Only a Pacquiao knockout will do, predicts coach Katende

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Boxing. Floyd Mayweather fights Manny Pacquiao in what has been billed the ‘Fight of the Century’.

KAMPALA. Like all high profile duels, the much-anticipated super fight between WBC world super welterweight champion Mayweather Jr. and challenger Manny Pacquiao due May 3, at the MGM Grand, polarises opinion from all and sundry.
To Dick Katende, the national boxing coach, it is still too close to call but he slightly fancies Pacquiao to stop Mayweather’s flawless record only if the Filipino employs his A-game. However, he quickly opines that Pacquiao shall have to even better his best show to overcome his astute, smarter American opponent.
“A Pacquiao victory can only be made of hard and numerous shots,” he said “In fact, he is better off stopping Mayweather because if it gets to the scorecards, and both have scored closely, Mayweather might reap from home advantage.” He adds that Americans always guard their superiority, unless it is inevitable.
As coach Freddie Roach sent his brother, Al, to New York to collect Roach’s seventh Eddie Futch Trainer of the Year accolade on Friday, the Filipino fighter promised to bring him even the eighth: “You’ll win that next year, because I’m going to knock Mayweather out.”
On the obscene moneys attached to the ‘Fight of the Century’, Katende smiles in wonderment comparing his highest pay-day net sum of £800 against Finnish Tarmo Uusivirta, to the approximate lot of $200m the son of Floyd Mayweather Sr. stands to earn.
“It is absolutely big money,” he said. “Well, I am not a good mathematician, I cannot compare the worth of our earnings back then because this is a new generation altogether, but even in our days there were big-money bouts like Ali-Frazier I.”

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