Pacquiao Should KO Mosley to Prove he is better than Mayweather

[Gandalf]

You write well for a new guy. By the way... I really liked your song "Africa" many years ago.



Having said that, I think your logic suffers a little on a few counts. First of all... IMO Pac has nothing, nyet, nada, to prove to Pretty Boy. On the contrary... the ball is firmly in Pretty Boy's court, except that he won't be doing any dribbling any time soon, except in the slammer. Maybe there he'll find a captive audience who will believe his claims to be the world's p4p, although he's done nothing to deserve it in the last few years. He beat a grossly undersized JMM (not everyone can jump several weight classes like Pac has done), and then beat an unexplicably shy and suddenly old-looking Shane Mosley. (Why he didn't capitalize on that huge right that rocked Pretty Boy early on, I'll never know).

Meanwhile, Pac has defied all odds by beating bigger and stronger men. Say what you will about Pac's opponents. But BEFORE the fights, you'd be hard pressed to find fans with conviction who would've predicted the ease with which Pac dispatched those opponents. It's not Pac's fault that Clottey shamefully decided to rob boxing fans of their money by going into a shell and not fighting that night. And it's not Pac's fault that Cotto came in with a TOTALLY wrong gameplan against him, going toe-to-toe and throwing 1 punch for every 5 of Pac's. It's easy to pick fights apart after they're done. It's called "Monday morning quarterbacking".

But back to your main point. Pac needs to do NOTHING to prove he's better than Mayweather. He already has. It's Pretty Boy who needs to do everything in his power to get that fight and shut Pac's fans up. But that's gonna be a bit difficult to do from his jail cell. So all we're left with are theories and conjectures.

How has Manny proved he was better than Mayweather? He hasn't at all. That's why almost everyone who boxes believes Floyd would beat him. Floyd is way more well rounded, and a adapts better during a fight. Don't get it twisted, Marquez looked poor, and Mosley old because Mayweather made them look that way. He picked Marquez apart, and feinted and peppered Mosley into compliance. You will see on May 7, that Mosley will put up a valiant effort against Pacquiao. I don't think he will win, but it will be a lot more competitive than Mayweather-Mosley.

Nobody can really be sure as to who is better between Pacquiao and Mayweather until they fight in the ring. It may be true that Floyd would beat Manny but what people would remember several years from now is what happened in their last negotiation, that Floyd was the reason that fight did not happen. If all that happened is the first negotiation, Manny would have gotten the blame.

Not true, people will remember that they were both at fault and the thing that actually stands out more is that one of them refused to do a drugs test. That has hurt Pac more than Floyd. How can you argue against someone looking for comprehensive drug coverage and the other fighter sitting back saying "stop hurting my pride, no fight". That looks far worse. The fight would likely have happened, but Manny couldn't deal with it in the first place. That's what I remember above all else right now.

Manny was the one looking for that fight and he shrugged his shoulder. Floyd was the top dog and to agree would have been the correct way to continue.