Come on. Did you really watch that fight? Hell even hbo commintators thought Floyd won the 8th round where they show combination that Floyd landed on Judah in the replay of the exact 8th round and these are the same comminators that hate Mayweather.
A draw? If it was not for the low blow, Zab would have been KO'ed. PBF was breaking him down and the low blow helped Zab recuperate and it weakened PBF.
I don't remember my exact score for this one since Yoel vs. Roger broke out and disrupted the proceedings. But after the first four, I remember it being pretty much all Floyd. Zab definitely should have been given credit for that KD though.
But they clearly hate zab more. Merchant cant stand that cat. Watch round 8. Floyd did nothing after that flurry. You can at least make a case for it. It was very close. They were all over floyds dick in that fight compared to zab.
Round 11 and round 3 were of the closer variety, Ill concede it. But in BOTH rounds, Floyd landed more punches, both in jabs and powershots. He gets the scoring done. And round 8 isn't even a swing round. Zab didn't jab **** off, the jabs have to land and score to be effective. Floyd landed all the shots in that round, Zab did ****. He was being bullied around the ring, and Floyd scores points for defense as he deflected most of what came his way.
If you follow Floyd and Mercent on interviews you should know that Larry hates Mayweather with a passion. After Mayweather tko Mitchell, Larry bashes Mayweather for not fighting Judah.
Larry knows a mismatch when he sees one. Mitchell had no business being at 147 and had one good leg at that point.
The only round that that was a real close one that could give it to Judah is the 11th. But rounds 8, 3 were not close rounds at all.
Yeah merchant hates floyd not denying it but he hates zab 100x more. He will never give him the props he deserves. Hes a black kid from the ghetto whose made millions go figure.
It's not cause of the Mitchell fight that Larry bashes Floyd. It was a Judah fight that Larry wants Floyd to fight but Floyd wouldn't budge cause he wanted 60/40 in his favor.
How can you say it is not a close round. Watch that round again. Zab could land at will and had the quicker hand speed while floyd didn't know what to do but throw left hooks that missed everytime. Floyd backed up and zab took him. Floyd had tasted his power by this point iirc.
Closer round than the 8th, Ray. I still gave it to Mayweather comfortably. You'd have to be smoking something to think Judah topped May in the 8th.
You might confuse Larry to Jim Gray cause Gray hates Judah. In the Mayweather vs Judah fight, Larry was defending Judah saying "lets give Judah a benefit of the doubt that he's fighting better in this fight then the Baldimor fight in which he redeem himself."