Is Mayweather Avoiding Pacquiao by "Retiring?"

Recently, in a YouTube video, Floyd Mayweather said that he's taking one to two years off from boxing.

And when I saw it, I thought that it couldn't be true. Or, it could be a smoke screen to keep the possibility of a Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao fight talk alive.

Floyd Mayweather said that he's hanging up the gloves for a while. His uncle, Roger Mayweather, said that's not true.

So, is Floyd Mayweather playing mind games by refusing to fight the Pac-Man?

That would give the perception that he's running from the Filipino.

One of my readers, Victor, disagrees with my immature, fifth-grade analogy of this superfight, if it ever happens.

I think he's the biggest, ugliest, GED-educated moron who ever read anything I wrote on boxing.

If I ever saw Victor...by the time I'm finished, he would look like a dazed Sugar Shane Mosley after a couple of Mayweather blows.

According to a Roger Mayweather interview on fightfan.com last December, he said his nephew will beat Pacquiao.

Even Ricky Hatton said Floyd Mayweather will beat Pacquiao. He fought both of them and said that Floyd is the tougher fighter.

Roger also said that a Floyd vs. Manny fight will rank right up there with Marvin Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard and Oscar De La Hoya vs. Felix Trinidad.

He has no doubt that it will be the biggest fight ever and will draw well.

Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's trainer, said in May 2009 that Mayweather just wants all the money anyway, and he doesn't draw big crowds at his fights. Roach, at the time, preferred Mosley to fight Pacquiao because he'll bring the fans in the building.

But he wanted Mosley to fight at 142 pounds.

In fact, Mosley said on TMZ last June that he was hoping promoter Bob Arum would let him fight Pacquiao.

Mosley, looking a little buzzed, was interviewed on the street. Mosely said he wanted Pacquiao, then Mayweather.

Unfortunately, it didn't go that way for the man who once said he was the pound-for-pound champion.

Pacquiao and Mayweather also claimed to be PFP champs.

Mayweather, meanwhile, doesn't have to prove anything to anyone.

After 17 fights in Mayweather's professional career, he won his first championship. Over a decade or so, Mayweather won five more titles.

The debate is not over about who's the best fighter ever.

So what if Pacquiao won the Boxer of the Year award? As Roger Mayweather said, the Pac-Man didn't really fight any tough fighters. Floyd Mayweather's toughest fights in his career were believed to be against Emmanuel Burton and Diego Corrales.

If it came down to speed vs. skill in Mayweather and Pacquiao, the Pac-Man has the edge.

Roger Mayweather thinks Floyd is the better skilled fighter, since they're both boxers. If the match turned into a street brawl, Floyd would destroy Manny.

All that hype about a possible Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight was supposed to happen a long time ago. I think Mayweather will beat Pacquiao and will shut him up.

And I'll do my part to shut up Victor.