Your opinions on Mayweather now?

Not like that is unexpected. We are talking about ESB after all.

 

Cotto took far worse shots from Mosley and wasn't rattled. No-one sensible is claiming that Mayweather has a glass jaw, but I think it's safe to say that it's no better than average.

 

I think thats the key, almost every fighter is going to get hurt at some stage in there career, it how you respond to it that matters.

Floyd for me has a good chin, not granite but decent. However the way he is able to neutralize his opponent follow up attacks when hurt is great, he is also shakes it off pretty quickly.

 

Never felt there was any question marks over Floyd's chin to tell you the truth....His defensive ability was always going to minimize the amount of times it was cracked and I thought he had displayed enough times that even the occasional heavy shot that got through didnt fluster him all that much.

I dont think we will ever get to see him take a past prime touch up like Pea did against Tito...Probably a lot of people who had doubts about Pea's chin before they saw that..

 

No better than average? It's not as though nobody has ever landed power shots on him before, how come here's been buzzed exactly once in 14 years and 41 fights then across 5 weights if it's average?

And actually, Cotto was hurt by a lessen punch from Mosley and it looked likely that he was going to get jumped on and put down, but the ref called a time-out just as Mosley was about to do so to wipe the canvas in his corner.

 

He doesn't get hit very often? I'd say average at 147 btw. At 130-135 (his more natural weight) it could be different.

It's not like there's no precedent for it. Great fighters who haven't fought many people close to them are obviously going to have less tested chins than journeymen.

7:22-7:50. Mosley lands two whopping right hands there. Are you telling me that a) those were lesser shots than those landed on Mayweather and b) that Cotto was troubled worse by them?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_RmFzqX38[/ame]

Or for an even better example, 0:57, 1:09 here:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw7Ss76IoQk[/ame]

 

Mayweather was throwing a left hook with his chin in the air and it seemed to hit him more on the sweet spor than the 1s against Cotto. Mayweather didnt see it coming, Cotto goto brace himself.

As for Mosley not being a puncher, go and watch the Mayorga and Vargas KOs and tell me that

OH and Mayweather has being rocked before, go and watch the Corley fight

 

I never made that claim, though they both took an awful lot of punishment before that, esp. Vargas

 

@ityrmarit - The video's are running on very low quality for me at the moment and are very jumpy so I can't tell. But what does Cotto's punch resistance have to do with it anyway? Unless you are saying that Cotto has an average chin aswell, it's of no relevance. An average chin would not constitute staying upright after a right hand like that from the biggest puncher at the weight and then recovering seconds later.

 

For me, Floyd provided answers to a lot of the questions I had for him. His chin at welterweight was untested. There are few current welterweights with a bigger punch than Mosley's right hand. He took it clean early in the round plus followups and made a tremendous recovery. Late in the round he looked all new.

This display in the second round can also be added to the existing evidence (with Judah and Corley) that suggests Mayweather responds well to adversity.

I thought Mayweather was a great fighter, but not a great welterweight. I still don't think he's a natural welterweight, but he's good enough to hang with anyone there.

He's much more suited to 147 than I thought he was.

 

Nothings changed for me regarding Floyd, excellent at salesmanship/self marketing making the $$$$ & extreamly articulate in front of camera & selling the illusion that he's the main man.

Brilliant boxer no-doubt with the right opponant in front of him. But he's sensibly avoided risking his self annointed position as P4P king by not giving the fans the match-up's that we all wanted so as far as i'am concerned he's good but not great & his dream every night is proberbly praying that Manny Pacquiao will get elected & just go away.

I've always bet against Pacquiao & obviously lost a pile of $$$$ but i'am more than convinced that after watching the Mosley fight & the Hatton fight again today is that Pacman will crush Mayweathers defence & wipe him out, ****-all to do with who's the best boxer ect ect it's just that IMO pac & roach will penetrate Floyds defence with ease with side 2 side in/out waspish strikes, Floyds slowing down & just not as quick at WW & when he misses with a shot you can see Floyds eyes widen in shock & then it's a rapid clam up. If that had been Pac in round 2 then Floyd would have been drowned in a tsunami of violence.

I honestly think Pac will get him & get him in style & the Mayweathers know this. So there's absolutly no way that this fight will ever happen, the Mayweather camp will do & say whatever it takes to make sure it don't (I'll include Bob Arum in this also)

Look to see Floyd move up or as Floyd said RETIRE again for a year or 18 months in the hope Pacquiao will have gone by then, Floyd's 0 is worth ZILLIONS in future earnings & from the Mayweathers business point of view why risk it all on one fight so in reality he's just telling all boxing fans to go **** themselves & as he sez... Legacy don't pay the bills...max reward for minumum risk..... so we all better get used to the fact that as long as floyds around active/semi-retired you're never ever going to see a genuine competitive match-up with a real live opponant......as if he gives a ****....as long as you pay & pay you will......American marketing/salemanship at it's finest........I commend him on his brilliant business acumen:deal

 

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