Boxing Thread

[Tony Baloney]

Not for the first time I am glad I didn't pay for it.

[laoislad]

Watched it on a Spanish stream, never been as bored.

[BennyHarp]

Pacquiao thought he won the fight?? 

[Captain Obvious]

Pacquiao thought he won the fight?? 

Not sure how he thought that? Mayweather one more fight in September and then will retire.

[Milltown Row2]

Pacman was rubbish, so much hype about him but never looked like getting inside Mayweather at all.... Counter punches from Floyd was always going to keep him in front...

[gallsman]

I had 117-113. The counter right hands in the first two rounds had Pacquiao wary all night and out of sorts. He never had a hope the way he fought it. Seemed to gas towards the end too. Think the 118-110 card was a bit harsh.

[heganboy]

obviously scoring in boxing is subjective, I had floyd by 6, however the guardian's fight guy Kevin Mitchell thought manny by a point

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/may/03/floyd-mayweather-beats-manny-pacquiao-on-points-to-remain-unbeaten

anyone else think Manny had it?

[Johnnybegood]

obviously scoring in boxing is subjective, I had floyd by 6, however the guardian's fight guy Kevin Mitchell thought manny by a point

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/may/03/floyd-mayweather-beats-manny-pacquiao-on-points-to-remain-unbeaten

anyone else think Manny had it?

whoever wrote that article either didn't see the fight or knows nothing about boxing. Mayweather won at least 8 rounds by a pretty wide margin.

[Syferus]

It wasn't eight clear rounds' worth of points in Mayweather's favour. Too many close rounds to say that. A truer margin was the four rounds that two of the judges had. Maybe five at a push. Far closer in many of the rounds than the Sky commentators made out - they have a bad tendency of choosing the winner after the first round and bias their commentary towards that fighter for the rest of the fight.

In the end the slow start left Pac with a mountain of work that he was unlikely to overcome. Mayweather is the greatest fighter of his generation. Some of his movement and blocking early in the fight was just unreal. As a person he is impossible to like but his talent is transcendent.

I thought it was a fascinating fight.

I'd imagine there's little chance of Mayweather not trying to break Marciano's 49-0 record, Captain Obvious. Might pretend retire first but the chance eclipse such a legendary record would be impossible for Mayweather's considerable ego to pass on.

[gallsman]

He said won 8 rounds clearly, which would be a four point difference, not that he should have won by 8 points.

[Syferus]

He said won 8 rounds clearly, which would be a four point difference, not that he should have won by 8 points.

Corrected.

[gallsman]

He said won 8 rounds clearly, which would be a four point difference, not that he should have won by 8 points.

Corrected.

I had four points in it too, with two drawn rounds, which if I'd been forced to give to someone would have gone to Floyd.

Whether it was the injury that he's now talking about or not, there was just no "buzz" from Manny last night. He was utterly flummoxed.

[Atticus_Finch]

Yesterday was like all Ireland final day with tickets for the fight coming out of the woodwork here and there and more often than not going for less than face value. We were glad to have got closed circuit tickets for the MGM and were not even trying to get tickets but were offered them on a number of occasions yesterday.  Most offers were still looking ridiculous money but got chatting to one guy in the lift who was part of mayweather's promotion team a couple of hours before the fight. He offered me a pair of tickets which had a face value of $7000 for $2600 (probably about £1800 after adding on fees). Still crazy dough but I thought to myself "once in a lifetime" and said deal.

Went to the cash machine to try withdraw the money but got a "transaction declined" as did my mate. Went to the casino cashier and asked them to give me a cash advance on the card which had a ridiculous fee but they couldnt do it for us without having a passport there and then. Your promotions guy got frustrated with the dilly dallying, he had a dwindling window of time to get rid of the tickets, went off and that was that.

At the time I was gutted about missing out on the tickets but after just waking up this morning I'm glad I didn't shell out for them and think that it wasn't meant to be.  While I knew that it was impossible for the fight to live up to the hype and expected the outcome I was still left feeling a bit underwhelmed after the final bell.  I thought Pacquiao would have emptied the tank during the final rounds. Both fighters could have done another 5 rounds without too much difficulty I reckon and that is what would have annoyed me had I been at the fight, I wouldn't have got enough bang for my buck.  Having said that it is difficult not to admire the genius of floyd Mayweather, in and out of the ring he is a shrewd operator.

Even at the closed circuit the atmosphere was great and it was a great setup.

Been a great trip and glad I made it.  Got chatting to a number of fighters while being out here.  Carl froch effectively said he was going to hang up the gloves.  His big pay day against Chavez Jnr went up in smoke a couple of weeks back following Chavez's shock defeat by Fonfara. He more or less said he was happy with his career and had achieved everything he set out to.  I think any possible fights out there for him e.g. de Gale are too much risk too little reward for him.

Away off to make the most of the last day before returning to Belfast having acquired a few pounds in the belly department and shed a load of weight in the wallet department (although at least not paying 900 for a ticket saved it from disappearing completely) ...

[beer baron]

Mayweather was an easy winner for me,made Pacquiao look like an idiot plenty of times in the fight and evaded so many punches it was crazy,he's very hard to like but he is a hell of a fighter,his defence in particular is flawless.

[beer baron]

Yesterday was like all Ireland final day with tickets for the fight coming out of the woodwork here and there and more often than not going for less than face value. We were glad to have got closed circuit tickets for the MGM and were not even trying to get tickets but were offered them on a number of occasions yesterday.  Most offers were still looking ridiculous money but got chatting to one guy in the lift who was part of mayweather's promotion team a couple of hours before the fight. He offered me a pair of tickets which had a face value of $7000 for $2600 (probably about £1800 after adding on fees). Still crazy dough but I thought to myself "once in a lifetime" and said deal.

Went to the cash machine to try withdraw the money but got a "transaction declined" as did my mate. Went to the casino cashier and asked them to give me a cash advance on the card which had a ridiculous fee but they couldnt do it for us without having a passport there and then. Your promotions guy got frustrated with the dilly dallying, he had a dwindling window of time to get rid of the tickets, went off and that was that.

At the time I was gutted about missing out on the tickets but after just waking up this morning I'm glad I didn't shell out for them and think that it wasn't meant to be.  While I knew that it was impossible for the fight to live up to the hype and expected the outcome I was still left feeling a bit underwhelmed after the final bell.  I thought Pacquiao would have emptied the tank during the final rounds. Both fighters could have done another 5 rounds without too much difficulty I reckon and that is what would have annoyed me had I been at the fight, I wouldn't have got enough bang for my buck.  Having said that it is difficult not to admire the genius of floyd Mayweather, in and out of the ring he is a shrewd operator.

Even at the closed circuit the atmosphere was great and it was a great setup.

Been a great trip and glad I made it.  Got chatting to a number of fighters while being out here.  Carl froch effectively said he was going to hang up the gloves.  His big pay day against Chavez Jnr went up in smoke a couple of weeks back following Chavez's shock defeat by Fonfara. He more or less said he was happy with his career and had achieved everything he set out to.  I think any possible fights out there for him e.g. de Gale are too much risk too little reward for him.

Away off to make the most of the last day before returning to Belfast having acquired a few pounds in the belly department and shed a load of weight in the wallet department (although at least not paying 900 for a ticket saved it from disappearing completely) ...

Great read,sounded like a trip of a lifetime,fairplay.