Floyd Mayweather-discussion

I gave Castillo only 2 rounds in the rematch. I'm not a fan of his work. His punches aren't very clean, and they're hard to see.

 

Also remember that Floyd was the challenger and got a very favorable result on the cards despite the champion Castillo being the aggressor who threw more punches, landed more punches, and landed at a higher connect rate than Floyd. The idea that Floyd landed the cleaner, sharper punches is absurd because if he's being so accurate why is he connecting at a lower rate than his opponent?

It was a robbery in the sense that a champion should not have his title taken away by such a wide margin UD in what is a close fight.

 

There was no robbery my friend,just an overall score that was far too wide.Also,Floyd definitely landed cleaner and sharper punches,there is nothing clean or sharp about castillo's fight game.I am a believer in someone having to "take" a champions title.However I still saw what happened pretty damn objectively,and I saw it like this....

Castillo 1 was floyd's most important match.He has never learned more in a ring outside of his own gym.This was the fight where he learned that you don't surrender ground.Don't beat someone on the outside but give up insignificant punches on the inside,because they are technically still scores and show up on compubox.In fact he has become a little bit of a bully since that fight.

By the way,Floyd won this fight 5 to 4.The judges scores were off.Floyd won 4 straight,Castillo won 3 straight,castillio won another but lost a point in the round,9-9 round,floyd won the next but lost a point in the round,9-9 round,they fought to a tie in the 10th,floyd won the 11th and castillo won the 12th.

It wasn't so much controversial as it was a really good fight,and the crowd(Foreman,Lampley,Merchant and Lederman included)was very pro castillo.Apparently the judges weren't scoring the more insignificant tapping bodyblows in the nonstop clinch and maybe didn't like the turning behind mayweather and punching him the back crap,because they had mayweather by 4 and 5 points.They must've scored the even rounds to mayweather,I did not,to me they were even.

But anyway,this was his closest fight ever and he learned nearly all he would ever learn from an opponent again.There will be no manhandling mayweather.There will be no out landing him and there will be no out in-fighting him.He has become remarkably round and complete.Mayweather will only lose when he is out landed,out boxed,out brawled and out muscled.In other words it will take a big bodied master boxer at full middle weight.

 

compubox stats:

castillo mayweather
203 landed 157
506 thrown 448
40% pct 35%

POWER PUNCH
173 landed 66
castillo mayweather
377 thrown 151
46% pct 44

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z0qbXmmM4I[/ame]

 

He fought Castillo in the first fight with a torn rotator cuff too, not that it gets used as an excuse.

 

The thing I overlooked from the castillo interview which is important is that he said floyd hurt him a little bit with a left hook.Floyd hits so much harder now.People love to disrespect his power but a very tough castillo admitted that he was hurt a little bit.Floyd hits so much harder now.People wonder why floyd's opponents have a drop off in output,floyd hits them often and it hurts.He hits the button a lot.He can't push the button with one shot,but with any one shot he jiggles the button,opponents respect it and get more cautious.