does floyd need a tune-up b4 pac?

He is 30+, has had 40+ fights & is a gym rat, always in shape.

No tune-up required.

 

Can someone remind me what sparring is for?

 

no tune up straight to pac in november, he is already wasting a lot of time, if he wants a tune up fight berto in june/july pac in november/december

 

too risky. what if he gets injured, hurts his hands, or something like that? Floyd is the kind of fighter that needs a lot of R&R between fights.

 

floyd will be wasting time again. he can whip poochiao's ass, tune-up or not so what is the hold-up?

 

Sparring is never really quite the same at shaking off ring rust

 

cotto in the summer pac in november

 

Why is that then9

 

Just another excuse to delay the Pac fight. If he takes a tuneup he should be massacred in the media. He said he will only fight once a year anyway, so what the **** use will a tuneup be if he fights Pac in 2012?

 

you work on specific things in sparing plus no one floyd could spar comes close to pac

 

If he doesn't fight before November-ish...then yeah, I wouldn't advise him to take on a very active Pacquiao after a year and a half-ish out.

 

Floyd will need a tune up when he returns to the ring. He didn't fight for more than a year now so he needs to remove his ring rust. The problem is, he fights once a year only. He will end up fighting tune up fights only (to remove ring rust) for the remainder of this fights until he retires.

 

+1

emmanuel is already fighting in May, so we know he can't fight as soon as July.

Nothing wrong with a tuneup for FLoyd as long as he doesn't plan to do his once a year **** for 2011.

Floyd becoming an "international playboy".

Floyd a G.

 

So who is he going to get for a tune up that would be close to pac?

Right so Floyd is a gym rat who only manages to fight once a year because of his brittle hands, but people say it'd be beneficial for him to have a fight in the summer in order to prepare for one in November?

Floyd fights one a year for a reason - to suggest he'd be better suddenly trying to fight twice in 6 months is ridiculous to me.


If sparring (boxing, in a ring, against an opponent) is not good for shaking ring rust then surely every fighter must suffer from ring rust. By the time their fight comes around?They have a fight and then don't get back in the ring for another 5-10 months?

How long does ring rust take to occur exactly?

A question for Floyd fans - if you're saying that ring rust is a big deal, and Mayweather will need a tuneup in order not to have ring rust against Manny in a potential November fight, are you acknowledging that Mosley was suffering from ring rust in his fight against Floyd?