Mayweather and Alvarez Gameplans According to THEM or THEIR CAMPS

If Floyd is active, it keeps Canelo guessing and doesn't allow him to commit. He's not as high-volume pressure fighter, he's a patient boxer-puncher. Floyd sticking his jab to the body and throwing a right upstairs, hooking off the jab, throwing a jab upstairs and then a straight right to the body, etc. amid constant feinting will make Canelo hesitant.

Hopkins goes about his work a different way, taking away the punching angle laterally and smothering on the inside more frequently.

The DLH fight is a good template, I think when Sr. says active, he doesn't mean much more active than that, just constantly jabbing and mixing up the shots, not waiting for a perfect counter to present itself round after round.

 

To be fair that's down to the stupid open scoring in that fight. It's also a bit hypocritical considering Mayweather is more focused on the D than any fighter I know, he never goes looking for a KO - he alwyas plays it safe so with open scoring you cna bet he'd take his foot off the gas more often down the straight. There's no open scoring here so Canelo won't fight the same way...he knows if it's a close fight he will have to go for broke as Mayweather will likely get the benefit of the doubt

 

Floyd - Lots of movement, and use your timing and judgement, of distance to get off 1st.
I'd rely solely on single shots, with the occasional 1,2's. I wouldn't bother with combos as alvarez will counter them.
But just keep moving, out of range all the time, then soon as alvarez is range, throw a single hard shot and move.

 

So basically Floyd doesn't have to change anything from his usual style - as much movement as possible, use that excellent jab of his, and the odd 1-2 when Alvarez leaves himself open - basically the same game plan he used for Guerrero.

Alvarez will need to cut off the ring to stand a chance, get Floyd near the ropes. If he does that he'll do better than Cotto as he has faster hands and more power but the question is whether he can back Mayweather up often enough.

Alvarez will certainly need to be more mobile than he was against Trout though - he needs to land a big punch on Mayweather early on I think

 

i think he should try to throw with Mayweather.

I thought Guerrer had some success by countering, and throwing with mayweather, and landed some decent shots.

Alvarez will be able to do that, but land much harder shots.

 

yer i think its bull**** personally.. i feel floyd fights at his walk around weight... he wont drain himself or push himself to make a weightclass to gain an advantage on his opponents, he will just fight at his natural weight class

though coming in at 152 against cotto does say alot

 

Mayweathers plan is to weight drain, run, duck, run some mo, slap, repeat.

 

That's been tried countless times and it results in the fighter getting fatigued and frustrated because Floyd takes the steam off of those punches. Unless you are willing to just say fvck it and kidney punch Floyd all day, it's going to be tough as hell to break down his body. I don't know if Canelo is strong enough to make his punches to the body hurt, keeping in mind that any one punch likely loses a large percentage of impact with Floyd's defense.

 

Floyd eats **** food all the time while training for a fight.

 

That's what he want you to see on 24/7 - don't be so naive! It's just unbelievable how much bull**** PR *****s will swallow up

 

Not sure what this has to do with anything? He weighed in less than 147 for that fight, so not sure what you're getting at...but moreso than that, I have no idea what the **** this has to do with this fight?

 

It's relevant to what was said earlier, about Sr saying he had to eat a lot to stay at 147 - in other words I think he's implying that Floyd is not as small as the Floyd camp like to portray him...

 

LOL...in 16 years of fighting, 46 fights, and you come up with two guys that you feel Floyd should have fought to justify your blanket statements of ******ation. Think about that for a second...

 

PBF's gameplan will revolve around using movement to dictate distance and to get off first and be gone. He will try to fight Canelo like he did Chico when he put on the best exhibition of boxing of this era. If he can box like that for a full 12 rounds Canelo has no chance.:deal

 

this fight will be similar to nonito rigo except that nonito was a proven ko puncher in his division whereas canelito is not.

nonito also had the footwork, workrate and stamina to put up a competitive fight.

alvarez does not have the footwork, wont be able to close the distance and will be getting tagged at a 50+percent clip after the fifth round.