10 Reasons Why You Need To Watch Mayweather Vs Pacquiao

Some fights need a little help to bolster the viewing figures and engorge the purses; Mayweather vs. Pacquiao is not one of them.

Without question, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are the two most accomplished and respected boxers of recent decades. Plenty of other fighters – Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, the Klitschkos and Joe Calzaghe, to name but a few – marked themselves out as all-time greats along the way, but Mayweather and Pacquiao are a class apart.

Mayweather is closing in on an astonishing seventeen years as a world champion and has won titles in five weight divisions, defeating a remarkable roster of opponents along the way: Diego Corrales, Arturo Gatti, Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley, Miguel Cotto – the list goes on.

Pacquiao has also fought and beaten De La Hoya, Hatton, Marquez, Cotto and Mosley, and you can add the likes of Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, Antonio Margarito and Timothy Bradley to his impressive ledger.

These names might not mean much to the uninitiated, but to boxing fans they amount to a who’s who of the sport’s best exponents of recent times. Both Mayweather and Pacquiao will be remembered as two of the best fighters to ever lace up gloves, and their spots in the Canastota’s International Boxing Hall of Fame have been reserved for years already.