Floyd Mayweather -Vs- Alexis Arguello - LWW

Floyd was a stylistic nightmare for Arguello. Alexis was one of the finest offensive technicians of all time, but slickers bedeviled him.

Floyd wins a clear UD, ESPECIALLY at 140.

Make this matchup at 130, or 135, and Arguello's chances go up.

 

I am glad to see you give Arguello some recognition on the General Forum though.

Prob a few tards around here who would pick Khan, and Danny Garcia over Arguello.

 

I find it hard to discuss Mayweather against ATG like Arguello cause i dont think Mayweather would have the cojones to step in the ring with them but lets entertain the idea that this would happen Mayweather would trouble Alexis for a while until with his style and with Arguello being a slow starter and all, but once Arguello warms up to the task and gets his offense going this would be a massacre with Arguello handing out a one sided beat down similar to what he did to Escalera in their second fight.

 

At 130 and 135, Mayweather was willing to fight anyone. Don't confuse Mayweather at the beginning of his career with today's Mayweather.

 

Arguello's best chance against Floyd would be at 135. For some reason, 135 was Floyd's worst weight, and Arguello was excellent at 135.

Anybody thinking Floyd gets "massacred" though is selling Floyd short via hate for him.

The only guy who possibly massacres Floyd around that weight is Duran. Duran would beat the **** outta Floyd. But he was a different type of monster than Arguello.

 

Duran didn't "massacre" Edwin Viruet, what makes you think he would "massacre" Mayweather? I have no problem with someone picking Duran over Mayweather but to think that Duran would "massacre" Mayweather seems a little extreme to me.

 

I said if anybody could possibly do it, it'd be Duran.

Duran poses the problems Castillo did 10x.

I think Duran would be in rare form, and highly motivated to kill Floyd, and I think he'd put a pretty good hurting on him.

Floyd probably goes into a shell after awhile.

If we're talking about Floyd vs all time greats, we have to be weight specific. For example, I'd pick Chavez over Floyd at 135, but I'd pick Floyd over Chavez at 140.

Can't see Floyd beating Duran at ANY weight though. Duran was just better than Floyd.

 

A massacre is a bit over the top but I think a stoppage is very likely.
Sure Duran didn't 'massacre' Viruet but Duran beat the **** out of the brilliant slickster Ernesto Marcel who in his last ever fight out boxed prime Alexis Arguello :yep
Duran also walked down the brilliantly fleet of foot Ken Buchanan, not giving 2 shits about Buchanan's, movement, brilliant jab, beautiful boxing ability, fighting spirit and high work rate.
The fact Floyd doesn't hit hard enough to hurt Duran and has low work rate leads me to believe Duran would stalk Floyd relentlessly, while sneering with contempt at Floyds attempts to hurt him.

On the topic of the thread I think Floyd's style would give Arguello a lot of problems but Alexis has dat power that only needs one to put the lights out. If they had a trilogy it would be Floyd 2 Arguello 1.

 

I agree with this entire post.

It'd be a mistake to say Arguello has NO shot against Floyd. I mean, Alexis was 10x better than Corrales.

But Floyd should definitely be the favorite in such a matchup.

We both agree though, he ain't beating Duran. I don't think he'd fight Duran either. I think Duran would intimidate Floyd.

 

There was nothing wrong with Mayweather's workrate and power at 130 and 135. lol at Duran "sneering with contempt at Floyds attempts to hurt him". Nothing like a little hyperbole to prove a point.

 

The only slickster Duran has trouble with at lightweight is Pea. I think Duran would just shade that one at his best form at lightweight.

 

Duckweather is scared of a former flyweight anyone who thinks he would get in the ring with a killa like Duran needs to get their head checked. *****weather would never ever get in the ring with Duran, hell if Mayweather had come up in the 70's 80's he probably wouldnt even go pro.

 

PBF is a stylistic nightmare for Arguello and beats any version of him. I can think of much better match ups for PBF at 130 historically than Arguello.