Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: Results and Punch Stats from Superfight

Floyd Mayweather took Manny Pacquiao to the scorecards Saturday in the sport's most anticipated encounter, and when that happens, there's no coming back. 

Billed as a fight between two of the greatest ever while some whispered it came five years too late, Saturday was a success or major disappointment depending on who gets asked.

The judges had final say, though, and it proved a unanimous 118-110, 116-112, 116-112 decision in favor of Money, as David Kull of ESPN captures:

To be blunt, Pacquiao did far too little and at a horrific percentage to stand a chance.

Going into the bout, it was no secret Pacquiao was going to need some sort of stoppage to stand a chance because Mayweather just doesn't lose on the scorecards. He has yet to lose a step, whereas Pacquiao is the one who entered Saturday with two recent losses to his name, including the knockout heard around the world.

The two started in unexpected fashion, with Mayweather meeting his adversary in the middle and exchanging blows. He opened up an early lead, suffered a marginal setback in the fourth round, recovered and dominated the rest of the way.

It was a tame fight, all things equal. Pacquiao was less aggressive than usual, while Mayweather was his typical efficient self. CompuBox provides the punch stats:

The punch totals are way down for Pacquiao. Look at his last two fights. Against Timothy Bradley he threw 563, per BoxRec.com. Against Chris Algieri he threw 669, per ESPN's Dan Rafael.

Now, there are two ways to look at Pacquiao's sudden decrease in punch count.

One, the counterpunch scared him. It's understandable—Money makes his, well, money by being the best counterpuncher in the sport, shoulder rolling his way out of danger and firing off high-percentage counters while dancing around the squared circle.

There's more, though—Pacquiao got caught being too aggressive in 2012 against Juan Manuel Marquez and bit the canvas. Such a loss, which capped a two-loss streak, lingers in the mind of any fighter, including Pacquiao.

So maybe Pacquiao's strategy bucked conventional thinking, maybe because it's what Mayweather would expect, too.

The other option, and the one Pacquiao wants everyone to believe, is he was hurt. Rafael captures this side of the equation:

There seems to be some credibility here, as a report by Greg Beacham of The Associated Press explains Pacquiao wanted to receive an injection, but Nevada officials wouldn't allow it because his corner didn't fill out paperwork correctly.

Promoter Bob Arum explains the impact on the fight:

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We felt that the work that was done on the shoulder during training would give him the opportunity to use the right hand. We were disappointed when in the third round the injury kicked up again, but this is always the case with sports. You get guys injured in training. He then deals with the injury, he thinks he's conquered it, and then he gets re-injured in the game. It happens in football. It happens in any sport.

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Some will say the injury talk is an excuse, but the truth is the globe may never know the full story or the impact.

What we do know is simple. Pacquiao, like the 47 before him, didn't have enough speed or power to score a stoppage, nor enough efficiency to win on the scorecards.

Regardless, there was little chance the fight would live up to expectations. Saturday's encounter may go down in history as the most anticipated matchup of all time, and as great as Mayweather and Pacquiao are, nobody can live up to such hype.

Mike Tyson and Oscar De La Hoya were two notables disappointed after the decision: 

Combine irrational hype with two fighters out of their prime. Sprinkle in Mayweather's defensive tactics, which haven't changed ever, and a sudden lack of aggressiveness from Pacquiao and disappointment is the only outcome.

For these reasons, it's hard to imagine the two ever step foot in the ring together again. It makes sense from a cash standpoint, but the two have nothing left to prove. Mayweather's the better fighter at this stage of their respective careers, and it's ill-advised for Pacquiao to put his legacy at stake again and risk falling to 0-2.

Mayweather is on to other things at this point, as he should be. He doesn't have anything left to prove and might hang up the gloves after one more fight. Pacquiao needs to hit the comeback trail again if he so chooses, but a rematch seems out of the question. 

The door is closed for these two. It wasn't a slam the wind caught, though, but a whimper. There's little reason to reopen it.