Mayweather is a naturally stronger fighter than Pacquiao, which is expected due to the higher natural weight, but Mayweather has nothing compaired to the strength of Cotto, who gave Pacquiao some great punches and never rocked him once.
Mayweather is a very accurate boxer, but Pacquiao managed to knock down people bigger than Mayweather due to his great accuracy, with stronger chins, Cotto being the example once again.
Mayweather knocked out Hatton in the 7th and got the decision over De La Hoya, while Pacquiao knocked out Hatton in the 2nd and got the stoppage over De La Hoya.
Mayweather is once of the fastest Welterweights around, ONE of them. Pacquiao came from being a 106 Flyweight, while Mayweather came from a 130 Super Featherweight, which means you have to put the faster boxer as Pacquiao, on paper at least.
I believe Pacquiao would knock Mayweather out. He got rocked badly by Mosley from a wild hook, and Pacquaio shows his accurate counters are better than wild hooks any day.
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