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12th Mar 2015

Video: Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao engage in ludicrously overdramatic stare down

And the Oscar goes to...

Ben Kiely

The fight that every wanted five years ago is finally happening and the hype train is fully fitted with all the bells and whistles.

The most highly anticipated boxing match of the decade is set to go down this summer and the both warriors have begun their media obligations.

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather came face-to-face for the official unveiling of their summer superfight with some describing their stare down as “epic”. However, while their 54-second staring contest might have been tense at the time, the tension gets undermined with this over-the-top, cinematic music playing over it.

Come on, lads. It’s a fight between two icons of modern boxing. It doesn’t take that much to convince people to watch it.

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