Despite his defensive nature, would Mayweather have more KO’s if he didn’t have brittle hands?

Yup

Spent the last 10 years of his career wrapping his hands and career in cotton wool.

 

It's clear that he carried respectable pop, so without hand issues he would've been more PBF and less Money, more spiteful and higher volume, so more KOs

 

No. He would need more courage, to engage his opponents enough to hurt them.

Floyd Mayweather wasn't brave enough to take any risks. Also, he wouldn't travel outside of Las Vegas during his pro boxing career, he feared he might lose if he didn't have his personal referees and judges.

 

Probably more KOs but definitely better fights with less snoozefests. With decent hands, Pretty Boy Floyd would have been around a little longer. In the case of Money Mayweather aka Floyd, the Fraud, all bets are off. He would continue ducking tough competition and zeroing on boxers who are no threat to him. The Mayweather Exhibition Show would last a few years longer.

 

Nah. I don't see it. Vs who? Canelo? For the majority of his brittle hands years he was getting xylocaine in NJ because they allowed it anyway. He smacked the hell out of Shane for every round except the first and second. He hit Gatti so hard, so many times. He even gave Victor Ortiz a good couple of shots. I don't buy that his hands were the reason behind not getting stoppages, I just think he was a natural lightweight getting paid big bucks to fight at 147. How "brittle" could he have been to basically end Shane's career with that beating? Adding in those crazy overhand rights he was whipping off Cotto's dome.

 

you think he was pulling his punches out of fear of hurting his hands?

 

No.

Naoya Inoue has paper hands and he still smokes dudes with frightening power shots.

 

The fact that he was even allowed to inject his hands going into every fight with most around Boxing just ignoring it as non issue & being so accepting of it because he's Floyd Mayweather tells you all you need to know,

I know for certain if this was "Another Said Boxer" there would be some kind of outrage & cheatings allegation's left & right along with citation's of discontinuing such injections due to it's effect of letting that "Said Fighter" punch more often & with more repetition without care due to the substance affect on not feeling pain in the hands.

 

i get all that. do you think without lidocaine, he would pull his punches, or do you think he took it so he wouldnt be distracted by the pain caused by punching full force? cause thats what would be relevant to the question.

 

Yes and no look at Joe Calzaghe believe it or not, he was known as a bit of puncher earlier in his career. Then he started to develop bad hands he became more of a slapper, and didn't possess the power he had earlier in his career.

But for Mayweather it's a little bit different, whilst the bad hands would of effected him. He also moved up in weight and was fighting bigger guys. So obviously his power wasn't going to be as apparent as it was at lighter weight classes.

What people seem to forget is that Mayweather was a bit more of a boxer/puncher at Super Featherweight/Lightweight, he still had his great defence but he fought alot more aggressively see Phillip N'dou, Jesus Chavez, Emmanuel Augustus, Justin Juuko, fights as references.

But saying that all i don't think his KO ratio really would of altered that much.

 

Definitely.

 

Who can say?

It could even be a Mental Factor & we all know how boxers love having any kind of edge going into battle, it could make all the difference in the amount of punches he's thrown to punches he's landed along with who wins that round in the Judges cards by that precise margin,

Simple as that.

 

Yes and if many of his opponents actually tried to win, rather than go 12? He would put them away. He wobbled cotto in that 12th, but didn't press it

Floyd had decent power at 147, but wouldn't go looking for stoppages

 

yes, no way of telling. it just doesnt make sense to me. pulling punches takes more out of you than connecting does, just like missing. it requires your muscles to exert complete control through a full range of motion. like walking on a train track instead of the ground.