{"id":40338,"date":"2015-04-24T22:18:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T02:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40338"},"modified":"2020-07-15T22:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T02:18:33","slug":"anyone-else-think-mayweather-wins-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40338","title":{"rendered":"Anyone else think Mayweather wins, easily?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-40339 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pacmay21-e1429653083489.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pacmay21-e1429653083489.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pacmay21-e1429653083489-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m the biggest follower of boxing, but anyone who watches any sort of sport is cognitively aware of the existence of guys like Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and that they\u2019re going to be having their long (long) overdue boxing match very soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The general consensus is pretty consistent all across the board: it\u2019s five years too late, and most people don\u2019t care\u00a0<em>nearly <\/em>as much as they would have, like five years ago, but whatever it\u2019s finally going to go down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">If I were the type to put money on sport (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/BOS\/BOS200810160.shtml\">anymore<\/a>), I wouldn\u2019t hesitate to bet on Mayweather.\u00a0 Not for a second.\u00a0 Ask me on the street who I think is going to win, and I\u2019m saying Mayweather before the question is even finished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Don\u2019t get me wrong, I hope I\u2019m proven wrong, and I hope that Pacquiao knocks Mayweather out in 72 seconds.\u00a0 That would be absolutely delightful to see.\u00a0 I think Mayweather is an obnoxious cocky arrogant pompous asshole that would greatly benefit from being dropped a peg or fifty, but the fact of the matter is that I think Mayweather is going to be better prepared for the fight, and is going to knock out Pacquiao, in like the fourth round.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Manny Pacquiao is basically Jesus of the Philippines, and not undeserved, by any stretch of the imagination.\u00a0 He\u2019s easily one of the all-time greatest boxers, he\u2019s often perceived as a pretty good guy, and he\u2019s basically a country politician, being in the Filipino House of Representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">That\u2019s just it though, Manny Pacquiao is simply stretched too thin on a regular basis, to possibly be ready for a worldly-anticipated boxing event.\u00a0 Sure, it\u2019s not like he\u2019s not training at all, but there are still political obligations, and whatever PR or social duties that he has, and from what I understand, Pacquiao is also involved in trying to play like semi-pro basketball in the Philippines too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Meanwhile, Floyd Mayweather has been training for this fight since the thought of \u201cI want to fight Manny Pacquiao\u201d has entered his pea-sized brain.\u00a0 He basically does nothing outside of boxing and boxing training, other than hang out with Justin Bieber, and put ludicrous amounts of money on sports betting, but that just means he\u2019s had literally nothing to do over the span of the last five years but train for a fight against Manny Pacquiao.\u00a0 Lest us we forget he also spent some time in the clink, where he probably did nothing but train against inmates and prisoners all wanting to be friend to a numbskull with criminal tendencies and gobs of money that he doesn\u2019t know what to do with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Maybe five years ago, Mayweather vs. Pacquiao would have been insanely competitive, and a literal coin toss to whom might actually win.\u00a0 But in this current day and age?\u00a0 Mayweather is going to win; if not by some absurdly fast knockout, then the usual 12-round decision that plagues modern professional boxing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I really hope I\u2019m wrong, I doubt that I\u2019ll manage to see the fight happen live, but as much as I hate to say it, this fight is pretty much a foregone conclusion that it\u2019s Mayweather, all the way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m the biggest follower of boxing, but anyone who watches any sort of sport is cognitively aware of the existence of guys like Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and that they\u2019re going to be having their long (long) overdue boxing match very soon. The general consensus is pretty consistent all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anyone else think Mayweather wins, easily?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,15,58],"class_list":["post-40338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40340,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40338\/revisions\/40340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}