I just never saw Pac beating Floyd. For sure he had a great puncher's chance, but the trouble JMM gave him with speed and accurate counter punching always told me that Mayweather would have nullified him and landed the clean punches.

The rule of boxing that gets neglected the most on these forums is that STYLES MAKE FIGHTS. It never ceased to amaze me the logic that people would come up with for thinking that Pac was going to kill Mayweather.

"Well Pac did better against DLH and Hatton than Mayweather did so obviously he's the better fighter."

Pac was, for my money, the greatest "David" (David vs Goliath) in the history of boxing in that he developed a great style to smash much bigger (but much slower) guys. If you were a bigger guy, Pac knew how to blitz you with blistering combos and slip to the side so you couldn't hit him. And that deserves big respect because he smashed some serious opposition. Pac was a BAD, BAD motherfucker.

Styles make fights. How Pac did against Cotto, Hatton, Margarito, ect ect is IRRELEVANT when you're talking about a Floyd fight. Throw it out the fucking window. Manny's toughest fights were against guys with similar speed who stood up to him and could move and counter. JMM gave him absolute fits with his boxing, and Floyd is another level above JMM in terms of speed, skill and counter punching, which is demonstrated in their fight (dummies will write off that fight because Floyd was the bigger guy, but Floyd didn't win that fight fighting a "big man's" fight, he won it with speed and skill).

Floyd haters can hold on to that fantasy that Pac would have knocked Floyd out and schooled him, yadda yadda. Good for you, believe that. In reality, Pac would have gotten outfoxed because Floyd is not there to be hit, he's not there to be shoe-shined and he's too fast for Manny to potshot.