Mayweather vs Pacquiao: Statistics, info, numbers, purse

mayweather-vs-pacquiao-news-video-official-2015-05-02 — Mayweather vs Pacquiao

After watching the Mayweather vs Pacquiao preview and At Last produced by Hbo, today we want to compare the two boxers. We like numbers, statistics, data, and since this mega-fight will go down in history of boxing, we want to collect all the stats before the bout happen. So we start to analyze both Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao through two tables. Here’s the first one in which you can see the most common info about the two fighters:

	Floyd Mayweather Jr	Manny Pacquiao
record	47-0-0	57-5-2
KOs (%)	26 (55%)	38 (66%)
last win by ko/tko	2011 Mayweather vs Ortiz	2009 Pacquiao vs Cotto
last loss	/	2012 Pacquiao vs Marquez 4
rounds boxed	363	407
average round x fight	7.72	6.36
age	38	36
height	5’8″ / 173 cm	5’6,5″ / 169 cm
reach	72″ / 183 cm	67″ /170 cm
weight division ranking	No.1 Ww	No.2 Ww
P4p ranking	No.1	No.3

Probably a lot of boxing fans know the info above, so in the second table we have examined in depth the two boxers. For example do you know that Mayweather suffered a knockdown in his professional career? Or do you know they are both in the Guinness World Records? Discover this info and other statistics after the jump!

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NOTE: in the following table we have used the abbreviation “w.c.”=weight classes

	Floyd Mayweather Jr	Manny Pacquiao
knocekd down by	Carlos Hernandez in 2001	Nedal Hussein in 2000, Yeshmagambetov in 2003, Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012
amateur record	84-6	60-4
olympic games medal	bronze (Atlanta 1996)	/
pro debut at age	19	16
pro debut weight	super Fw (130 lbs, 59.0 kg)	light Flw (108 lbs, 49.0 kg)
fought in xxx different w.c.	5	11
world titles in xxx different w.c.	5	8
world title fights	24	21
Guinness World Records	highest selling Ppv boxing fight (2.4 mln) vs De La Hoya	most boxing world titles in different w.c.
Ring Magazine Fight of the Year	/	2012 Pacquiao vs Marquez 4
Ring Magazine Ko of the Year	/	2009 Pacquiao vs Hatton
last fight purse	$32 million Mayweather vs Maidana 2	$24 mln Pacquiao vs Algieri
biggest career payday	$75 million Mayweather vs Alvarez 2013	$30 million Pacquiao vs Marquez 3 2011
Mayweather vs Pacquiao purse	60% ($120 million or more)	40% ($80 million or more)

Do you want to know something else? Ok, tomorrow we are going to post the second part of the statistics about “Mayweather vs Pacquiao” and we are going to examine the punch stats and results of five bouts in which they faced the same opponents.

Link to the fight: Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao