What style is needed to beat floyd?

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  1. bkamins

    bkamins Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I dunno. Ninja?
     
  2. techks

    techks ATG list Killah! Full Member

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    :think
     
  3. bkamins

    bkamins Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You're talking about Corrie Sander aren't you. I don't think he could get down to that weight. Maybe on the subway diet. A friend of mine lost 80 pounds. Then he gained it all back and had a heart attack.
     
  4. ocelot

    ocelot Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    A tall, fast, ring-smart, highly-skilled WW with stamina and a high punch output. SRR, SRL....basically anyone named Sugar except Shane Mosley, unfortunately.
     
  5. HENDO

    HENDO Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    A tall slick fighter with a good jab. A guy like Tommy Hearns, SRL, SRR, Vernon Forrest, etc...

    Floyd has never fought a guy like this, and honestly, while there aren't any in or around his weight class, he did have an opportunity to fight Vivian Harris, and for a time was seen as ducking him, until of course Harris lost, and Floyd was like, "who's Vivian Harris?"
     
  6. kickbxn5

    kickbxn5 Active Member Full Member

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    Someone with a good jab will give Floyd hell. Look what Oscar did until he STOPPED throwing the jab.
     
  7. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    Fast hands to hit him. Fast feet to cut off the ring. Stamina to do that for 12. Great chin.

    Hatton was doing good but he didnt have the chin.

    Castillo could cut off the ring and walk through Floyds power shots but he just was missing something
     
  8. smitty_son408

    smitty_son408 J ust E njoy T his S hit Full Member

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    You think Vivian Harris would have been competitive with Floyd?
     
  9. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    Oh and a body attack. Slow him down. Oscar and Castillo did this well
     
  10. combination of zab judah and bhop.
     
  11. tojikiston

    tojikiston Contender Full Member

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    There you go!!!

    I might add: Shane, Margo, Williams and Pac can do exactly what Castillo have done once, but more convincingly and pretty decently!!!
    :good:hi::hi:
     
  12. drkjck

    drkjck Active Member Full Member

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    and also a boxer who can throw 1200 punches
     
  13. bknystl

    bknystl Active Member Full Member

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    All I keep seeing ppl write is pressure, pressure, pressure. I mean honestly, isn't that what almost EVERYONE who fights him says they're gonna do and it doesn't work when they try. I think pressure is the one thing we know DOESN'T work on Floyd.

    I think for someone to have a chance at beating him, aside from having the phyiscal attributes. (speed, stam, etc..) they need to be smart and disciplined in the ring like he is. And turn it on and off in spurts and switch things up. No one style is going to beat this guy. They're going to have to think in the ring.
     
  14. HENDO

    HENDO Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Styles make fight, but we'll never know.

    Vivian dropped the ball.
     
  15. ripcity

    ripcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    NO and Yes in that order.