The Unofficial Mayweather v. Pacquiao Thread

in particular if billy bob and Cletus happen to be rooting against the person or team you are.

 

Excuse me?! Did you just disrespect me bro?

I like a salt of the earth crowd, but fight night draws out the worst of the worst. Rednecks, jersey shore, wannabe thugs. Its ridiculous.

 

I was in vegas last year during the first round of the NFL playoffs. oh my. try finding a chick without an obvious tattoo.

 

I'll say this: I'm predicting Mayweather will win and it's always nice when one's predictions to out to be correct, but it wouldn't break my heart if Pacquiao won. I think he's pretty clearly a better human .

 

I'm on team Better Human.

 

Mayweather was jobbed as badly as anything I've ever seen in the Atlanta olympics. He's a straight up sack of crap as a human, but he was screwed. Maybe karma owes him something.

 

I don't see how a debate could be made that he isn't a better human.

 

That's the best part.

 

Mayweather is 47-0 and made half a billion dollars as a relatively boring, defensive fighter, especially the latter half of his career. I think he got his karma.

He did get screwed, though. Not as bad as Roy Jones, but Mayweather's "loss" in 1996 was horsepoop.

 

Jones was the other I'd consider close, but Mayweather put on a clinic and lost. Dude is flat out made for Olympic scoring.

 

Ha!

 

Yeah, but I consider Mayweather's screw job as incompetence whereas Jones was as corrupt as they come. Mayweather also simply outpointed his opponent, but Jones beat the snot out of the Korean dude to the point where the Korean dude was visibly embarrassed by the decision.

 

fair enough. Both were beatings by Olympic scoring standards.

 

I'm not big on the sentimental fluff pieces that seem to inundate the airwaves during every big sporting event, but I did find this story fairly interesting. I knew that Pacquiao had experienced some crazy shit, but this was still fairly surprising.

[video]http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=12767400[/video]

 

I'm ****ing pissed that I'm going to miss this. **** work.

 

Both him and Roy Jones Jr. got the shaft. It's weird how that happened -- the two guys who ended up being the best P4P fighters in the world for many years both got the **** sandwich at the olympics.

ETA: I know see that RJJr has already been mentioned.

 

I agree with this. I would call the Jones Jr. decision an even more egregious rip job than the Mayweather one. Though both are good solid rip jobs.

 

the media hype machine is as bad as I've ever seen it for an upcoming fight.

 

It's really too bad this didn't happen a couple of years ago.

 

This is boxing's swan song. Will get my $100.