Floyd Keeps Saying There's no "Blueprint" to beat him...

Absolultely, but we shouldn't have affirmative action for guys with so few fights and treat them as if they had 140 fights. Experience and longevity are major categories. They still may be "great" but no purist wants to hear Ray Leonard compared to Ray Robinson.

 

It's the era of immediate gratification, man. I'd bet that people who prefer watching Hopkins to Tyson are more patient by nature. Often older and more intellectually inclined too.

 

Thanks.

Let's keep in mind that Freddie is not hiding anything and in fact most of the juice from the first part of the video came right from his mouth in interviews. While his destruction of Oscar, Ricky, and Miguel... are mitigated by those factors and more, Clottey is a different story. Roach is doing what any manager would do. Though I'm not big on his treatment of Shane, he did choose to fight only slightly, seemingly weaker man in Cotto for bundles of money. Manny deserves full credit for that win.

As for Floyd, well, if he continues to fight guys the caliber of Shane and win, I'll be on the bandwagon. I am not convinced that his prior resume made him anything near a world-beater -irregardless of how he "looked" and irregardless of hydration differences.