As has become the custom after every Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather fight over the last two years, the monotonous chant for a fight between the sports two biggest stars will soon begin. Message boards and forums will become clogged with ?Flomos? and ?Pactards? waging keyboard wars against each other?s sexuality and loyalty to Mayweather or Pacquiao. ESPN will trot out resident blowhard, Skip Bayless to tell us why Floyd Mayweather will never accept the fight, and we will see an uptick in their coverage of boxing until it is bumped in favor of full scale coverage of Tim Tebow?s first game with a completion percentage of 50 percent or more.
Will it all be for naught? Are we just whistling Dixie in a windstorm while Pacquiao and Mayweather go about business as usual (not fighting each other)? Floyd Mayweather has announced that he will likely return to the ring on May 5 and he is looking to make the fight everyone wants to see. Prior to Mayweather?s announcement Pacquiao was also circling a May 2012 fight date. To the untrained eye it would appear Mayweather and Pacquiao will finally cross paths in the ring. So why is it so hard to look past the roadblocks that can keep the biggest fight of this young century from happening?
It doesn?t take a Rhodes Scholar to see that Manny Pacquiao has trouble with crafty counter-punchers. Juan Manuel Marquez, who just lost another close and debatable decision to Manny Pacquiao, has been able to nullify Pacquiao?s flash and dash offense. Over the course of the 36 rounds of war waged between Pacquiao and Marquez, a mere seven points separates the two gladiators on the scorecards. It has been more than three years since we?ve seen Pacquiao lose more than two rounds against an opponent, and the last such incident was against none other than Marquez.
