Mayweather Sr: ‘The fight may not go to 6, we might stop Pacquiao early’

“If my son jump on his ass, he will be out of there quick. It might not go 6. We might stop him really early, depends. Depends on how we feel. If he thinks he’s going to over bear Floyd like that, it ain’t going to happen.”
Floyd Mayweather speaking on his son, Floyd Mayweather Junior’s fight with Manny Pacquiao. Senior was talking to the press at the Floyd Mayweather media day before his fight with Manny Pacquiao.

-More than 200 accredited press members from around the world descended upon Mayweather Boxing Club for Tuesday’s Floyd Mayweather Media Day. It was the 11-time world champion Mayweather’s first and only open training session before his welterweight world championship unification mega-showdown against Manny Pacquiao on Saturday, May 2, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas live on pay-per-view.

Superstars Mayweather (47-0, 26 KOs) and Pacquiao (57-5-2, 38 KOs) is promoted by Mayweather Promotions and Top Rank Inc., the live pay-per-view telecast will be co-produced and co-distributed by HBO Pay-Per-View® and SHOWTIME PPV® beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/ 6:00 p.m. PT.

Several dozen television camera crews, newspaper columnists, boxing writers, radio broadcasters, web reporters, photographers and (video) bloggers watched as Mayweather went through the paces during a 90-plus minute workout that included working the heavy bag, smacking the speed bag, hitting the mitts, jumping rope, stretching and doing calisthenics.