, then this is for you.

First Scenario:

Fight Number One:  Mayweather wins on points.

Fight Number Two:  Pacquiao wins either by knockout or decision.

Fight Number Three:  Anybody’s ball game.

On Fight Number One on May 2 (May 3 in the Philippines), it is a must-win for Mayweather so that he remains unbeaten.

A Mayweather win will give him a 48-0 record, ensuring another saleable fight in a Fight Number Two with Pacquiao.

Reason?  With a second fight with Pacquiao, Mayweather would be gunning for his 49th straight win—affording him the luxury of equaling Rocky Marciano’s all-time best of 49-0.

Remember Marciano?

He was the late world heavyweight champion who retired 49-0 to become the only world champion to retire undefeated.

No boxer today has the strongest chance to equal Marciano’s record except Mayweather, who is 47-0 before he fights Pacquiao barely two months from now.

Mayweather beating Pacquiao in May assures him of a 48-0 record, making him one fight shy of matching Marciano’s 49-0 mark.

Just imagine the hoopla and frenzy a second Pacquiao-Mayweather fight would generate because of that possibility of tying Marciano’s 49-0 set in the Fifties yet.

But, of course, in order to make a rematch palatable, the outcome of the first Pacquiao-Mayweather should also dictate that a second fight is a necessity, a must.

And so, Mayweather should win not by knockout but on points.

And on points, I mean by decision.

It can either be a majority decision or a unanimous decision but not decisively, convincingly.

How will Mayweather do it?

He knows it best how to do it:

One, hit and run.

Two, run circles around Pacquiao.

Three, clinch and push Pacquiao each time PacMan is on attack mode.

Mayweather is boxing’s master of the elbow, he is impeccable when telegraphing a punch about to be unleashed.

Mayweather isn’t boxing’s best defensive strategist for nothing.

So, Mayweather can do it if he wishes to:  Control the fight so as to program its ultimate outcome.

Like one piloting a Boeing 747, if not the A380 (the world’s biggest commercial jet today), Mayweather can even put the bout in cruise control and emerge from it unscathed.

Now, better yet and to avoid doubts and possible complications, Mayweather should win Fight Number One by split decision.

That way, the boxing crowd—the sucker nonpareil in all of sports—will holler with all its might demanding for a rematch.

The syndicate will then know what to do next.

There is a Second Scenario to this but that is another story.

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