Comparing the resumes of Mayweather and Whitaker

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Asterion, Dec 6, 2007.


  1. Illmatic

    Illmatic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    great fighters are shitted on during their careers,so they continue their careers too long and end up fighting to long and looking terrible.

    does anyone remember how lennox lewis was treated? or prime rjj? or how about ali?
     
  2. 2ironmt

    2ironmt Boxing Addict Full Member

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    hopkins is 6'1 and has a lot of advantages on tito and hoya and was as prime as hopkins was to ever get even if he was 36 (vs tito). sweat pea was a small guy.
     
  3. Asterion

    Asterion Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Mayweather defeated Hatton, so I checked this thread again.....



     
  4. Amsterdam

    Amsterdam Boris Christoff Full Member

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    And in turn, showed more vulnerabilities to pressure and rough fighters. Whitaker is a league above him in every area, save for handspeed and power.

    Give - it - up.
     
  5. Asterion

    Asterion Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I wasn't making any opinion. I haven't said that Mayweather > Whitaker.

    I think Whitaker is a Top15 P4P of all time. Mayweather isn't. :D
     
  6. AlonzoGreene

    AlonzoGreene Active Member Full Member

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    Are you serious? Mayweather dominated Hatton in a Ricky Hatton style of fight. If anything thing Mayweather showed how versatile he is. I doubt how you appear vulnerable when an inside fighter or brawler has you at a close distance the entire fight only to get knocked out without landing one good punch.
     
  7. G_RapPBF

    G_RapPBF Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lmao. :lol: :lol:

    And how'd he do that moron? By winning every round but 1? By limiting Hatton to landing an average of 5 punches per round?

    Save handspeed, power and defense. You are right every area that doesnt matter. :nut
     
  8. Amsterdam

    Amsterdam Boris Christoff Full Member

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    By allowing Hatton to get close far too much, by taking 10 rounds to put him away and by taking 5 rounds just to adjust to a 1 dimensional, overrated nothing that any other recent ATG's would have destroyed inside 4 with no trouble.

    He looked uncomfortable the entire fight, allowed Hatton to control the pace for the first half and allowed it to become a wrestling match instead of opening up a little more early with the 1-2 and keeping proper distance off the jab, like Whitaker would have done. But the pressure and general fear of retaliation prevented that, as well as his seemingly fading speed and timing and we had to sit through 5 rounds of a Hatton fight instead of Floyd fighting his fight.

    Do you think Whitaker, even at 147, would let Hatton control the pace even though ineffective?

    Hell no, he'd have been tearing him up with combinations and Hatton would have been landing even less with Whitaker in an offensive mindset.
     
  9. Amsterdam

    Amsterdam Boris Christoff Full Member

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    But you rank Mayweather as high as 23, this is suspect Asterion, especially when your Jones ranking was lower.

    It's very clear that your goal with this thread is to open up the prospect that Mayweather can eclipse Whitaker with just a few more wins, when the competition around is still not the competition that Sweet Pea faced.
     
  10. G_RapPBF

    G_RapPBF Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lmao allowing Hatton to get close far too much? Boy oh boy I can tell your knowledge of boxing his top notch. Floyd let Hatton get close because he knew Hatton went in with a poor defense, so logically he could just stay on the outside and potshot as hatton came in. And when hatton did get close and try and wrestle he'd rough Hatton up with elbows and uppercuts. As to why Hatton had the big ass gash over his eye in the 4th round and floyld was untouched. Please dumbass, tell us what ATG would have hatton out in the 4th round, a legit 140 or 147 pounder. If your dumbass says Whittaker then you just confirmed your less then stellar knowledge of anything related to boxing. Whittaker had onyl 17 ko's his whole career, he ****ing lost to Ramirez his first title fight. Hattons was dropped only once and never knocked out. And Floyd Mayweather dropped his ass in the tenth and by all rights could have had the fight called in the 8th.

    :lol: :lol: Floyd allowed Hatton to get inside jackass. Thats was the plan. Just because you didnt think Floyd would win fighting a brawlers game doesnt mean he didnt control the entire fight. Hatton is coming forward no matter what, no amount of running around the ring is gonna stop that, Floyd by pot shotting opened Hatton up to the jab later in the 7th and the 8th rounds, Hatton wasnt simply perceptable to the jab straight off the get go, this is called a game plan and fighting a logical scientifical fight.

    Floyd never looked uncomfortable, I've seen the fight atleast 10 times fully, and the more I watch the more you see that Floyd assumed complete control over the fight in the 4th. Hatton made a rally in the 5th, but that was the only round you could logically give to him, he simply landed single digit punches the whole fight. Its funny that you think Whittaker decisioning hatton (no way he knockes him out, Whittaker didnt knock out nobody) is better then Floyd mastering hatton defensively then knocking his ass out, Silly child.

    As I already posted on this website, defensively, no fighter, not Whitaker, not even Roy Jones Jr comes close to Floyd defensively.
     
  11. 196osh

    196osh Mendes Bros. Full Member

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    Can anybody say boxrec warrior :yep
     
  12. teeto

    teeto Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    :lol: :lol: :lol: :good
     
  13. G_RapPBF

    G_RapPBF Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Looky the *** follows me to another Floyd thread. Tell me, what makes losing a controversial decision to someone who got dropped by Camacho any worse then better then losing a decision to someone who got dropped by Camach lol?
     
  14. 196osh

    196osh Mendes Bros. Full Member

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    :lol: You can try harder than that fanboy.


    Contoversial? WTF fight were u watching? How did you score it?
     
  15. G_RapPBF

    G_RapPBF Well-Known Member Full Member

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    :lol: mother****er how did you score it? mother****ers gonna ask me how I scored a fight from the 80's I saw maybe once on classic and you dont throw out your score first? And yes it was contraversial, you know how to use google dont you?