Pacquiao Vs Mayweather: Tired of Hearing Pacquiao Will Win? Me Too

I've read endless blogs, message boards, etc. laced with people talking about this fight. The world has been waiting for this since Pacquiao's win over the Golden Boy and I couldn't be happier to see all this hype and controversy even before official promotions have started. 

Having said that, what I've read supporting the Pacman has grown from a healthy disagreement to a staunch annoyance.

It isn't that I'm not a Pacquiao fan, I'm a huge Pacquiao fan. Why not be? He's a remarkable fighter and he is a whole lot of fun to watch. But let's not make that the main reason why we support him in this fight.

The more I read from the good people who favor Pacquiao (which is all too repetitive) the more I get the sense that they are not knowledgeable sport fans that can watch an event with an analytical eye, but people who watch boxing just to watch someone else get beaten up...which is absolutely fine, just don't argue your position about it and post it in the middle of debates. 

Let me address these two topics first because they're the most frequent, and probably the most idiotic.

Manny did to Hatton in 2 what it took Floyd to do in 10

Styles makes fights! Manny is a slugger fighting a brawler! Hatton drops his hands and walks toward you, what did you think was going to happen in that fight?! 

At no point in Mayweather/Hatton was the Hitman anywhere near in control of that fight, and while Mayweather beat on him for nine rounds then KO'd him, the fight was just as dominating. 

Pacquiao made the Golden Boy look amateur, when Mayweather squeezed by with a decision.

Mayweather moved up two weight classes to Oscar's NATURAL (and most effective) weight of 154 lbs. A fight he outweighed Mayweather by four pounds, and to those that think Floyd barely won, look at the numbers.

Oscar threw an awful lot, but he landed very little. It's an easy mistake to make when watching a fight in progress, but look back at the numbers.

Oscar killed himself to move down to 145 to fight Pacquiao, and looked like it. I mean just look at him in that fight, he looked like an old man! Forget weak, he looked frail! 

Now let's look at it from an athlete's standpoint, when your body is so malnourished and forced so far out of its equilibrium, that's exactly what you lose, your equilibrium.

You can't balance, you're slow, you're weak, and everything in between. I mean, Pacquiao is great but how can give him full credit for that win and still sleep at night?

Moving on, I keep reading about Pacquiao's speed. I won't deny it, that man is fast. He's beyond fast, he's a lightening bolt. But all of the sudden Pac's speed is too much for Mayweather? MAYWEATHER?!

I'm not entirely convinced Mayweather isn't the product of some government testing program in which they mixed the DNA of a man and a gazelle.

Watching Floyd on the high speed cameras setting and eying Marquez before throwing a lead right into his face was the closest I've seen to the Planet Earth series showing the dynamics of a cheetah exploding into a sprint. 

And besides, if Floyd can handle the freak-like speed/athletic abilities of Zab Judah, he can handle Manny's. 

Everyone talks about the power difference. Well yeah, there's a difference, Floyd hits hard, Manny hits really hard-really, really hard. You'd be right in this case, Manny's power is his best weapon.

The only problem is that he's fight Floyd Mayweather, a man so elusive the IRS can't even catch him. Has there ever been a shiftier fighter? Pernell Whittaker maybe, and that's a strong maybe. 

I think you'd have a better chance catching a bee-bee in the dark than catching a decent shot on him. His defense will take the sting out of Pacquiao's punches, just like it did with everyone else Floyd fought.

Fans keep writing how Pacquiao has a pension for throwing punches from awkward angles, and how that will break the truly masterful defense of Floyd.

What is this about awkward angles? When has he done this? I've seen him throw an erratic left hand every so often but all of the sudden it's his M.O.? 

Pacquiao, again, is great. However his offense isn't built on his ability to throw "awkward angled punches," for the most part he throws 1-2's in rapid succession, where the first three don't catch you but the fourth snaps your head back and is followed by another four that do land.

On that same note, ever notice how much Pacquiao opens up when he throws? That's a problem, especially when you're fighting a counter puncher like Floyd.

He won't land the first two or three, and wind up for a fourth and get a dose of hard reality delivered from the right hand of Mayweather, and it the night will play out with that tune. 

Manny is a truly gifted boxer and his record speaks for that. Floyd is something else though, something terrible, something that makes him a nightmare to fight. 

I'm not saying don't support Manny Pacquiao: you favor him, I don't, it's what makes the world go 'round. Just at least make a compelling argument that'll shut me up. 

Everything aside, we're very lucky to be witnessing perhaps the two greatest boxers the sport has ever seen step into the ring with each other. 

Now all this rehashing had got my blood boiling, I need a drink. 

All the best.