I felt that that was one of Floyd’s easiest fights,” stated world-class trainer Jeff Mayweather, who shared his thoughts on the Floyd Mayweather’s dominant victory over Manny Pacquiao. Excerpts.
Were there any surprises at all during the course of the fight for you?
To be honest, the one thing that I thought Pacquiao would do is let his hands go. I mean, Floyd took every single thing he should try to do on his keys to victory, he took it away. Manny didn’t throw no punches. Manny was too worried about being countered.
Fighters fight with and through injuries all the time, and I’m not denying he was legitimately injured, but when you see that coming up as a reason for his low output, what are your thoughts on that?
You just hit the nail on the head. All fighters fight with injuries; it’s all the time. It’s no big deal. Fighters just don’t complain about it because it’s part of the game. There was plenty times I fought with my hands messed up, my shoulders messed up; everything. I mean, that’s part of the game. If you getting $80 million, you show your ass up.
Big Floyd was really animated during the one minute break and thought maybe the judges were being persuaded by the crowd noise and things like that. As the fight was moving along, what was your feel to the fight?
I felt that Floyd was playing with him. I felt that that was one of Floyd’s easiest fights. My thing is this, I felt Floyd Sr. was looking for a statement, and to be honest, Floyd Jr. kept his composure and he did exactly what he should’ve done. He didn’t take no unnecessary risk and he won the fight cleanly. People got upset because it was the Fight of the Century and the thing is, it’s supposed to be two great fighters that show up and put on their best performance.
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