[Superthread] Mayweather vs Pacman **NO STREAMING REQUESTS**

xtal191

qwabercd

Unfortunately I'll be at the home house the weekend of the fight, where all we have is a free to air dish. Does anyone know if it's possible to pay for the fight if you have a free to air dish? As far as I recall the likes of sky box office are on the dish but obviously they're not available if you haven't paid for them.

Pighead

Most of you probably know where all the money is coming from to fund this mega fight but for those that don't here's a breakdown of where it's all being generated.

http://www.the42.ie/mayweather-pacquiao-superfight-money-2062576-Apr2015/?utm_source=twitter_self

walshb

Pighead wrote: »

Most of you probably know where all the money is coming from to fund this mega fight but for those that don't here's a breakdown of where it's all being generated.

http://www.the42.ie/mayweather-pacquiao-superfight-money-2062576-Apr2015/?utm_source=twitter_self

I figured that, but thanks for the link as it details it and breaks it down nicely. Enjoyed that!

BTW, it's fcuking obscene for a spar!:)

This really stood out. I think the previous live gate record was about 21 million for the PBF-Canelo fight. About 20 million dollars.

"Ticket sales — Gate receipts at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas will generate $72 million thanks to tickets ranging in price from $1,500 to $7,500."

Liamc1234

Does anyone know if there are any venues in Galway or the anywhere in West showing the fight?

Thank you

walshb

Liamc1234 wrote: »

Does anyone know if there are any venues in Galway or the anywhere in West showing the fight?

Thank you

I wouldn't have a clue, but I would suggest the Galway Tourism Board. Email them and ask. You never know...

http://www.galwaytourism.ie/

Liamc1234

Thank you, I will try that.

mr leitrim

Mayweather takes this the distance and wins on points. Most likely a unanimous decision.
His defensive style will wear Pacquiao down by round 10, then the energy Mayweather has saved by holding (allowed by his favourite referee); will mean his has fuel in the tank to pick off shots rounds 10-12. Mayweather will keep Pacquiao out of range the whole fight, shoulder rolling his southpaw. When Pacquiao gets tired round 10 onwards Mayweather will check hook and jab him. Its going to be a long defensive fight, with many thrown by Pacquiao but few landed. Mayweather will throw less but land more, and land accurately. The 5" reach advantage Mayweather has means he has the range advantage. MOD SNIP
There is no way that Mayweather will risk losing that 48-0 legacy. he has lost some speed in the the last 5 years, but he still has the stamina and fitness to take fights 12 rounds. On the other hand, Pacquiao has lost some speed, but he can't keep up his work rate for 10-12 rounds; especially not against someone taller and heavier. Mayweather will be punching down, and Pacquiao up; and over 12 rounds the fatigue will show on the up puncher.

Talib Fiasco

mr leitrim wrote: »

Mayweather takes this the distance and wins on points. Most likely a unanimous decision.
His defensive style will wear Pacquiao down by round 10, then the energy Mayweather has saved by holding (allowed by his favourite referee); will mean his has fuel in the tank to pick off shots rounds 10-12. Mayweather will keep Pacquiao out of range the whole fight, shoulder rolling his southpaw. When Pacquiao gets tired round 10 onwards Mayweather will check hook and jab him. Its going to be a long defensive fight, with many thrown by Pacquiao but few landed. Mayweather will throw less but land more, and land accurately. The 5" reach advantage Mayweather has means he has the range advantage. MOD SNIP.
There is no way that Mayweather will risk losing that 48-0 legacy. he has lost some speed in the the last 5 years, but he still has the stamina and fitness to take fights 12 rounds. On the other hand, Pacquiao has lost some speed, but he can't keep up his work rate for 10-12 rounds; especially not against someone taller and heavier. Mayweather will be punching down, and Pacquiao up; and over 12 rounds the fatigue will show on the up puncher.

What a bizarre post. First of all if Floyd decides to start boxing at round ten then he's lost the fight and lost by near shut out. The shoulder roll is pretty ineffective against southpaw and can actually be detrimental to him. I'd be shocked if he uses it much. The steroid accusation doesn't warrant a serious comment tbh...drivel. Manny had fought bigger and taller guys than Floyd and whooped them. Floyds height and weight will have very little influence, it never does...it'd his skill. Floyd will probably win but this is no sure thing. Floyd has never been so nervous about a fight ever. He's never displayed so much doubt about his ability to win a fight as he is now. Floyd is worried about Manny. If the Floyd of Maidana 1 turns up he's in really bad shape. Manny even now is easily the best guy Floyd will ever face. He didn't want the fight, it was forced on him...his 0 is seriously under threat. The only reason he's taking the fight is fir money. Let's be real here Floyd woukd probably trade his 0 for a massive pay check.

mr leitrim

pac_man wrote: »

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Its funny how your username is pac_man, and you are touchy about me accusing Pacquiao. If I was accusing Mayweather would you be so touchy? You are letting your personal bias come into moderation, bias isn't moderation.

Ask yourself this, why has Pacquiao avoided this fight due to the random drug testing for the last 5 years. Fear of needles? Be serious.

The reality is that most elite level boxers are using something these days. Its no different to any other sport, baseball, cycling, etc. Tyson used a whizzer to pass urine testing, so its a moot point. No one wants to think their hero is juicing to win, but often that is the case.
Ronaldo was juiced up when he joined PSV Eindhoven as they thought his frame was too small, and that's why he has suffered so many knee injuries as a result.

Mayweather and Pacquiao are 38 and 36 respectively, do you think they could maintain their fitness and physique without the juice at this stage? If you do, then you are deluded.
And one can't put sense where there isn't any.

Talib Fiasco

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Mallagio

There's beers involved for me next week.... Need to somehow stay up - I imagine this could be a 5am start guys?

Talib Fiasco

Yeah be will around the five mark. I am starting placement in school next week and under normal circumstances I'll be working every waking hour at the weekend to make sure I have everything perfect for it but exceptions will have to be made next Sat/Sun :pac:

MN86

Long shot but here goes...just wondering will anywhere be showing the fight on May 2nd in the Sligo area......

SHOVELLER

Manny having to buy tickets for his extended family who normally get comps. Mayweather running the show.

Agree with some of the above. It is verifiable that Manny refused drug testing previously. There are no innocents at this level.

Admission prices in NY bars start at $20 all the way to $1000!

Talib Fiasco

Sure there was decent evidence that Floyd had tested positive not once but three times and that he covered it up....take that as you will too.

mr leitrim

pac_man wrote: »

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The Manny Pacquiao steroid scandal has reached another level as Freddie Roach himself thinks that "Pacman" may have taken some PED's from Alex Ariza.
In an interview with Radio Raheem and transcribed by Boxing News 24, Freddie Roach said that "One of the reasons I don't work with him [Ariza] anymore is he's a little shady. He used to give Manny a drink before workouts, and I asked him what was in the drink and he would never tell me. I told him I need to know what was in the drinks because you're giving it to my fighter."
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"And if something goes wrong, I'm going to get the blame. So in my opinion, he's a little shady. So he's in that champ [Brandon Rios] now and it doesn't surprise me that [Rios testing positive for a banned substance] happened."
Alex Ariza has been the conditioning coach for Pacquiao during his best years, and with this news, it opens up a lot of questions with regards to all the Manny Pacquiao victories in that era.
It should be noted that Freddie Roach has a feud with Ariza and these might be another chapter of their back-and-forth trash talking. Was he not aware that with these accusations, he is also placing his prized fighter Manny Pacquiao under suspicion? It even places himself under suspicion!
Boxing News 24 notes that:
"If Roach wasn't getting an answer from Ariza about what he was giving Pacquiao in those drinks, then Roach shouldn't have allowed him to give them to him. After all, it's his fighter and he was in charge of the situation. If you have someone that's not giving you answer about what's inside of a drink that's being given to one of your fighters, then you've got to let that person go. It's kind of surprising that Roach didn't pull the plug on Ariza as the strength trainer for Pacquiao if he had suspicions about the drinks that he was giving to him and not getting answers about the contents of those drinks."
It seems that the Manny Pacquiao steroid scandal won't end anytime soon and because of this Floyd Mayweather can use this to avoid having a fight with the Filipino boxer.

Knock Off Nigel

Should of let the 2 of them juice up for this fight make it an even playing field.

Talib Fiasco

Yeah but Ariza is working with Floyd now as well as Heredia being in his camp.

mr leitrim

Knock Off Nigel wrote: »

Should of let the 2 of them juice up for this fight make it an even playing field.

That's exactly the case.

Mister Vain

Mayweather seems to have matured lately. Even after the Maidana fight he was rather humble.

willmunny1990

No point discussing who or who not maybe on steroids or whatever. The likelihood is most athletes that are top of their game at their profession are on them, look at cycling. Also strong links that PED use is rife in top football and the same goes for plenty of other sports.

Halloween Jack

Mister Vain wrote: »

Mayweather seems to have matured lately. Even after the Maidana fight he was rather humble.

He is pushing 40!

Mister Vain

Halloween Jack wrote: »

He is pushing 40!

He is indeed. He probably got sick of throwing dollar bills everywhere. I must say though I have respect for him after the Maidana fight. Maidana fought dirty in that first bout but Mayweather was gracious afterwards.

Talib Fiasco

Mister Vain wrote: »

He is indeed. He probably got sick of throwing dollar bills everywhere. I must say though I have respect for him after the Maidana fight. Maidana fought dirty in that first bout but Mayweather was gracious afterwards.

He was gracious because he knew he was extremely lucky to come away with the win....plenty of other judges could have given Maidana the win and Chino was only one or two more rounds away from winning a decision on any judges card. He was throwing rancid abuse at Maidana prior to the fight, he even joked about the fact he didn't even know how to pronounce his name in the promo for it. Floyd is only more "humble" now because he's sick of the grind and he's lost the heart for boxing. refuse to believe Floyd has changed his ways at all

Mister Vain

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

He was gracious because he knew he was extremely lucky to come away with the win....plenty of other judges could have given Maidana the win and Chino was only one or two more rounds away from winning a decision on any judges card. He was throwing rancid abuse at Maidana prior to the fight, he even joked about the fact he didn't even know how to pronounce his name in the promo for it. Floyd is only more "humble" now because he's sick of the grind and he's lost the heart for boxing. refuse to believe Floyd has changed his ways at all

Maybe you're right, but Chino made the fight very difficult for him yet he kept his cool and out boxed him despite the dirty tactics. Any he hasn't done as much trash talking in the lead up to this fight as he has in the past.

xtal191

Halloween Jack

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

He was gracious because he knew he was extremely lucky to come away with the win....plenty of other judges could have given Maidana the win and Chino was only one or two more rounds away from winning a decision on any judges card. He was throwing rancid abuse at Maidana prior to the fight, he even joked about the fact he didn't even know how to pronounce his name in the promo for it. Floyd is only more "humble" now because he's sick of the grind and he's lost the heart for boxing. refuse to believe Floyd has changed his ways at all

In fairness he's pretty much always gracious after fights, I can remember his saying nice things about his opponents after any of the fights I've seen.

He can definitely fling the insults around before fights alright but the brash, trash talking persona has served him well in getting arses on seats hoping he'll get battered.

It's work for him at the end of the day, I doubt he has much animosity toward the likes of maidana or whatever.

I reckon you're on to something regarding the hunger being gone to some extent. The money for that six fight deal was probably too good to pass up, but probably 2-3 fights too many.

FTA69

mr leitrim wrote: »

. Mayweather will keep Pacquiao out of range the whole fight, shoulder rolling his southpaw.

Jump into a ring sometime and give that a bash. Let us know how you get on.

Kirby

Halloween Jack wrote: »

In fairness he's pretty much always gracious after fights, I can remember his saying nice things about his opponents after any of the fights I've seen.

He can definitely fling the insults around before fights alright but the brash, trash talking persona has served him well in getting arses on seats hoping he'll get battered.

It's work for him at the end of the day, I doubt he has much animosity toward the likes of maidana or whatever.

I reckon you're on to something regarding the hunger being gone to some extent. The money for that six fight deal was probably too good to pass up, but probably 2-3 fights too many.

It's easy to be gracious after the fight, when you have won. And Floyd always wins. But have a look at this post fight. Merchant calls him out on the sucker punch and Floyd loses his rag completely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjuaeKMeRf8