Manny pacquiao vs mayweather is the official pound for pound world number 1 and Floyd Mayweather is the unofficial pound for pound world number one, the query is who the rightful proprietor of this acclaim. Floyd Mayweather is held in a higher regard than Manny Pacquiao amongst the boxing neighborhood due to the raw talent the man posses. His boxing means is arguably unrivalled at the current time, and has been throughout the last decade. That is enough for a lot of to say Mayweather deserves recognition for being not only one of the best of his generation, but the most effective that ever lived. Mayweather is on his approach to caving his face into the sports magical book of immortality and that is something Manny Pacquiao cannot claim to be a component of.

Mayweather seamlessly combines flamboyant perfection with ageless mastery to achieve a level of boxing that forty one earlier contenders, including the likes of Oscar De La Hoya, Manuel Marquez and Shane Mosley haven't been able to compete with. Nonetheless Manny Pacquiao is to not be neglected, having reached the absolute pinnacle of the game and in doing so defeating the largest names in the industry. Although when Pacquiao defeated De La Hoya he was preventing a desperately dehydrated man struggling to make weight and feeling the effects of his ever-increasing age. When Mayweather defeated De La Hoya, De La Hoya was in his prime, on the top of his recreation and the apparently the most determined and pumped up he had been his entire career. When Pacquiao defeated Marquez, the fight was a controversial cut up choice and a massively aggressive contest. When Mayweather defeated Marquez, he was coming back from a 12-month break from the ring, but he received by unanimous decision, barely broke sweat and made Marquez look impotent.

It's clear Mayweather needs this battle to occur as a result of he desires the unanimous acknowledgment that he's the best boxer alive, and one of the best that ever lived, but to get this recognition he has to beat Manny Pacquiao. For the sake of the sport this struggle must occur, and I feel after Mayweather fights his subsequent opponent who ever it may be, and Pacquiao fights and beats Margarito, then one of the vital anticipated match-up's of the decade will unravel and when these two men converge, they are going to use one another to measure their own legends on path to boxing immortality.