The Mayweather double standard.

[sanchez786]

That article is a complete farce. Mayweather DUCKS, Pacman fights the BEST in his division, please and simple. Shame on Mayweather for picking on a completely undersized opponent as JMM. If TRUE boxing fans were allowed to chose Mayweathers opponent it would either be Cotto/Mosley or Williams.

[blegit]

That article is a complete farce. Mayweather DUCKS, Pacman fights the BEST in his division, please and simple. Shame on Mayweather for picking on a completely undersized opponent as JMM. If TRUE boxing fans were allowed to chose Mayweathers opponent it would either be Cotto/Mosley or Williams.

Well, you can't say Pac fights the best in the division. Be all the way fair. At 135, he cherrypicked David Diaz. David Diaz So did he duck Casamayor or Campbell? These were the true tests at 135 and both were screaming for Pac. At 147, he picked DLH. Well, that is a division with Williams, Margarito, Cotto, Mosley, PBF, etc. And lets not forget that DLH had not been able to make it to 147 in many years so he wasn't even a 147 pounder. So lets not say Pac fights the best of the division he is in when in fact he doesn't. And how is JMM too small but Pac isn't? People lets not forget that PBF has always been the smaller fighter since he left 135. He walks around at 148 Pac walks around at 143. Finally PBF is the bigger fighter and now its a crime. I am not big on PBF as a person but I know what I see in talent and people hold him to a higher standard because they can't stand how good he is with a mouth like that. Every fighter cherrypicks by the way. Its still a business.

[Taeth]

That article is a complete farce. Mayweather DUCKS, Pacman fights the BEST in his division, please and simple. Shame on Mayweather for picking on a completely undersized opponent as JMM. If TRUE boxing fans were allowed to chose Mayweathers opponent it would either be Cotto/Mosley or Williams.

Well, you can't say Pac fights the best in the division. Be all the way fair. At 135, he cherrypicked David Diaz. David Diaz So did he duck Casamayor or Campbell? These were the true tests at 135 and both were screaming for Pac. At 147, he picked DLH. Well, that is a division with Williams, Margarito, Cotto, Mosley, PBF, etc. And lets not forget that DLH had not been able to make it to 147 in many years so he wasn't even a 147 pounder. So lets not say Pac fights the best of the division he is in when in fact he doesn't. And how is JMM too small but Pac isn't? People lets not forget that PBF has always been the smaller fighter since he left 135. He walks around at 148 Pac walks around at 143. Finally PBF is the bigger fighter and now its a crime. I am not big on PBF as a person but I know what I see in talent and people hold him to a higher standard because they can't stand how good he is with a mouth like that. Every fighter cherrypicks by the way. Its still a business.

Pacman doesn't walk around at 143 if he is coming into the ring at 148. I guarantee he walks around at roughly the same weight as Mayweather does which is 160. The thing I don't get is how come size is never brought into the equation when Pacquiao fights MArquez, I mean he weighed 3 pounds more in their last fight, I can't see MAyweather having anymore of a weight advantage over Marquez. Also I don't think Marquez will have that much difficulty putting on a little bit of weight, JCC did it fine, Duran did it fine. I think he will retain 95% of his speed, and dramatically increase his strength and power.

[blegit]

That article is a complete farce. Mayweather DUCKS, Pacman fights the BEST in his division, please and simple. Shame on Mayweather for picking on a completely undersized opponent as JMM. If TRUE boxing fans were allowed to chose Mayweathers opponent it would either be Cotto/Mosley or Williams.

Well, you can't say Pac fights the best in the division. Be all the way fair. At 135, he cherrypicked David Diaz. David Diaz So did he duck Casamayor or Campbell? These were the true tests at 135 and both were screaming for Pac. At 147, he picked DLH. Well, that is a division with Williams, Margarito, Cotto, Mosley, PBF, etc. And lets not forget that DLH had not been able to make it to 147 in many years so he wasn't even a 147 pounder. So lets not say Pac fights the best of the division he is in when in fact he doesn't. And how is JMM too small but Pac isn't? People lets not forget that PBF has always been the smaller fighter since he left 135. He walks around at 148 Pac walks around at 143. Finally PBF is the bigger fighter and now its a crime. I am not big on PBF as a person but I know what I see in talent and people hold him to a higher standard because they can't stand how good he is with a mouth like that. Every fighter cherrypicks by the way. Its still a business.

Pacman doesn't walk around at 143 if he is coming into the ring at 148. I guarantee he walks around at roughly the same weight as Mayweather does which is 160. The thing I don't get is how come size is never brought into the equation when Pacquiao fights MArquez, I mean he weighed 3 pounds more in their last fight, I can't see MAyweather having anymore of a weight advantage over Marquez. Also I don't think Marquez will have that much difficulty putting on a little bit of weight, JCC did it fine, Duran did it fine. I think he will retain 95% of his speed, and dramatically increase his strength and power.

You are correct. Freddie Roach was quoted as saying 143 is the comfortable walk around weight for Pac. But coming into his last two fights he weighed more than that. Maybe Pac focused on bulk. I just gave him the benefit of the doubt. And PBF does not walk around at 160. He is not tall enough to look skinny weighing 160. I know its tough to get the truth on fighter's natural weight but my guess is he still has a few pounds on Pac but people act like it is a great difference. Their excuse that JMM is too small is just plain hypocrisy and another double standard. PBF/JMM size difference is much smaller than PBF/Williams, PBF/Margarito, PBF/Mosley size difference! Where is their criticism? Remember when Cotto fought Corley at 140 and he weighed 17 pounds more than him? There wasn't a peep of Cotto criticism.