About Mayweather vs Pacquiao
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We are fickle people, us boxing heads, and now, having worshipped at the altar of Manny Pacquiao for most of the year, we find ourselves in a place that few anticipated. I certainly did not. I went into the Mayweather/Marquez fight confident that Floyd would win and that he would do it convincingly. I did not, however, for a moment expect that he would do it so convincingly that in the aftermath we would have reason to doubt whether we were even interested in a Mayweather/Pacquiao superfight at all.
But that is where we are. Whether you buy it or not, there\'s at least an argument to be made on that score, and it\'s being made all over the internet. Pacquiao fought Marquez twice and both times they were essentially ties. In the first fight Pac scored three touchdowns in the first two minutes of the game and Marquez came back to tie the game with a series of field goals over the next 58. In the second fight, they matched each other touchdown for touchdown the entire game and according to the judges Pacquiao kicked a field goal with time running out. All we can conclude from this is that the two teams are dead even.
This past Saturday night, Floyd beat up on Marquez like the Niners beat the Chargers that one Super Bowl where Steve Young threw about nineteen touchdown passes to Jerry Rice and assorted members of Jerry Rice\'s family. He beat Marquez like the Steelers playing a Div 1-A team.
And so, by the commutative property, this equation is now on the table: Mayweather > Marquez (by like infinity), Marquez = Pacquiao (give or take), therefore Mayweather > Pacquiao (by like infinity).
Even taking into account the weight issue, I still think it\'s reasonable that people are drawing such a conclusion. The only concrete way we have to assess fighters who haven\'t fought each other is to look at how they\'ve done against similar opponents.
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