Motivation for Success

If there is one thing that we can probably all admit to, that thing is undoubtedly going to be success. Success can be anything or everything, whether it is in relationships, popularity or earning a lot of money. It is there and we all want it but only a handful can truly call themselves successful. Growing up I have observed a number of highly successful people, these are both people in the media and in our day to day lives. These are the qualities that I have noticed every so often and I have compiled them in order to produce this post.

1. Relentless Work Ethic

Unfortunately we live in a world where most individual accredit talent as the singular reason of success. We all know those individuals that will comment on the talent of that famous soccer/football player or that musician or even actor, they will always claim that these individuals were extremely lucky to be so talented and that is why they are so successful. That cannot be further from the truth, talent is an important factor there is no doubt about that however talent can only take you that far.
One of my favorite actors Will Smith always suggested that the only reason why he has reached his worldly success is because of his relentless even sickening work ethic.

An interview with Will Smith on Focus and Work Ethic

This theory however is not just limited to the likes of Will Smith,  we can always note that talent alone is simply not enough. Another individual that comes to mind is Christiano Ronaldo, currently the highest payed football player in the world.

We can all complain about the way dresses or the number of times he gets his haircut during a football game but we cannot deny the fact that he has an incredible work ethic. A couple of years ago, Christiano starting out in Manchester United was easily outshined by his fellow team mate Wayne Rooney, however one can easily note that Christiano has truly managed to make a great of himself by the amount of distance he has moved in such a short period of time.  His work ethic was so incredible that he managed to compete with and beat the likes of Lionel Messi, a no doubt incredibly astonishing player.

2.  Planning

Planning is absolutely essential for any form of success, I simply cannot emphasize this point enough. 

                                          “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”- Benjamin Franklin

Envision yourself as a captain of a ship and you have decided to set sail across the seven seas,  the one thing that you need to know before even setting sail is to decide upon a destination, life  can be seen as the same way. We are all captains of our lives however most of us have unfortunately have not set a  destination for their voyage. That is also reflected later in life as most of us will end up lost at sea or if lucky end up on an Island. This metaphor was used previously in a very entertaining documentary that I looked up a while ago and it was all about the significance of planning your life. Statistics show that most young 20 year olds have an outstanding outlook on life, they all believe they will attain success and riches whilst only a handful actually reach their goals. A large number of them even end up receiving financial support from the government.  I do not believe that all of these individuals simply gave up on their hopes or dreams however it is likely that some of them did but the truth of the matter is that many of them did not have a plan to begin with therefore they all end it up lost in the sea of life.

Floyd Mayweather, the most successful but also the most hated boxer in the world.

3. Standards

Whilst listening to one of my favourite motivational speakers, a man by the name of Tony Robbins.In one of his famous speeches, Tony mentions a very interesting point about standards during his speech, he tells that the gap between good and great is a lot smaller than a lot of people think. You see, good workers will work and do their job to the best of their abilities however they will never get the credit they deserve for it. On the other  hand great workers only push the boundaries a little higher than good workers and they get all the credit possible. The reason why good workers are good whilst great workers are great is solely because of standards. I would like to use Floyd as an example, Floyd was originally one of  Bob Arum's fighters, a famous fight promoter in the world of boxing. However after a number of disputes, Floyd decided to start his own promotion company namely Mayweather promotions. The media always was highly critical of Floyd because of his flamboyant lifestyle however there is a reason that a number of people tend to overlook. The reason why Floyd is the why he is, is simply because he is true to himself. Bad boy or not, Floyd is as outspoken as they come. The reason why Floyd decided to leave Bob Arum is simply because he was sick of being the B-side in boxing whilst the famous Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya had all the prosperity. Floyd decided to become his own boss and take matters into his own hand, this is because Floyd always had standards and always believed he was simply the best fighter of his generation. Hate him or love him, his success speaks for itself and he has secured a  place for himself amongst the greats of boxing.

The lesson to be learned here is to set your standards high  and be true to yourself no matter the consequences.

“You're born an original, Don't die a Copy!”- John Mason

4. Tenacity

I was fortunate to grow up to all the Rocky movies, as it was back when movies had a well made message behind them. If there is one thing that i loved about Rocky, then  that is his incredible tenacity. Rocky took hits from incredible opponents on several occasions but always persisted even if the odds were clearly put against him. I have met a number of highly talented individuals, whether it was guys in my science class growing up, my martial arts club or at the workplace. Unfortunately most of them seemed to have largely unfulfilled potential, the truth is that you can be smartest guy on the planet but you may still fail your job interview. That does not make you less of who you are but life sometimes just decides to throw you a curveball that you simply cannot control.  You have to persist and keep moving forward, if you are push back then push forward and keep going until you reach your goals. Always remember that failure is a part of success.

“When you fall, fall forward”- Dr. Denzel Washington

5. Belief

“A man can change his stars and I won't spend the rest of my life as nothing”- William Thatcher"A Knight's Tale"

I firmly believe that we are all blessed in some way or another however unfortunately not all of us are born into an ideal home or live an ideal life. Some of us  have problems at home or were born from a poor background and sometimes having an optimistic outlook in life is truly challenging.  From all the points that I have mentioned earlier, this has to be the most essential one and one that I have witnessed over and over again in a number of highly successful individuals. Although the Knight's Tale was not exactly a blockbuster movie for me personally however I found it admirable that the protagonist although came from a poor background managed to become a highly successful individual later in life. I am quite aware that it is all fiction but I have personally witnessed this same quality in a number of people from all different walks of life. As I am a big boxing fan, I will have to take into consideration the 8 division world champion Manny Pacquiao.

Manny was brought up in a very humble home and had to at times gone days without any food. He had to pick up boxing in order to get food for his family. He always had the belief that he will get out of poverty and become an incredibly successful boxer, owing to his belief and work ethic he managed to become one of the most wealthy boxers of our generation. If he can do it, what is your excuse?.

Another person that have clearly defined her destiny is JK Rowling, mainly known for publishing arguably the most popular fictional story of our generation Harry Potter. Before Harry Potter hit the top reading lists and made it into world cinema, the book was originally rejected by not one or two but by 12 different publishers. Joanne however had belief in her book and the book was then published by the 13th publisher.  

To conclude this post, success is something we all can achieve and nothing but ourselves can truly stop us from achieving it. It is about the hard work we put in, our standards, our belief and our go-getter mind set that makes us successful individuals.  Stephen Covey mentioned in his book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People " that a person must always concentrate on his/her circle of influence and improve himself/herself in the way that is available to him/her.  Do what you can do to be the best version of yourself, become a better person today than you were yesterday.

Note that I personally do not see myself to have truly fulfilled my full potential and attained my goals in life, however I am in the same boat as a lot of other people, I am simply working on myself and trying my best to make my dreams come true just like everybody else.

Thank you for taking your time and reading this post, I hope that it has somehow encouraged to you to work harder and achieve your success.

Thank you and God bless.

An amazing quote by an even  more amazing mentor.

The 5 different personalities you see at the gym

After making a comeback to the gym environment  as I had taken a long break, I came across a number of gym personalities that I found quite hilarious,  some were quite entertaining whilst others well let's  say they were just irritating. Here are the 5 different personalities you see at the gym.

"Your typical meat head"

1. Whilst checking out the so called bad ass "free weights" section, which happens to be basically anything but free as you need to pretty much compete against like a thousand juiced up guys for the bench press, you bare witness to the first type of gym personality.  I find this to be the most entertaining as these guys will pretty much do a lot more shouting and grunting then well lifting. I find it absolutely hilarious when I see your common steroid freak grunting like he is pretty much giving birth mean while doing your regular standard biceps curls, now you can only imagine what happens once he hits the squat rack (Just kidding that rarely ever happens as they all tend to have your classic chicken legs syndrome).

Looking at this situation from an optimistic point of view , you can always at least witness their flawless lifting technique (not really..).

2.  The second annoying personality at the gym has to go to the amazing self proclaimed gym "teachers". You finally finished school/university and decided to hit the gym in order to just pump some iron and relax in order to get away from all the schooling bullshit that you go through on a daily basis, that is when you meet one of those gym teachers. These guys will initially just stare you down and then approach you while your basically barely holding your form as you have been working towards your final failure set and then these guys will start instructing you on your freaking FORM!. Even if you have no clue who this person is and do not care for what their freaking advice is. The sad part is, unlike actual personal trainers, these guys do not even get paid but yet they like to show off about their so called gym knowledge. Please go mind your own business or better yet actually get paid for your so called "gym knowledge" as I honestly do not give a ****. Please leave me alone before I slam you with my barbell, I bet you didn't see that coming huh Mr.Smart Guy.

"The next time someone unprofessional criticizes your form, I recommend the following response."

"Gym goers on their typical hardcore workout session"

3. So there I am waiting for the smith machine and I see this guy basically chilling next to it whilst texting. Being a nice guy that I am, I approach this dude and ask him when he will be finished with the machine, he simply replies that he is resting right now and he will then proceed to finish off   his last set. So i stand there waiting like a freaking jackass whilst this guy finishes his so called workout, What i did not know at the time was that this so called rest period was basically 15 minutes of intense texting. His correct response should have been should have been more like, well I need to finish my last set but before that I have to do thousand text repetitions.

"Now that looks like one intense workout"

" Now for the 4th personality type, I like to call these the show-off types"

4.  Unlike your typical roided gym goer personality that we talked about previously, these guys  would rather spend most of their time checking out their abs than actually doing any work. This is the type of person that would lay down on the mat to do like ten basic crunches, he/she will then stand in front of the mirror either to check out their abs or take selfies. Now I urge you to compose yourself as your natural instincts would probably tell you to the beat the hell out of these guy but hey I bet their photo editing skills are through the roof.

"This is so true, it's not even funny"

"Fellow gym goer diagnosed with the chicken legs pandemic"

5. The last and final gym personality has to go to your infamous chicken legs. The funny thing about a number of bodybuilders is that they have incredible upper bodies with the skinniest legs possible, I mean what the hell happened to leg day. As funny as these guys look, one must always take the chicken legs pandemic incredibly seriously. I have listed below a number of syndromes that are big indicators for this syndrome, these are the following:

• If your gym routine looks anything like the following, you my be infected by this pandemic. Monday(biceps), Tuesdday(biceps),Wednesday(Cardio (1000 texts reps)), Thursday(biceps), Friday(chest). The above schedule is an enormous indicator of the possibility of a chicken legs infection.
• If you wear a size XL shirts/tank-tops whilst wearing the skinniest pants you can find.
• If your so called leg workout only consists of training calves.
• If all girls at the gym can squat more than you even though you are twice as heavy.

If you have any or all the above syndromes, I have to urgently advice you to spend at least spend 20 minutes of your workouts squatting or dead-lifting, note that any leg machines do not count.

"My typical response to anyone showing off about their amazing gym workouts whilst they have legs skinnier than bloody spongebob square-pants"

"Now those are some toned legs alright"

I think that is enough ranting about your standard gym personalities for one post, either way I hope you guys had a fun read and also an overall great day. I must admit though that all this talk about chicken legs made me kinda hungry, if you know what I mean.

"Mmmm chicken legs, nom nom nom..."

8 things that annoy me about working in retail

We have all been there, well most of us anyway. Whether you had to make some quick bucks on weekends or during your years at school, retail seemed like the place to be. You need little to no experience to get into it but sooner or later you realize that the life of a retail sales assistant is perhaps not as easy going as it seems to be . This is the reason why I decided to write this article and tell you  about the eight things that annoyed me the most during my work in retail.

1. Number one has to go to the statement "The customer is always right". During your years working at your favorite shoe retailer or well the only retailer around that actually was desperate enough to hire you as another staff member happened to have suffered a mental breakdown during their last shift, you stumble upon a very common statement that management tends to enrich you with "The customer is always right". So being as inexperienced as you are in the industry, you simply assume that perhaps the customer is always right however after months go by and by spending long shifts at you favorite work place something changes. You start noticing that most customers are actually always wrong, but as you are a mere sales assistant you can only nod and agree during which when your customer is convinced that they are a size 4 because of their so called "petite"feet when you can clearly see that those shoes are on the verge of bursting open. But hey just nod and smile, because the customers is always right even when they happen to be utterly retarded.

2. The second most annoying thing is the crazy cat lady or well the retail equivalent of that which is the crazy shoe lady. This type of customer will come into your store and try every single shoe on sight and sometimes just leave the place without buying anything.  She will mess up every single shoe stand you have and the shoes she is trying on will cover a 10 meters radius. She will keep trying on shoes repeatedly by using excuses such as "I have funny feet", "The brands I like do not come in half-sizes" or the more famous "It is really important for me to get a different sandal for each day for my trip to the South of France as otherwise I will feel so very under dressed for the occasion ". If you manage to stumble upon this type of  customer then may Jesus, Allah, Buddha or whatever you believe in help save your soul as otherwise you will get a taste of retail hell.

Weekends happen to become an alien concept for retailers, as they happen to be WORKING.

3. You just started at your retail job and decided to go out Friday night with your friends, oh well I suggest you cancel that as you will be freaking working weekends. This is probably the most frustrating factor of having a retail job as just everyone you know will brag about their weekend plans or what they did the past weekend whilst you will sit there at work serving a bunch of customers that also happen to be bragging about how awesome their weekend is going and the amount of shopping that they have done. 

A common way of dealing with your common douche bag customer.

4.  Douche bag customers are one of the most annoying things in retail and unfortunately they happen to be found in every corner. For some God forsaken reason, some customers think that they can get away with pretty much anything as they have graced you by walking into your store and have considered buying your absolutely cheapest item. They also happen to think that for some reason whatever happens to their order is particularly your fault even  though head office simply decided to write the wrong address on the item, but hey at least they do not need to deal with these customers directly as you are having the pleasure of doing that.

You after being asked to work Christmas.

5.  Growing up public holidays were always something that you gladly looked forward to, whether you were looking forward to your new game-boy color, hanging out with your not so awesome relatives or simply catching up on your serious gaming career, holidays were at some point or another pretty awesome. That is until you started working at your local retailer. Public holidays are basically retail Armageddon and unlike the movie unfortunately you will not end up marrying Grace as it simply never ends well.

Sorry buddy :)

You will however manage to serve some of the most interesting customers on the planet even some that you perhaps never thought actually existed. The gif below demonstrates your common Christmas shopping customer, enjoy your holidays.

Hey at least sales are up which is great if you work on commission otherwise please try not to kill anyone. 

6.  If you are a music fan, this may irritate you the most as you will not only get irritated by the very outdated music that is played at your store but also by the fact that each song happens to be on repeat all the time. The sad part is that your brain has forcibly learned all the lyrics and sometimes out of shear boredom you cannot help yourself but to sing along. But hey the good thing is that your new improved singing skills will probably improve your chances on the X-factor and maybe one day you will leave this place by becoming a famous singer.

Or not...

7. Customers that have mistaken your store for a psychiatrist office, believe it or not I am payed to sell you goods not to listen about why you had your recent divorce as your ex-husband found it convenient to cheat on you with a random street hooker . I actually have better things to think about like for instance the release date of the next call of duty game instead of your relationship problems.

I sell shoes, the therapist office happens to be next door. The only thing I can really do is point you to the nearest bridge in case you want to commit suicide, which will be a pleasure really.

8.  Long hours, you will work extremely long hours especially during public holidays and unlike other roles you have to always to smile and pretend like you do not have a single worry in the world. Even though you will be working 60 hour work weeks, be payed minimum wage and will still have to live on ramen noodles, oh the good times. 

I hope you guys have somewhat enjoyed my article although i must admit that there is some good points about working in retail such as meeting some decent people and well the discounts if your store actually offers any. This post could perhaps help people understand that life in retail is not as easy as it seems to be and maybe this time they will not burst into your store in order to find your lonesome sales assistant and then proceed to try every shoe on the planet especially when the store closes in 5 minutes time as the person serving you may be carrying a revolver.

Just had to end this post with the gorgeous Scarlett Johansson :)

Why Krav Maga is so freaking awesome!!

Although most people will probably have no clue what Krav Maga is let alone why it is so freaking awesome. I  have therefore taken the liberty to cancel my otherwise important plans (watch Netflix all day) in order to explain to you why you should pick up the phone and join your nearest KMG club.

"Not KMG"

So now the question remains, What is KMG?

Well Krav Maga is a  self defence system that is devised for the Israeli military and has proved to be a huge success in  different military/security divisions world-wide. The success of KMG is mainly contributed to it's simplicity as it is based upon your own natural reactions.

 Previous to KMG, I practiced a number of different martial arts these include and are not limited to Kung Fu, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jujitsu in addition to some other ones that I practiced briefly. The reason why I stayed in KMG throughout these years is simply because it has proved to work for me, I will now explain to you the main difference between KMG and the other martial arts that I have practiced in terms of real world practicality.

"Probably not the best demonstration of Kung Fu but there is just something hilarious about a cat practicing tiger style"

I started my martial arts experience in the one and only Kung Fu, after growing up watching a number of Bruce lee movies, it was only natural really.  I spent my time practicing some awesome kicks and although initially you think that this will probably be an absolute killer with the ladies but for some reason they just weren't really into  my whole Jackie Chan persona. I guess randomly performing a spinning back kick really isn't that sexy.

"Watch out ladies here comes my bad-ass  kicking skills, Watchaaaaaaa (Literally sweeps you off your feet) !!!!"

Kung Fu was no doubt the coolest martial art to practice simply because you had the most amazing kicks, forms/Katas in addition to using a number of traditional weapons. But unfortunately Kung Fu fell horribly short in terms of just your classical self-defence. My Kung-Fu master would make me practice the coolest hand forms however unfortunately tiger style was just not really that effective against a robber with a knife let alone 2 or 3 robbers. Now give them guns and my Kung Fu would fly right of the window like all the villains that Bruce Lee side-kicked out. I decided that maybe I should move on to more functional martial arts, so I started Muay Thai.

"This is the modern day god of  Muay Thai Buakaw Banchamek, one of his fun time activities is to chop  trees down only using his shins ( Probably should consider a part-time career as a lumber jack) "

Muay Thai is the hardest form of martial arts out there (literally). A practitioner of this ancient martial art can sustain an incredible amount of pain and give an awful lot back. These guys will not only punch/kick you but they will also land devastating blows with their elbows and knees. They will beat you up so bad that you will suddenly start reminiscing about those high school wedgies, oh nostalgia. As complete as Muay Thai is, it does lack a practical self defence system. I can also imagine it would look quite bad on CCTV if the robber that attempted to steal your MacDonald's coupons would end up looking as if he was hit by a train because of your brutal low kicks.

"This burglar was actually on his way to becoming a male model previous to the incident, he was just having a bad MacDonald's craving."

Now unto another form of martial art and an incredible one at that. This one is dubbed as  the King of Cage, the one and only Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

"In addition to producing stunning beauties (drools...Adriana Lima) Brazil also produces a devastating martial art by the name of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu"

BJJ is a ground based martial arts with roots in the deadly Japanese martial art Jiu Jitsu.  Thousands of practitioners have tapped out because of a foot lock, arm bar or triangle choke by a BJJ practitioner. Any successful UFC champion will tell you that a background in ground fighting is absolutely essential for success however is the octagon the same as your local pub?. A ground fighter can take any stand-up fighter out simply because any stand up fighter will be completely useless on the ground. Ground fighters therefore love to tackle other fighters down in order to easily force them into submission. Now take your local pub scenario, you are going out on a night out and a guy decided that it is in the  best of  his interest to punch you in the face because you just hooked up with the cute blonde that he has been eyeing up all night. You being a bad-ass ground fighter, tackle him down without any hesitation and go for that brutal triangle choke, you are then suddenly knocked out unconscious and wake up in the hospital the next day. You being so bad-ass happen to be absolutely shocked that you got defeated by some drunk hobo, that is until your friend tells you that whilst you were trying to get that triangle choke going , the other guy's best friend decided to simply you stomp you in the head, that is also when blondie decided to make a run for it. Ground fighting is suddenly not to so cool now is it?, well that is when KMG comes in.

"Train Krav Maga and maybe one day you will be join the cast of the Expendables ( Expendables 15 that is as Sylvester Stallone happens to be happily ageing backwards and still out-lifts me at 68 years of age)"

Krav Maga wastes no time on your funky Kung Fu forms  and has effective self defence maneuvers in addition to minimizing ground fighting ( this is to avoid those nasty head stomps ).

Krav Maga will teach you all you need, nothing more. These are all the basic punches,kicks, elbows, knees in order to turn you into an awesome brawler. KMG will then teach you all kinds of knife disarsms (ALL KINDS, seriously every knife you can think of, we probably have a disarm for it) in addition to long range weaponry disarms (pistols, AK-47s, M16s, sniper rifles, bazookas etc..).

Now to replay that pub scenario, a KMG practitioner would quickly disable the random drunk hobo that has been eyeing up his girl all night by striking at a number of weak points instantaneously and then quickly escaping from the fight scene. He would then end up going home with blondie( see Kate Upton ) instead of waking up the next morning looking like that burglar from before.

"Training KMG will grant you a better success rate going home with Kate Upton as being knocked unconscious will radically reduce your chances (Women love to talk on their dates and being an unconscious vegetable is just well unresponsive)"

I believe I have demonstrated the importance of training Krav Maga,  if you are still not convinced check out my video on the subject (see below) otherwise good luck getting with Kate Upton , note there are 3.5 billion men  world-wide also fiercely competing for her but hey now atleast you know Krav Maga.

Things people won't tell you about being an Engineering Student

Study engineering they said, be like Iron man they said.

Engineering, arguably one of the most amazing majors to decide to do during your college/University years. You will be complimented on a regular basis, your parents will be proud of you and  at some point you even may think that you are on your way to becoming all that you ever wanted and even building your own Iron Man suit but then you realize that your dreams have never been further from the truth. This post will talk about the horrors that every engineering student will experience during their time at University.

Plenty of hot girls at campus, they said.

This unfortunate truth will hit you on your first day of University, when you sit in a class of around 300 students and you can count 3 girls in your class, later you find out that 2 of them are already taken.

Engineering is probably the last major on earth for getting any action at all, not only will you not have time to even think about the opposite sex but you will find yourself in a sausage fest during your time as an engineering student and not the awesome October one that they have in Germany. 

The good news is that once your time is over as an engineering student you will find that almost any girl is ten times more attractive than before your time as a student, you will probably believe that you have somehow become more mature and truly believe that beauty is about what is underneath the flesh  but the sad truth is that your years as a student was as  dry as a north African desert and just any girl would do right now. 

Will your lower standards improve your chances with the ladies, I still doubt it as your years in engineering has  managed to send back your dating game back to the dark ages but hey you can always have fun with your calculator. 

Not what an engineering student does during a Friday night.

As your chances with the ladies are incredibly slim during your time at campus, you sudden have a burst of testosterone to try out other avenues like perhaps your local club then you realize that you have three assignments for Monday.  

Social life in engineering is an illusion, pretty much like democracy in the middle east. You will be so overworked during your time , you are a lucky man to have a day off during your week however I cannot say that for the poor students that have to work part-time jobs to pay the rent but yet still have live on ramen noodles. The good news however is that you will be spending so much time at campus with your study buddies that you will all understand each others pain and also reminisce on the good times when you actually have some for of social life. You will also invent  a number of engineering jokes that you will all have a laugh at, however you will soon realize that the general public will not react enthusiastically to your once awesome engineering humor.

Oh yes and your engineering game is absolutely lethal with the ladies, I mean it LETHAL.

An engineering degree is difficult and not for the right reasons. You will spend most of your time doing mindless calculus that has nothing to do with anything  and will have  little to no real world application.  Your professors will bombard you will theoretical assignments and exams whilst other majors will be partying throughout their years then you graduate realizing that they are a lot more suitable for their careers than you are for yours as your professor will manage to teach you every single engineering equation on the planet but you realize that real world engineers do not sit in their offices solving for X.  A mechanical engineering graduate will be able to easily explain to you how a car works theoretically but if your car ever breaks down please call a mechanic as most of us graduates will faint at a sight of a real engine.

An engineering graduate graduating on top of his class will probably know as little as the student that barely scraped for pass about real world applications of engineering. Does that indicate that you should simply do the absolute minimum for your degree and perhaps make some room for that amazing social life, well not if you want to get a job as most jobs will target graduates with top marks even though ironically  all major companies will still give you their own specific training as they know deep down that your degree is pretty much worthless for work.

Your typical engineering graduate

This post may be slightly exaggerated but it is more or less the truth about your average engineering student, however the positive of all of this is that unlike most other majors you will have a better chance getting a job in your field after you graduate.

However please note that most companies are looking for and I quote "recently graduate engineers with 3 years of industrial experience", try solving for X now fellow engineer.

I have made a video in regards to the subject, shown below.

Mayweather Vs. Manny Pacquiao May 2nd Analysis

After all the hype that has been going on in the boxing world, I simply could not resist not to talk about this major boxing event.

Anyone with any knowledge about the sport of boxing should know about these two big names, only if perhaps they have been living in a cave for the last 20 years. Previous to examining the predicted outcome of this highly anticipated bout, one should initially analyse these two world class fighters individually.  Starting with the one and only Floyd "Money"Mayweather.

Coming out with an incredible unmatched record of 47 wins, 26 by knockout and an outstanding 0 loses throughout a career spanning over 20 years, Floyd has definitely earned his spot among the greats. Although Floyd may seem as a flawless fighter, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding his victories. Floyd has been accused of  hand picking opponents, cheating his way out of victories and simply boring out the crowd on many different occasions.

Floyd taking a cheap shot at Victor Ortiz.

His style may not be the most exciting to watch however he has come out victorious over a number of great fighters including and not limited to De La Hoya, Cotto, Hatton and Mosley.

As one of the most technically gifted fighters of our era , the fight with Manny is no doubt to be an exciting one however the question that remains is who will come out on top.

Our next contestant is the people's champ Manny Pacquiao,  with a record of 57 wins, 38 of them by knockouts , 5 losses and 2 draws.

Coming on to the bout after a strong win against previously undefeated Chris Algieri in addition to a number of world class fighters that have joined the long list of fighters that have fallen on the hands of Pac-Man.

Manny is not simply just an amazing fighter but a lovely and multi-talented individual, whether it is the boxing ring, basket ball court or the parliament, Manny has the habit of always coming out on top. In the sport of boxing he is known for his incredibly quick hands, high knockout rate and amazing agility.

Manny staggering Ricky Hatton with his incredible hand-speed, knocking him out repeatedly during their bout.

Although Manny has definitely shown that he is an incredibly talented brawler style fighter, he still lacks the technical finesse that a fighter such as Floyd has. Pac-man has also shown in past bouts that he struggles against more technical fighters, this is clearly shown with his loss against Marquez.

So what may go down on the second of may, is still up for grabs. This amazing fight could go either way. Will Mayweather manage to outbox Pacquiao or will Pac-man put  Floyd in trouble with his incredible hand speed and volume of punches, we will all have to just wait and find out.

For further analysis , my personal prediction of the fight is shown below.

Well that is it for me people,

Have a wonderful day. Peace.