We still don't know if we'll ever get to see the one fight that every boxing fan on earth wants, Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao
. But we do know that if the fight ever happens, Mayweather will open as a slight favorite to win.The online sports book Bodog has released its odds on the fight, with Mayweather listed as a -140 favorite (meaning you'd need to bet $140 to win $100 on Mayweather), and Pacquiao listed as a +110 underdog (meaning you could win $110 by betting $100 on Pacquiao).
That demonstrates that Mayweather is perceived as the likely winner if the two ever meet in the ring, although he's actually not quite as heavy a favorite as he was last year, when Bodog initially installed Mayweather as a -170 favorite, only to move the number down when money started coming in on Pacquiao.But more importantly, the odds demonstrate that Mayweather vs. Pacquiao would be the only competitive fight either one of them could participate in without moving way up in weight class. Mayweather was listed as a -450 favorite against Mosley, who's probably the third-best welterweight in the world. After Mayweather's performance on Saturday night, either Mayweather or Pacquiao would be listed as favorites of at least -500 against any other welterweight in boxing. There's that big a gulf between the top two and everyone else.
When you start to see odds of -500, you're getting into the kind of territory where people don't think they're seeing a competitive fight, and therefore don't want to plunk down $60 to watch it on pay-per-view. And that's why, despite all the breakdowns in negotiations between the two fighters, I'm still holding out hope that Pacquiao and Mayweather will agree to fight each other. Whether you think Mayweather deserves to be favored or you'd pick Pacquiao to pull off a slight upset, you have to agree that it's a close enough fight to capture your interest. There's no other welterweight either man canfight whom you'd say that about.
Source: boxing.fanhouse.com
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