Quote Originally Posted by christianshreve View Post
For the rest of his life Floyd will have to deal with having caught the same fear factor virus that Roy Jones dealt with against Dariusz Michalczewski--he found a guy who spooked him and said no. Manny scared him into being unavailable. Whether or not we believe Floyd would have neutralized the combination machine that has been the pacman, Floyd was too scared to find out. Floyd could have been given the edge in every category, but he didn't think he could win, and the boxing fans could just suffer.
At his highest level, the most gifted froze like a 2nd grader at the edge of the local pool high dive. "No thanks, mister, I'm coming back down the ladder. Not because I'm scared of the dive, no sir. It's just that I've pooped my pants."
Mayweather's fear of Manny is phobic, and that means it is irrational as an elephant being scared of a mouse. Phobia's aren't rational, and we should let go of the fight and enjoy Pretty Boy Floyd's remaining excellence, even if he didn't overcome all of his personal demons. Hell, does anyone?
Another winner. You speak of style making fights and talk about movement in relationship to a one dimensional attack in this dead horse fight but I think you must have pasted that from some yahoo answers page.

Marquez cant fight off the back foot and he has so far countered him to shit in three controversial fights landing right hands almost at will and he's slow compared to Mayweather with less options with that hand.

Add to that Floyds ability to fight and land meaningful punches while in reverse and Manny is in trouble. That is at a time when the fight made sense/cents. Its pretty much irrelevant now and as beanflicker says perhaps one of the biggest blunders in history.