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Report: Manny Pacquiao fought Floyd Mayweather with torn rotator cuff

By Josh Hill

May 2, 2015; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Floyd Mayweather (black/gold trunks) and Manny Pacquiao (yellow/red trunks) box during their world welterweight championship bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Mayweather won via unanimous decsion. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
May 2, 2015; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Floyd Mayweather (black/gold trunks) and Manny Pacquiao (yellow/red trunks) box during their world welterweight championship bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Mayweather won via unanimous decsion. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports /
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Manny Pacquiao lost to Floyd Mayweather on Saturday night, but the boxer is blaming a shoulder injury that might have been serious. 

When Floyd Mayweather beat Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night, the excuses as to why he lost already started to pour in. Pacquiao refused to say that Mayweather won the fight and after the fact cited a shoulder injury as to the reason he didn’t win the big fight.

Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s trainer, backed this claim up after the fight but it was someone else who took everything to a whole different level.

According to Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum, the reason that his fighter lost was due to a torn rotator cuff — something that is a little more than just a bump and a scrap.

"Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said it was the same injury Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant suffered, a torn rotator cuff that ended his 2014–2015 season."

If this is indeed the case and not an overblown statement — which it very well might be — then this changes things about the fight we saw. May weather said after the fight that he was injured too and that Pacquiao is basically complaining that he lost, but a torn rotator cuff is a serious injury for a boxer to deal with.

It’s also a massive lapse in ethics by the medical evaluators to allow Pacquiao to fight with that kind of an injury and it goes to show just how badly the Filipino wanted this bout. If he dodged and danced around a torn rotator cuff in order to fight Mayweather, then that might be all the evidence we need to suggest that another fight will indeed happen at some point down the road.

Either way, Pacquiao lost the fight, and whether his shoulder was simply injured or if it was ripped to shreds seems to be irrelevant at this point in time.

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