Does Manny Pacquiao Stand A Chance?

7. Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

List off boxers both Mayweather and Pacquiao have in common and you get better results in favor of the Filipino star. Anything Mayweather could do Pacquiao did better.

Ricky Hatton vs Floyd Mayweather in 2007, Mayweather gets the TKO victory in the tenth round, a referee stoppage. Pac-Man knocked out Hatton out cold in the second round of their 2009 match. Anything Mayweather can do Pacquiao did better.

Miguel Cotto vs Mayweather in 2012 went the distance, a fight Money Mayweather won unanimously based on the judges. Pacquiao vs Cotto – Cotto ended up with a bloodied, battered, swollen and bruised face as a result of a 12th round TKO fight in 2009.

In 2010 Mayweather fought Shane Mosley, a fight in which Mayweather’s knees were buckled in the second round. To Mayweather’s credit he did win the fight unanimously. As for Pacquiao’s bout vs Mosley in 2011, Pac-Man was the first fighter ever to knock down Mosley in his entire career. Knocking him down in the third round, later to win the bout in a unanimous decision.

How about the Oscar de la Hoya vs Mayweather fight? A fight many fans saw as a controversial victory for Mayweather. Judges scoring a split decision in favor for Mayweather.

Not since 1999, has Mayweather had a fight end in a knockout.

The KO Mayweather had vs Victor Ortiz in 2011 we all know was cheap shot, yet legal, but dirty. Sure Ortiz tried a headbutt then Mayweather went eye for an eye, knocking Ortiz out without him looking – not a true champions way.

More on knockout power later.

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