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Op-Ed: Floyd Mayweather scared of Pacquiao a joke, he’ll fight and win

Mayweather: Fear or not to fear

Is 50 Cent right? He’s scared to death? So is he trembling then? And afraid of what? Afraid that he’d get hurt? Afraid that he might lose his undefeated record?

Let’s start here: Mayweather’s not dumb. If you and I know that if he retires with an unblemished fight record of, say, 50-0, the record Rocky Marciano retired with, it’s not an unblemished record if he ducks Manny Pacquiao. You know that, I know that, Manny Pacquiao knows that, every true boxing fan on the planet would know that.

You don’t think Floyd Mayweather Jr. would know that?

Who do you think is really Mayor League Baseball’s home run king? Barry Bonds and his 762 home runs? Or Hank Aaron and his 755? It’s Aaron, right? Everyone knows cheating doesn’t prosper and Aaron played clean of steroids, Bonds did not. In sport, ducking is like cheating.

There would be nothing in it for Mayweather, 37, to duck Pacquiao, 36. He would simply make himself look foolish and I’ll lay odds he’s bending over backwards to try and make this fight so he can avoid the backlash that would forever follow him, that would forever be a footnote when boxing fans and media looked back at his career.

Mayweather and Pacquiao: powerful punchers

Why would he be afraid then? I mean he certainly isn’t afraid of being hurt, let’s get out of the way. He’s fought 47 times against highly trained, strong and fearless men – they’d have to be to step in a ring with Floyd – and he beat ’em all. He took their punches, doled out more hits and beat every one of them. The overwhelming majority he beat handily. Not even close. Twenty-six knockouts, 47 wins. Not one loss. Afraid of getting hurt?

Nonsense.

And why would Floyd Mayweather specifically be afraid of Manny Pacquiao? When each has fought the same boxer they’ve won except for Juan Manuel Marquez. Marquez beat Pacquiao once and drew with him once, while losing two close fights. In his only meeting with Marquez, Mayweather beat him handily, landing 59 percent of 490 punches, compared to Marquez, who landed only 12 percent of 583 punches.

Pacquiao has awards and 8 division championships and will be remembered as one of the great pound for pound fighters in boxing. But when it comes to punch power there’s not a lot separating the two, which Shane Mosley and Oscar De La Hoya, who fought both Mayweather and Pacquiao, have said.

Mayweather has the highest plus/minus record in boxing, meaning number of punches thrown and landed, subtracted from the amount thrown and landed on him. He’s a +24. So if anyone has to fear the others punches, fear getting hurt, fear the other boxer, it’s Pacquiao. But neither have fear. Each are long past that.

There may be doubt as to who will win, it’s boxing, nothing is for certain. “I lean towards Mayweather because he’s maybe a little sharper,” Mosley recently said. “But anything is possible in a boxing match.”

Mosley is only almost right because there is one thing that is not possible in a boxing match: Floyd Mayweather being afraid.

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