Mayweather: Don’t blame me
Floyd Mayweather Jr. said fight fans who felt disappointed on fight night last May 2 should be pointing their fingers at Manny Pacquiao.
Mayweather said he just did what he normally does and what he’s done all his life inside the boxing ring: Find a way to win.
“Please don’t be mad at me. I’m the winner,” Mayweather, just a win away from matching Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 record, told FightHype.com.
At the same time, the 38-year-old Mayweather slammed hopes of a rematch between him and the injured Filipino superstar.
Mayweather said it’s not going to happen. He wished Pacquiao luck with whatever the latter plans to do in the future.
“I done what I had to do, so, you know, Pacquiao, I wish you nothing but the best; keep up the good work,” said Mayweather.
Pacquiao hurt his right shoulder during the period bridging the third and fourth rounds, and said he wasn’t 100 percent the rest of the way.
But Pacquiao, upon his arrival from the United States last Wednesday, said he still gave his best and managed to put up a good fight.
Mayweather called him a “sore loser” and a “coward” for using the injury as an excuse. Pacquiao said it’s not the case. “Let’s not fan the fire that he’s saying I’m a coward. Kung sino ang tumakbo siya ang coward (The one who ran is the coward),” said Pacquiao.
Pacquiao said the people will be the judge if he’s a coward or not.
“Ang tao ang mag- judge kung duwag ako o
hindi,” he said. The Filipino fighter, despite hurting his right shoulder in training last April 4, came to fight. But Mayweather had other plans. “It’s not my fault that I was able to alleviate anything that he was trying to do. What I did was whatever your best attribute is, I take it away from you, I disarm you, and that’s what I do,” he said.
“We did what we had to do. I was the better man,” Mayweather told FightHype.com.
Pacquiao is home in General Santos City with his family and his constituents.
No, he’s not thinking of a rematch either, not even about boxing.
“Frankly I don’t know if we’d ever fight again,” Pacquiao’s adviser, Mike Koncz, told The STAR.