Yeah, size is more than height but I wouldn't consider him an overall big strong guy, either. People keep saying it, but I don't see it. He looked strong against Hatton. That's all I can really agree with. Collazo may be a bit bulky in the frame, but your perfect example of Mosley shows that your frame doesn't determine your strength. Mosley packs a TON of muscle on his slight frame. Collazo has what I would call a medium frame and doesn't pack much strength on it.... just my opinion. I just don't see the strength outside of him fighting Hatton. I don't think he looked really strong in his win over Rivera.
Ain't no way Mayweather is stronger lower body than Hatton not even close.Hatton has spent years playing football(soccer) and used to kickbox,Mayweather gets his power from leverage and core strength.Mayweather has the north American disease of having skinny ass legs and only looking muscular upper body.
i agree with your post, but one thing you may want to consider is the style issue, floyd may be stronger than hatton, but hatton is a pressure fighter and will try to force floyd into the type of fight he's not comfortable with
Floyd has stronger legs then the usual american fighter. His calves are strong but Hattons main and damn near only superior strength is his legs and that works well against guys that try to push him back. Mayweather has a very strong build and even more so in the part of taking punches to the arms and body. The dude is so in shape. He stays at the same weight all the time. Kind of like bhop. You wil be suprised that hattons punching power will not hurt Floyd anymore then anyone else. He got tagged by harder hitters. :--(
I think you need to take a long hard look at his legs again and refrain from using such a stupid broad stroking analysis. The athletes in our country, especially the football players have very strong legs.
Don't take my comments to disparagingly,it is a generalisation but like all generalisations it does have a ring of truth about it.America is a basketball playing country so will always have more upper body conditioning in their kids growing up whilst Soccer players have much stronger lower body development.Forget about Gridiron,those players are like 70lbs heavier and big all over,you get a gridiron player around the same weight as a soccer player I promise you ,no comparision.As for Floyd having strong legs forget about it I'm talking bout thighs and gluteus muscles not calfs,you don't get raw power and stength from calfs,just my opinion tho.
There are many football players the same size as Soccer players and their legs are developed fine. We do play Futbol in this country you know, I have seen them before lol. On top of this, many basketball players have much greater lower body strength than upper body. Where do you think the explosive jumping comes from? Not to mention, they run for 35 mins a game.
Oh my days atsch people on here honestly think pbf is stronger then hatton:huh "Pause for laughter" :rofl Seriously they must be hanging off mayweathers left nut sorry i feel it coming again :rofl ever heard about a low centre of gravity ? Shorter and same sort of weight should be stronger in clinches look at mike tyson against tall guys or any other short stocky fighter, or rugby player or football player or anyone. If it comes down to strength mayweather will be to close to ricky he needs to keep it at range. Otherwise he may find his ribs getting a bit sore after a few rounds, but as we know mayweather will have on a pair of nike air max the whole fight and look like he is training for the new york matrathon. If he has any sense anyway. At distance mayweather wins if it gets close he is in a whole heap of ****, how many body punches will it take before mayweather starts to slow down ????
Just like Collazo had to run from the power punching hatton...lol. Mayweather is as equally as tough as him. Mayweather despite what you guys love to say is actually a tough guy. It aint like if you hit him with a good shot he is going to run and cry. He is going to hit you back. Like I said floyd has been in and hit by bigger punchers then hatton. More accurate non-lunging ones at that.:scaredas::scaredas::scaredas: