Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield is convinced Manny Pacquiao will defeat Floyd Mayweather during their mega fight on May 2nd. Holyfield’s reasoning isn’t because of Pacquiao’s fighting style, but rather a conspiracy theory he has about the professional boxing business.
“Mayweather won’t win, because from what I’ve seen, boxing doesn’t want nobody to get out [of the sport] undefeated,” Holyfield told Sports on Earth. “They want to keep the money in the sport by doing things to make it happen this way: Somebody beats the man, and then somebody beats the man who beat the man, and then somebody beats the man who beat the man who beat the man who beat the man.”
“So I’ll tell you what’s going to happen, because it’s going to be a close fight. Yeah, it’ll be close, and Pacquiao is going to get the decision. Then it’s going to be a matter of whether Mayweather is going to fight again, whether he feels like he has made enough money to say, ‘I ain’t got to fight.'”
“It’s a good chance Mayweather is not going to hang it up, so there’s going to be another $100 million [fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao] and all like that. [Boxing executives] set it up that way. It’s because they will not let you out of boxing undefeated, not unless you trick them.”
Interesting theory. Some people think it’s an outlandish thought but it doesn’t sound that farfetched to me.
