"I mean, I thought his performance was dominant, but at the same time, who was Chris Algieri? I mean, if Floyd would have fought Chris Algieri, the whole world would have crucified him. There is a different standard. I mean, yeah, Manny Pacquiao won; he beat a guy that he should have beat, but he had no experience at all. To be honest, to me, I didn't even think the guy won the fight against Provodnikov," stated world-class trainer Jeff Mayweather, who was unimpressed with the recent performance of 8-division world champion Manny Pacquiao, who won a lopsided unanimous decision victory that included six knockdowns of previously undefeated WBO jr. welterweight champion Chris Algieri. According to Jeff, Algieri should have never been fighting Pacquiao in the first place and the performance of Pacquiao was nothing to get excited about.
"It's one of those situations where Manny gets credit for beating an average Joe. I mean, a guy that had one good moment in boxing, now all of a sudden, he's somebody. At the end of the day, Chris Algieri was nobody and he showed up like nobody. He showed that he didn't even belong in the same ring," Mayweather explained during a recent conversation with FightHype's Percy Crawford. "When he said he was letting him out of the cage, that was the only legitimate knockdown of the night. All of the other knockdowns that Pacquiao had, Algieri created himself because he was so scared and off balance and everything. I never seen a guy fight like that in a fight of this magnitude...Basically he dropped the ball. He didn't even give half the performance he did against Provodnikov, making Manny Pacquiao look like he was way better than he was. But at the same time, we're talking about a guy that's on an elite level and a guy that just so happened to get a gift decision to me and then happened to be in a big fight. That's what I think happened."
Mayweather added, "To be honest, I wasn't impressed with Pacquiao at all. Of course he did what he was supposed to do to a guy that didn't really have any experience and never had no big fights and just happened to be on a stage that was way too big for him. I think Pacquiao was sloppy. He missed so many punches and because of the fact that Algieri couldn't punch is why Pacquiao didn't get hurt in the fight because he got punched with the same exact right hand that he walked into when he fought Marquez that knocked him out cold."
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