‘Mayweather will never commit Hatton’s mistake’

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SAN DIEGO, California—A member of the Philippine boxing team in the 1976 Montreal Olympics has predicted an “inevitable” showdown between newly crowned IBO light welterweight king Manny Pacquiao and former best boxer in the world pound-for-pound Floyd Mayweather Jr. before the end of 2009.

“Weeks after Manny Pacquiao brought down England’s greatest warrior with a single sledgehammer-like punch in the much-ballyhooed ‘The Battle of East and West’ at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, boxing fans all over the world, especially in Canada, are still agog over the shocking stoppage win of Pacquiao in the second round,” observerd Reynaldo Fortaleza, a former Asian boxing champion.

He said, “So thunderous was the one-punch demolition job of the unorthodox Filipino speedster that promoters are now busy ironing out the kinks to pave the way for the Pacquiao versus Floyd Mayweather Jr. encounter in September or October this year.”

Mayweather, the hitherto best boxer in the world pound for pound, must of course hurdle the snooty Juan Manuel Marquez on July 18 also in MGM Grand to formalize the rich Pacquiao deal. Although he has retired after a checkered career, the comebacking black assassin Mayweather is favored to put away the ambitious Marquez who will invade Mayweather’s division in the 147 lbs for the first time.

A stylish and bicycle rider, Mayweather is expected to give Pacquiao a real hell and he will never commit the same mistake made by Ricky Hatton. If Mayweather will invite Pacquiao to a dance party and the Filipino will oblige, he can outwit and out shuttle the Filipino rib cracker in 12 rounds.

Fortaleza, who lost to Hatton’s compatriot Patrick Cowdell, 4-1, in the bantamweight Olympic quarterfinals, said most of Pacquiao’s opponents recently did not use their brains, “notably the British slugger from Manchester who made his trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr’s blood pressure shoot up when he did not stick to the game plan and elected to slug it out with the dangerous Pacquiao and paid dearly for it.”

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