Weaknesses of shoulder roll.

Open to the straight left
Also a looping overhand right

 

Ask Berto and Broner

The shoulder role is a full body maneuver and is very hard to perfect...

A good stiff jab will get through it as well...

 

I really don't see him being troubled too much by southpaws to be honest. He's beaten them all clearly.

 

The talk about him having trouble with Southpaws is overblown. His most competitive fights were against guys who could effectively apply consistent pressure. I can't say there any real weaknesses in Floyd's defense, because his mind and his eyes play such a big role. It's hard to hit with the same punch clean twice, and it's hard to hit him clean with combinations. However, if you can drive him against the ropes get off a lot of punches, you can steal rounds from him.

 

He's getting older, obvious he'll have a hard time on the rope now. Look at how he performed on the rope earlier in his career and tell me he has a hard time there.

 

It's not that he has a hard time on the ropes, it's that you can steal rounds by getting off a lot of punches while he's on the ropes. Those punches won't land clean, but they have an impression on the judges.

 

I would say in the sequences when Floyd's opponent is flurrying with punches against the shoulder roll, his opponent get more credit because the shoulder roll limits his offense a lot.

 

Plus he's fighting much bigger guys on the ropes, in his 130-140 days, he held every single advantage on the ropes so was happy to bring people onto the ropes, now it's not a good idea at all, as we saw in the MM1 fight.

 

he or she must also have the endurance of a marathon runner and the need to grab and hug when cornered.

 

Why comment if you're not going to realistically answer :huh

The left hook is a great weapon vs. the shoulder roll.

 

^This. I don't know where this myth was started, but Marcos Maidana gave him more trouble than any southpaw ever did. Also, he doesn't really use the shoulder roll much at all against southpaws.