Mayweather reveals his plan: Avoid Pacquiao until retirement

There's more than one way to become number 1. The most commendable option would be to actually fight the best boxer in the word and defeat him, but Mayweather has another plan. If number 2 waits until number 1 retires, he automatically becomes number 1.

Recent statements made by Floyd Mayweather Jr. have further strengthened the speculations that he is avoiding Manny Pacquiao. In a video interview, Mayweather talked about the rematch clause in the Mosley fight.

Mayweather went so far as to say:

“If Shane Mosley want a rematch, I'll give him a rematch. After this, then if Pacquiao want it, he can get it too.”

No matter who wins this fight, there will be a rematch. This pushes the possibility of a fight with Pacquiao into next year.

Stephen Rafferty of Avoca, Arkansas has been an avid boxing fan for many years. He said:

“Mayweather knows if he gets in the ring with Pacquiao, he's on dangerous ground. He knows he's going to have to do the fight, but I think he's going to try to stall it for at least another two years. He needs Pacquiao, but this is Pacquiao's era. This is his time, and Mayweather doesn't want to get into the ring with him right now. Maybe he'll wait and then try to call Pacquiao out of retirement.”

Pacquiao has made it crystal clear that he has no intentions to jump through all of Mayweather's strategically placed hoops. He'll move on to fight somebody else once again. According to recent reports, Antonio Margarito is being taken into consideration as Pacquiao's next opponent.

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Rafferty went on to explain why he thinks Mayweather is avoiding Pacquiao.

“Here's what Mayweather's looking at with Pacquiao. He's thinking; This is the only guy who can throw so many punches...what am I going to do when Pacquiao gets all up in my face?” Rafferty said. “Mayweather's a defensive fighter. When somebody told him that Pacquiao just threw 1,200 punches against a guy, it makes him wonder if if he can really defend against that many punches.”

Boxing enthusiast, Dale Pippin, who works in Rogers said:

“There's no way that Manny will throw as many punches at Mayweather as he did against Clottey because Mayweather will keep moving out of range. He won't just stand there and let Pacquiao hit him.”

It would be interesting to find out if Mayweather could stand up to an offensive fighter as quick, busy and skilled as Pacquiao. Many people think that Pacquiao's non-stop, buzzsaw attack would overwhelm him.

Apparently Floyd agrees.

It looks like he would rather risk fighting Mosley twice to avoid the bigger risk of squaring off with Pacquiao just once.

Author: Lorne Scoggins

Soure: examiner.com