Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Lorenzo Aragón, July 31st 1996

No no, starting to get tangled, you could see that his legs were starting to cross as he was on the backfoot after Aragon charges at him coming of the ropes.

This isn't as clear cut as people make it out to be, you can see JUST AT the 2:07-2:06 moment that his legs were starting to cross because he needed leverage/body positioning to generate power onto the left hook just before the right hand landed, milliseconds before.

You can also see that the punch was more a grazing punch than a flush one, it mostly scraped the bottom of the headgear above the shoulder and most of the force of said punch was minimized as the punch for the most part rolled off as you can see. It definitely was not a punch that landed flush, I implore you to take a closer look. He threw a left hook, he tried to roll off the right hand but was already kind of off balance and that's why that right hand managed to get him down as he was already not in a fighting stance due to him moving backwards at such a pace, like I said became off balance as a result.

I'm really not trying to play devil's advocate, troll or whatever. Just saying what I'm honestly seeing.

It's definitely not clear cut, well at least to me.

I want Pimp, Michigan and Bballchump to take a closer look.

He definitely was never dropped in the pro ranks, that much is very very obvious.

 

It's really a shame we can't get a clearer video of this, it's really hard to see where the punch really landed. Hard to see too clearly.

 

Floyd make the mistake of squaring his stance as he was shifting back from southpaw to orthodox while thowing his counter left. Aragon clipped him with the right at that precise moment and the impact caused Floyd to go over. It's not a particularly hard kd, as Floyd was off balance more than anything, but FMJ did go down on the end of a punch that landed while he wasn't particularly well balanced. When that happens, we generally refer to it as being a knockdown.

 

A 1996 Olympic bout is causing a great deal of controversy!!

 

Oh, I would say for sure that Aragon's shot got Floyd's attention and would have anyway had he stayed upright. That said, I have to wonder it it would have had a similar affect as Judah's famous counter hook had Floyd been in the same postion (leaning forward, chin slightly raised but not square) that he was against Zab. Likewise, I wonder how the '96 version of Floyd reacts if he gets caught by that counter right hook when completely squared up.

Both of them were among the better shots that Floyd shipped during his career in boxing, though.