Some think when Mayweather and Pacquiao fought it was too late in their careers. Oscar De La Hoya gives his take.
De La Hoya shared the ring with both fighters so knows more than most on the subject of what would happen between a prime Floyd Mayweather vs prime Manny Pacquiao fight if it were to have happened.
Speaking to Club Shay Shay podcast Oscar De La Hoya said:
“Let’s just say it probably would have been a controversial decision, like a closer fight. I still do think that Floyd probably would have pulled it off. I really do think so. Pacquiao at the time when he was coming up when I fought him he was literally like a Pacman. He was just chomping at me like there was no tomorrow. He wouldn’t stop. He wouldn’t stop throwing punches. That Pacquiao probably gives Mayweather a better fight. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know if he wins but he gives him a better fight. Yeah.”
Very interesting.
You can also say that Mayweather was far removed from his prime in the fight with Pacquiao too.
Really, it was Mayweather’s early days of ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’ that were really his prime years.
When he was knocking out opponents quick before hand injuries blighted his career later on forcing him to pot shot more.
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