Do You Believe Mayweather: "I Could Have Made The Fight Boring"

The *******s have taken over the asylum.

This was similar to the Mosley fight in that Floyd may have underestimated his opponent early on and after getting caught had to adjust. Against Mosley he turned it into a "boring" shut out of Mosley. He could have done the same against Cotto, but knew he could still win a little less decisively with some more excitement.

 

Did Mayweather not do the same things vs Mosley and Ortiz the last 2 fights? With the difference of Cotto being at 154 and holding 10ounce gloves.

 

I believe the bold is how he would have fought for many more rounds, had he not been wary of Cotto's pressure and been cornered from time to time throughout.

Again, I'm astounded that a majority of voters picked the option that he could have made it easy, when he's been cornered by Oscar, Ortiz, Castillo, Hatton, Chavez, and Augustus. It's simply how he prefers to deal with conventional pressure fighters.

 

LMAO @ 10oz gloves, I guess that would have only benefited Floyd right. Every Floyd fan, including himself too, expected a easy walk through Cotto, had he done that his fans would have been more than exited. Nobody had even been talking about his "boring" performances since Mosley, and since when did Floyd become so adamant to constructive criticism???

 

The 12th round doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know.

Cotto fades. That's not news. The 12th round would have been the same even if Cotto was up on the scorecards.

 

Similar to how he said he was going to walk Mosley down before the fight that people thought was bull****, he said he was going to go toe to toe with Cotto in the build up, even requesting smaller gloves that was turned down.

Yet when he does go toe to toe it's because Cotto made him fight that way.:huh

Someone said it best yesterday when they said when Mayweather fights too defensively people call him out on being boring yet when he says he's coming to go toe to toe and does just that people claim he's declining as he's getting hit more often.

 

Of course, Watch rounds 10 11 and especially 12 if u think otherwise

 

Man, Cotto fades every fight.

All of his opponents look good in the late rounds if it goes that far.

****, even Margarito was coming on real hard in the rematch.

The late rounds tell us NOTHING.

 

good point

 

So wait, a guy who, in an interview, said that he needs to look out for his health before anything else, took more punishment on purpose to please his fans. That makes a lot of ****ing sense. *****s are ****ing ******s.

 

How did he take punishment on purpose, he can fight on the inside or outside, some shots are going to get through it's a combat sport.

Cotto is a World class performer, they both put on a great fight.

 

no fighter is gonan purposely get beat up (even though he won) and roughed up for entertainment especially flloyd. That is his BS excuse if you believe it your nuts

 

The point is that Mayweather put a clear focus on movement that round. Im not even talking about the punches Mayweather landed or threw but the clear focus on not getting stuck on the ropes. Mayweather did not use that type off effort or focus the whole fight on movement.

If he did sure there would be times when Cotto would still have him trapped and still get him on the ropes but you would see an effort for Mayweather to try and excape. There was no visible effort from Mayweather to try and escape the ropes and bring it to the center of the ring.

Matter of fact the majority of the times when Mayweather got out of the ropes wasn't by movement but by landing his own punch and Cotto back up. He got Cotto off him plenty of times with right hooks and uppercuts. When Cotto had him pinned down was when he wasn't able to land those shot cleanly.

 

cotto's pressure and ability to neutralize mayweather is what compelled mayweather to do more than just be slick in there, and to actually dig down and war with cotto, so not, had he attempted to make the fight boring and cotto boxed the same fight, people would be hotly debating the outcome of the fight, meaning there would have been an argument for floyd losing the fight based on inactivity, and cotto's pressue and success.

 

Did you read the thread title? Have you seen the poll options? What else does "I could have made it easier" mean? Cuz all I can get from that is, "I could have taken less punishment and made a boring fight, but I'm a warrior so I took on unnecessary risks to give fans what they want." Does that sound like Mayweather to you?