A technical breakdown of Floyd 'Money' Mayweather - What are his weaknesses?

i like a lot of what KO KIDD and MUGAHLMIRZA said. i also agree with VecArrow a lot.but like KO and Mug said, he has a slow start where he adapts to a fighter. granted, the rounds are still competitive, but you can tell when floyd makes the necessary adjustment. just fight plan A for the first few rounds, switch to plan B once he makes the adjustments, and then hit him with plan A and C in the late rthird of the round. that would be my strategy. something like:
1-4: box, feint, use movement, throw enough combinations to steal the rounds without getting countered. he will be ad******g from his usual defensive counterpunching self to a more aggressive fighter.
5-8: start using rough house tactics and try bullying him around if he doesn't have a size advantage. this keeps him on the defensive, and allows you to steal rounds with activity as well as forces him to make another adjustment. and keep the fight on the inside to prevent him from stealing rounds with clean punching.
9-12: out work him to leave an impression on the judges. throw small simple combinations with a chance of landing just one even if it's not significant just to score points and retreat before floyd can counter. this takes him out of his defensive mode as he has to become the aggressor to keep from losing rounds

Bottom Line is Floyd is a reactive fighter, so if you are smart, you can dictate his reactions. whether or not you can capitalize is a different story.

 

great point! he does do that a lot. and he often drops his hands to his waist when he does it. quick and smart enough to get away with it though.

 

Floyd doesn't have many weaknesses.....he's got problems with southpaws and pressure but has all the tools to combat those trouble areas.

 

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Not believeing in himself enough. He is afraid to take meaningful challenges. Probably has to do with his childhood. Straight right hands because he keeps his left pretty low. Not too many weaknesses, no

 

Southpaws give trouble to anyone. Even other southpaws like manny think it's hard to fight southpaws.

Floyd's weakness is that he's not aggressive enough in the first two rounds. He's too busy thinking and studying his opponents. Zab Judah knocked him down with a counter right hook in the 2nd round. Hatton knocked him off balance to the ropes with a jab in the 1st or 2nd round. We all saw what Mosley did in the 2nd round. It takes him some time to figure out his the patterns and signals of his opponents punches, and the angles they'll be coming at.

Whenever he fights pac, I think he'll start faster than usual. Use the jab to control manny and hit him hard with some right hands. manny is very vulnerable to the right hand, even moar than the average southpaw, so Floyd is going to be able to land it the moment the opening bell is done ringing. All this being possible by virtue of having the best right hand in the sport.

His other weakness is that he'll feel embarrassed after getting hit clean, so he comes forward doing nothing. Look at what he did whenever Judah caught him clean. It's the same reason Mosley was able to buckle his knees. He gets caught with the first right hand and felt humiliated, so he pushes forward then bam that 2nd right hand. He doesn't like to be hit and feels insulted by it.

Last up are his sensitive hands. This is why he doesn't trade shots or throw combos. He has to be selective about his punches in order to protect his hands. Floyd can only bang for a limited amount of time. On the flip side, this is also why he's developed into a defense specialist. Lots of fighters will react with a flurry right away after being hit, but Floyd will use his defense to think and then retaliate. If he's throwing a reaction flurry the shots won't be as clean which puts them hands at risk.

 

The first pic is one of the gayest smiles I've ever seen in my life. If another guy smiled at me like that I would run away. To conclude my post, where the hell is Ellerbe's left arm in the two pics below the first one? Do I even want to know?

Edit: I meant to say where is his left arm in the second pic and where is his right arm in the third pic.

 

Yep, the hands down is also a good call. If I was training a fighter to fight him, one of the things I'd have them do is jump him THE INSTANT he goes onto his toes like that. It's not a defensive position whatsoever and he's vulnerable when he does it. Now, actually executing that strategy on the spot is quite another thing from discussing it. No matter what you'd need a special fighter to defeat Floyd, so I'm just taking that point for granted.

 

He only goes into that stance after he's timed them perfectly. It's risky, so he can't be stupid about it. Whoever reacts to that is giving Floyd free points via counters.

 

floyd knows when he's vulnerable, that's why he's all the way on his toes when he throws that right. just in case his opponent jumps he can just step to the side and catch him with a hook or a cross. another moment he is vulnerable is when he throws his jab to the body. you have to time the counter right over the top perfectly, or else he lands the jab and then comes up with a straight right. but if you step into that jab as soon as he throws it, you can nail him with a clean shot. of course, easier said than done.

 

Good observations Leon:good****ing spot on.

When he gets tagged he does press forward not really doing much which is pretty risky.

 

Wtf is up with the cowboy outfit? He looks like Andy from toy story.

 

Brilliant.

 

Vulnerable to the jab, suspect chin

 

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