Rolling Boxing Thread / Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather

They're rebroadcasting this right now and I'm watching it again, because I enjoy watching Martinez fight so much.

Smoker is a great ref, too. He should get a manager working his name out there -- Mills Lane managed to get enough PR to parlay his ref job into more work, and this guy's fantastic

Darchinyan looking very, very mean vs. Perez in round 1

Darchinyan showboating in round 5, evidently running the fight but looking like a real asshole

Wow these odds:

Manny Pacquiao - KO or TKO or Disqualification 4/6
Manny Pacquiao - Decision or Technical Decision 6/4
Shane Mosley - KO or TKO or Disqualification 9/1
Shane Mosley - Decision or Technical Decision 25/1
Draw or Technical Draw 50/1

is the "Anticipating Manny vs. Mayweather" part of the thread title meant to be read as a sick joke at this point

Shane looked 1) in amazing shape and 2) remarkably composed, even for him, during interviews at last night's Friday Night Fights card. Interesting, because I've seen him at ringside grabbing mic time where he seems kinda desperate and unconvincing, but honestly he looks to have had a great camp.

That said, Pacquiao in 9.

man naseem richardson is such an intense individual

paquiao in 7.I like mosely-at age 29. Mayweather still a fucking pussy.

I think Pac in rounds 4-6. You have to move your head against Pac or you end up like Maragrito (best case) or Hatton (not best case).

countdown announcer just gave out a top-five dumbest things ever said in sports hype line: "when champion manny pacquiao is in town, the playbook doesn't just go out the window; it simply doesn't exist."

this is a verbatim fucking quote.

that is incredibly dumb. what is the implication, you just streetfight pacquiao? riiight.

yeah it's completely ahistorical. if anything, Pacquiao is a more classic coming-forward fighter than anything else; he'd be fightable if it weren't for his ridiculous heart. but the boxing establishment needs to make hay while the sun shines so they're making all manner of claims about it. which, to be fair, he's easily the most exciting fighter since Tyson, so you can't blame 'em.

I'll take Pac on a TKO in 8.

don't know if you guys are seeing the undercard but this kid lopez is GAME.

still lost by majority decision. LL Cool J now giving great patter in the press booth

I don't have that PPV cheddar but would love ilxor commentary!

this vasquez jr - arce fight is a brawl. totally amazing rock-em sock-em robots action

vasquez jr. v. arce was a completely fantastic undercard fight fyi

opening of the 12th round was a moment of real beauty, too - the fighters touched gloves but then really spontaneously just looked at each other & embraced in the middle of the ring - beautiful, beautiful fight

epic by all accounts, can't wait to see it

fuckin Christ the amount of in-the-ring stuff before the fight is ridiculous. I'm not going to cover the fight on thread, I'm just gonna watch the fight, but...both "Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" (the latter sung, beautifully I should say, by Jaime Foxx)? C'mon. One anthem per side please.

holy fuck tho LL is doing "Mama Said Knock You Out" for Shane's ring walk and it is fucking electrifying. Hope somebody uploads it somewhere because he's killing it

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watching this while listening to "Here I Go (Again on my own)". Adding a lot to the experience tbh.

The problem with following fights online

(12:15pm) Round 3 - Pacquiao's speed forces Mosley to back-pedal. Pacquiao decks Mosley with a left straight to the face. A lopsided round for Manny. Pacquiao 10-8

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Round 3. They trade straight power shots to the midsection in the first minute. Pacquiao gets in two lefts that back Mosley up. Pacquiao drops Mosley with a right hook with a minute to go. Mosley gets up at "six." Pacquiao measures Mosley for his straight left, but the 39-year-old vet holds on to clear his head and run out the clock. (Pacquiao's round, 10-8)

Weird fight. Neither guy real aggrerssive. Vasquez-arce fight was fantastic, too bad the guys father threw the towel in.

I disagree with the posts above-ll cool j and the plastic surgery disaster in pacs corner singing the guys into the ring was supremely cheesy.

jesus louise finally some energy in the 10th

how many punches has mosley even landed? like, two?

Wondering if pac is dogging it to bait mayweather into taking his skirt off. Just got knocked down

Mosely has done nothing. A lame performance.

Too bad we are not seeing a repeat of what pacqiao did to that fraud hatton. Moseley deserves that treatment.

Mosely showed grace & class in the Jim Grey interview in the ring

but yeah Vasquez Jr v Arce was the best fight on the card. Pacquiao as people keep pointing out wasn't as busy as he normally is, didn't seem to have the desire to close the deal.

If you like rap and you didn't feel LL's flow on "Mama Said" then you are high or something, not in the good sense of "high"

crap fight

thought pacquiao would finish it w/in a couple of rounds after that third

v strange lassitude overwhelming him after that...

He's a good guy (meaning moseley). I've always liked him a lot. I think its over, though

Xxpost. Not a big rap fan. Not high either, unfortunately. Thought the ll cool j- frank stallone wannabe combo was embarrassing. Quite frankly, it sucked so bad it was funny

he was in a fender-bender earlier today I guess? I couldn't believe a fighter'd even be able to put in any performance at all after getting nerves rattled like that. This was the worst Manny fight I've seen by some distance - the Margarito fight was fire, this only had flashes of what makes Pacquiao great. Still that "if you hit me, it inspires me" thing, he turned it on a few times and it's always like WHOA HERE WE GO.

by frank stallone wannabe do you mean jimi jamison, the lead singer of survivor?

such a waste of gus johnson

all the intro stuff was p terrible

just a payday for sugar shane, he never had a chance

if the shane who fought floyd had showed up he might have! weirdly uninspired from both fighters - living up to hype is hard but Pacquiao usually rises to the occasion. But it helps to have a villain. Margarito was perfect - 70s style club fighter gone widescreen, refuse-to-fall punishment-absorbing built-for-storyline. What's Shane's story? That Floyd put him off until he was overripe. It made for a compelling fight against Floyd, but with Pacquiao, the presumption that Pac was going to knock him out and Shane being too classy to get pissed about it meant there just wasn't a whole lot of tension.

Still, when Pac unleashes those rapidfire combos, I get a huge fanboy rush. Always beautiful to see.

(xp) gus is good when working boxing? he is so terrible with mma

Yes I mean that jamison guy. Didn't know mosely was in an accident. To be honest, I respect both fighters. I think pacquiao is one of those game changing guys you get once in a generation, like the guy who died today, seve ballesteros. They have that "it" factor.

Aerosmith-i agree word for word with your 119 post

no gus is not good doing boxing

No Pacquiao was in the fender-bender.

The Margarito fight was SO fun.

btw Pacquiao haters within seconds of the fight are posting this nonsense about him being juiced on EPO & that's the only way he wins fights. If you're not familiar with Pacquiao haters, they are some of the most unhinged nutballs on the web. Right after every fuckin' body else of course.

Gus rules at baksketball and football.

Who could hate pacqiaou? He's one of my favorite athletes ever. A class dude in every way.

Man a lot of people hate Pacquiao. Especially people who're susceptible to conspiracy theory - Floyd's headgame "blood test 30 days before the fight! no two weeks! no 72 hours!" bit really got into people's heads - they claim Manny's juicing (w/EPO, very hard to test for), that he makes people age out of their prime before he gives 'em a shot, etc. but honestly a lot of it's just straight-out hateration - Manny could jump through all their hoops & they'd still say HE'S JUICING! etc

Mayweather either fights him or goes down in history as a punk and a chump