Bernard Hopkins claims "Floyd Mayweather would beat Manny Pacquiao because the styles that African-American fighters -- and I mean, black fighters from the streets or the inner cities -- would be successful.".......Huh?

Manny Pacquaio

Bernard Hopkins

In a recent interview, former boxing middleweight world champion Bernard Hopkins goes on to say that Manny Pacquaio would lose to Floyd Mayweather because he's black and from the streets of inner cities. He also claims that he's the voice for other black fighters and fight fans who are thinking the same thing but are reluctant to say. Manny Pacquiao has won titles in 8 different weight classes and has moved up in weight class several different times, it just so happens that none of them were black people from the inner cities. One of Pacquiao's recent victories came over opponent Joshua Clottey, who is from Ghana and black, but Hopkins dismissed that win saying "Clottey is 'black', not a 'black boxer' from the states with a slick style." Bernard Hopkins needs to put his foot in his mouth because Manny Pacquiao will fight anyone, whether they're white, black, green or purple.

Joshua Clottey

The Philippines (where Pacquiao is from) is a third world country where you have to fight to eat sometimes. Pacquiao grew up in the slums while Mayweather grew up learning and watching from his father Floyd Sr., who was also a professional boxer. Pacquiao has agreed to everything Mayweather wants to do. Including all of the olympic style blood testing that Floyd wants him to do. The fact is, Mayweather is scared and always handpicks his opponents, preferably around the age of 35 or over with their careers winding down. If he wasn't scared then the fight would have already happened. There is no reason to wait around, let's get this match going and settle everything. Not to mention, both sides would make at least 15 million a piece from sales and endorsement deals.

With boxing losing interest in people every year, and with the emergence of MMA, professional boxing needs this match to happen. It will be one of the most anticipated matches of all time. The winner would go down as the best boxer of their generation, and not to mention one of the best all time. If and when this fight goes down, I'm putting my money all on the pac-man. He has everything to gain and nothing to lose. He has already lost matches, Mayweather hasn't. Mayweather refers to himself as the best ever, but won't fight the best boxer in his weight class. You can't refer to yourself as the best ever, if you haven't beaten the best yet. Put your money where your mouth is Mayweather and sign the dotted line, and no pun intended because your nickname is "money."