Ray Leonard is just as much fun to watch as Mayweather.

Wow.

And fyi, Floyd pivots out to escape the pocket, but is mostly linear with his offense and defense. Leonard could control the center of a ring and initiate lateral attacks in a way Floyd never has.

 

But he doesn't throw on the move. He skips along the perimeter and rarely pivots to the side. Watch the Lalonde fight for real control of the center through offensive and defensive lateral movement.

In any case, the far bigger flaw with your post is that you suggest Leonard "didn't really engage in high action fights", when he often beat master boxers by biting down and committing to knocking them out, such as Hearns and Benitez, and was in possibly the most highly-skilled all out war caught on tape in the Brawl in Montreal. Not to mention stepping on the gas to stop Mayweather Sr., Lalonde, Kalule, and a host of other fighters. And the fact you mention the Hagler fight makes it obvious you haven't seen the man fight all that much and are making another trollish attempt to portray Floyd in the best historical light possible.

 

Oh snap. :yep

 

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Mayweather does it all and he is a better thinker than Ray Leonard.

 

We'd know that if he fought and matched wits against a natural welterweight with the skills and IQ of Benitez or Hearns. But he didn't. Leonard did though. Oh well!

 

Floyd was better at punching on the move at 130, but it's not how he's fought for most of his career. He didn't laterally attack Gatti, he just stood right in front of him and beat him down.

And how about the rest of the Leonard fights I mentioned?

That's what I thought. The best you can do is vaguely articulate the notion that both men become more offensive when their opponents wear down, which applies to most fighters.

They share some similarities, but are not "very similar". Least of all in the sense that Floyd was not an action fighter. Leonard was not always a thrilling aggressor, but much more of a destructive offensive force than Mayweather ever was.

 

if Floyd had great power, he'd be considered one of the most exciting fighters in the game today. FACT.

 

Floyd and SRL fight nothing alike.
Yes, even during the aggressive days of Mayweather and during the more thinking days of SRL.

The only people who needs an explanation for this are certified huggers of either.