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When the legends are getting excited about the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, you know you're getting ready to witness something historical.
Prior to the May 2 fight date, some of boxing's royalty and legends sat down with HBO to provide their analysis of this generation's super fight. Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley provide unique insight as two boxers who have gone toe-to-toe with both Mayweather and Pacquiao.
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"You ever have a fly in front of you and you can't catch it," De La Hoya said of his fight against Pacquiao. "Manny Pacquiao was like that for eight rounds. He would throw punches and punches in bunches and he was landing everything. I just couldn't throw back."
Along with De La Hoya and Mosley, George Foreman, Bernard Hopkins and Lennox Lewis also weighed in on how their historic boxing matches compared to the hype surrounding the upcoming duel.
Foreman, similar to Mayweather, was undefeated when he faced off against Muhammad Ali and remembered feeling a bit too cocky during the Rumble in the Jungle. "Like with all undefeated fighters, you get a little over-confident. You just start thinking 'Hey, no one can beat me! I've never lost.' And that's OK for other people to say that, but when you start believing it yourself, that's when you're defeated already," he said.
Perhaps Foreman thinks that confidence will go to Mayweather's head, since he's picking Pacquiao to win in an interesting fashion. As for the rest of the picks, most of the legends are rolling with Mayweather, though they're not counting Pacquiao out.
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