Quote Originally Posted by Taeth View Post
He called out Pacquiao before the Marquez fight, honestly I think he felt he would have won before and would have foughten Pacquiao had he succumbed to Mayweather's demands. After facing Ortiz or during the training camp I think Floyd Mayweather vastly improved his ability to fight southpaws, he really improved his distance, footwork, and angles compared to the judah or any of his other fights against southpaws, he fully transfered his effectiveness vs orthodox opponents to facing southpaws. I truly believe Manny is more dangerous now than ever, but that all of his advancements technically and as a fighter in general won't matter against Floyd. It will be a really interesting fight and the fight that Floyd would have the highest chance to lose by far, but that's still pretty slim odds for Pacquiao IMO. And I really love everything he does in the ring. His balance, footwork, and defense have improved so much, but he still takes terrible lines coming in, always shooting up the middle even when he gets the outside angle.
I dont think FLoyd did improve his skills in fighting southpaws when he fought Ortiz. Ortiz was able to pin him several times and was able to give Floyd bruises like he never had before in a fight. And considering Ortiz is not fast or quick enough and was still able to land good punches on Floyd will make you conclude that Floyd truly has problems dodging a southpaw punch. Yes, Floyd was equally hitting Ortiz with clean shots, but Floyd showing signs of defensive slack is very serious because he founded his boxing career as a defensive wiz. If Ortiz was able to pin him that much, what about VS a punching machine such as Pac?

Floyd knows nows the time to fight Pac because he knows pac is slowing down with his age. The Marquez fight gives him hope that he truly can beat the guy with the right game plan, pac wasnt able to show his dominating style vs JMM and that must just be what Floyd wants to see.

Also, Floyd thinks that aside from Pac, other potential fight will not be as easy as they seems to be. He knows he's getting older and slower too (observe Ortiz). So from here on, each fight aside from pac can be considered High-risk, low reward fights -- something that he cant afford to take.

As for Pac, he considering the same thing actually. If the fight has to happen, it should happen next year.

So basically both guys are thinking about the final chapter on their careers. And they think that to put each others names on that chapter will the best ending there is. History is written by the victors, who will be writing Floyd-pac history then? Us FANS of course.