Filipino champ Manny Pacquiao will try to do what 47 fighters tried against Floyd Mayweather Jr.: to beat him. However, Top-Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler claimed that the Pacman will have a violent intention heading into the May 2 megafight in Las Vegas, Nevada, adding that for the first time ever a fighter will slug it out with Mayweather not to beat but hurt him with every punch he'll launch towards him.
Trampler, who served as a match-maker for both Pacquiao and Mayweathe under Bob Arum's Top-Rank Promotions banner, believed the Filipino slugger will offer something different than the past fighters Mayweather fought and conquered with authority.
"This is the first guy Floyd has fought ... when the bell rings, Manny Pacquiao's coming out not to beat him but to knock him out and hurt him. That's his mindset, that's what he's telling us. Floyd's a man. He understands this guy's coming to hurt him," Trampler told Los Angeles Times.
"Floyd knows how to negate everything, how to nullify and neutralize what you're going to do. His whole life, he was bred to be a fighter. Nobody's going to do anything to Floyd that he hasn't seen before, except Manny Pacquiao."
Trampler has no doubt that Mayweather cemented his place in boxing history as the greatest defensive fighter of all time. Then again, Pacquiao is also one of the fiercest offensive forces the sport has ever seen and his fast-paced, unorthodox southpaw style could present real problem to Mayweather's shell-liked defense.
"Nobody's beaten Floyd Mayweather - 47-0, dominated the sport for the last decade - but if you had to design a fighter, a style that could beat [him], you're going to come up with a left-hander who's good with lateral movement, side to side, shifty [who] can punch with either hand."
Pacquiao and Mayweather have been pumping iron in their respective camps as they prepare for what will be the most lucrative fight in boxing history. Pacquiao will defend his WBO welterweight belt, while Mayweather will risk his WBA, WBC and Ring Magazine welterweight diadems in a clash dubbed as the Fight of the Century.