Who's The Chicken Now?

For the better part of 5-6 years now I've been forced to absorb one of the most ridiculous claims I've ever heard in the history of sports. Don't get me wrong, I've heard some stupid shit before but this one takes the cake.

I'm talking about pundits like ESPN's Skip Bayless grandstanding on air about how Floyd Mayweather Jr., easily the best pure boxer of his generation and arguably the best defensive fighter of all time has tap danced around welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao because, as Skip and a host of others have put it, "Floyd is a chicken".

OK Skip. If you say so. And now that the "Fight Of The Century" is finally on, it's time you people who have echoed this sentiment get your lunch handed to you.

To honestly believe that any professional fighter, let alone an undefeated gym rat with a well documented boxing pedigree, a fighter who just so happens to have mastered an impenetrable defensive fighting technique is "scared" of a naturally smaller opponent with 5 losses on his record...

Well, it's the kind of claim that makes one sound like a total fuckin' idiot, to be honest. You're losing credibility.

To make matters even worse, throwing around words like "scared" and "chicken" to describe a fighter who, win or lose is in a position to take home 80-100 million dollars? Hey look, I'll fight Gennady Golovkin for 3 million dollars tomorrow and I've never fought a round of boxing in my life! 

Point being, think before you speak. 

Because what you're really saying is that Floyd's pride is worth so much to him that he'd be willing to turn his back on that kind of money in fear of ...what, losing?!

Comical.

So let me get this straight. In Skip Bayless' little dream world Floyd Mayweather Jr. must be totally oblivious to the fact that he's already hated nationwide. Otherwise, what does he have to lose? He's not exactly Rocky Balboa pre Clubber Lang. You mean to tell me the arrogant fighter who thrives on playing the bad guy has absolutely no clue people don't like him?

Is Skip Bayless insinuating that Floyd would turn his back on 1/10 of a billion dollars simply because he doesn't like the prospect of a 47-1 record? Honestly, the ridiculousness of this claim really has nothing to do with Floyd and everything to do with Manny.

Look, I don't know what Manny Pacquiao you people are watching but to suggest anyone would turn away from that kind of money paints the portrait of a challenge far greater than fighting Mike Tyson in his prime.

I mean, the Manny Pacquiao fan base has such a selective short term memory you'd think they got hit harder than he did the night he found himself sound asleep on the canvas. And to that point, just the fact that the man who wrote this bedtime story is Juan Manuel Marquez, a fighter who got absolutely taken apart by Mayweather...

It only makes your "chicken" comments even more ridiculous.

Long story short, we're gonna witness who the "chicken" is. All I ask is when the dust settles and you Pac Quacks sit there sucking on your sour grapes and watching your hero get his ass handed to him, don't run to the coupe and start telling me bout how Floyd "waited" until Manny was "washed up".You can't have it both ways.

Because I can hear you already. You lost when the fight was signed. 

Quite frankly I'm sick and tired of listening to pseudo boxing experts like Skip Bayless who don't know shit about the sport of boxing but can blow smoke up your ass with the best of them. "Chicken". You gotta be fuckin' kidding me.

The truth is at no point in Manny Pacquiao's illustrious career could he ever beat Floyd. Manny was at the top of his game beating greats the likes of Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barerra while fighting at 126 pounds. A weight class Floyd Mayweather could never make. Not now. Not 15 years ago. The day Manny decided to step up in weight and fight with the big dogs was the day his decline started.

And on May 2nd, that little dog is gonna be in the ring with a Cane Corso.