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08th May 2015

Video: Mayweather predicted reaction to Pacquiao fight in 2009

Bang on the money...

JOE

Floyd Mayweather told us back in 2009 that the ‘Fight of the Century’ would be a dud.

Despite all the pre-fight hype, last Saturday’s main event at the MGM Grand was regarded as a let-down following Mayweather’s evasion tactics to defeat Pacquiao on points.

But the champion had told everyone to prepare themselves for an anti-climax six years ago, and shared a snippet of that interview on his Instagram account on Thursday.

“If I beat Manny Pacquiao, you know what they gonna say? ‘You supposed to beat him, you Floyd Mayweather, you the bigger man’. Then if I outbox him they’ll say it was a boring fight,” said Mayweather.

He was right about that…

Throwback to November 15, 2009… As a visionary, I predicted both the outcome and what people would say #TBT

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