Comments Thread For: Malignaggi: Mayweather-Pacquiao Backlash Came From Casuals That Don't Really Understand Boxing

[nubianpiye]

Manny was still an elite fighter he's just beaten Keith here was just never good enough to best Floyd at any stage in his career

[Goldie]

Both fighters should be proud of the money that they made. They should also be proud of the event they could put together. The fight itself was absolute garbage by both of them. It was the least amount of punches landed by either fighter in a 12 round fight. It was also a massive hugfest. Paulie and the Floyd hardcores can try to spin that however they want. The weirdos that think Manny won can also try to spin it however they want.

Bottom line is that they're all still arguing over who is the king of a trash heap. Had the fight happened years earlier like almost everyone agrees that it should then maybe it would have been a different story.

Notice how the people who say the fight was boring or garbage, were all rooting for pacquiao lol.

You just can�t help ****** people in their feelings. For years people who picked Floyd to win told the world how the fight was going to turn out. We told you that it was likely going to be the usual Floyd UD where he would give pacquiao a boxing lesson and make it look like a sparring match. That�s exactly what it was and that�s how it was going to always look.

Pacquiao off the juice wasn�t going to do any better in 2009-10 either. That�s why he didn�t want to take the drug tests.

[pasawayako]

I think if floyd didn't use IV for masking PEDS he don't stand a chance against an injured pac.

[Pigeons]

I don't care about what this f**ggot has to say.

[Ca$ual Fan]

Well he did say Pacquiao would destroy McGregor in one round.

Dude hates Mcgregor worse that Pacquiao because of what he did. Pacquiao didn�t do sh.it to him and, in fact, ignored him and his comments.

Paulie may be a good analyst but has �zero?credibility when it comes to Pacquiao and Mcgregor because his bias will always show up against them

[bojangles1987]

Notice how the people who say the fight was boring or garbage, were all rooting for pacquiao lol.

You just can�t help ****** people in their feelings. For years people who picked Floyd to win told the world how the fight was going to turn out. We told you that it was likely going to be the usual Floyd UD where he would give pacquiao a boxing lesson and make it look like a sparring match. That�s exactly what it was and that�s how it was going to always look.

Pacquiao off the juice wasn�t going to do any better in 2009-10 either. That�s why he didn�t want to take the drug tests.

I can't speak for you personally, but Mayweather fans loved to talk about how Pac had made Floyd mad and we were going to see a punishing Mayweather, how he was going to hurt Pacquiao in this fight.

I promise you many of the people saying "of course Floyd was always going to win this way" were also saying how Mayweather was going to stop Pac and put a beating on him.

They both looked like past-prime fighters content to pick up a check, and people were understandably disappointed by that after so many years. It felt like both fighters conned us by making us wait so many years for a fight like that. Neither of them put themselves out there in any way.

Of course the onus for that fell on Pac more than Floyd since Floyd was the guy who was going to win the way it went down, but Floyd from the Mosley or Cotto fight would have put it on Pac for fighting that way, let alone Pretty Boy Floyd. Neither guy gave a **** outside of the payday and the fight ******.

[Goldie]

I can't speak for you personally, but Mayweather fans loved to talk about how Pac had made Floyd mad and we were going to see a punishing Mayweather, how he was going to hurt Pacquiao in this fight.

I promise you many of the people saying "of course Floyd was always going to win this way" were also saying how Mayweather was going to stop Pac and put a beating on him.

They both looked like past-prime fighters content to pick up a check, and people were understandably disappointed by that after so many years. It felt like both fighters conned us by making us wait so many years for a fight like that. Neither of them put themselves out there in any way.

Of course the onus for that fell on Pac more than Floyd since Floyd was the guy who was going to win the way it went down, but Floyd from the Mosley or Cotto fight would have put it on Pac for fighting that way, let alone Pretty Boy Floyd. Neither guy gave a **** outside of the payday and the fight ******.

Fight didn’t suck, you just wanted pacquiao to win or at least make it a close fight. Instead he got schooled and was made to look like a sparring partner. I actually give pacquiao more credit than you because he wasn’t as easy for Floyd to hit as I initially thought. It was only a boring fight if you bought into the hype that pacquiao is in Floyd’s class though.

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Paulie is approaching Ward levels of unlikable national embarrassment

[bmag]

You can't "dominate" a fight with defense. Lol. You just can't.
To use the logic of Floyd's "defenders" , the best fight ever would be floyd and someone just as good just running around for twelve round avoiding being hit.
Boxing is a blood sport. Twenty years from now nobody will be watching Floyd fights on rerun. Just fighters.
Paulie hates Manny as well

[bojangles1987]

Fight didn’t suck, you just wanted pacquiao to win or at least make it a close fight. Instead he got schooled and was made to look like a sparring partner. I actually give pacquiao more credit than you because he wasn’t as easy for Floyd to hit as I initially thought. It was only a boring fight if you bought into the hype that pacquiao is in Floyd’s class though.

The fight went exactly how I said it would. I had no personal stake in it, I was saying all of this going in. I didn't even watch it live. By the time the fight happened I had been ripping Pacquiao left and right for his career choices. If Mayweather had dominated the fight and looked impressive like he did against Mosley or Alvarez, I wouldn't have been upset. I would have commended him for it.

The backlash is not just mad Pacquiao fans, most people thought the fight ****** because it did. Neither guy looked good. They looked like two past it fighters who were content to have a sparring session that made them rich. That's exactly what the fight was.