Floyd Mayweather vs Felix Trinidad@ 154

I wouldn't say Oscar was in prime either but given all the advantages went to him, people need to quit finding excuses for him. Oscar out grew 147 for years already. 154 was perfect for him in his 30s. Floyd wasn't even a full fledge WW at the time and fought Oscar for pay. Oscar put Floyd in a tiny ring bc he knows Floyd's movement will bother him so he crippled him there just on paper, and showed up a middle weight to try to bully floyd in that ring. I don't care if Oscar was out of prime the demands that he had on Floyd was well calculated so no pity on him for me.

 

and as for part promoter? more like banging whores. All elite fighters doesn't fight much and go gamble, party and etc. If Oscar lost bc of it, it is his fault.

 

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Floyd beat Oscar clearly, I'm not excusing it away. It was a good win. But people acting like Floyd would school a prime Oscar because of that fight is simply incorrect. As you said, this was a different, older Oscar. He lacked the physical capability anymore to fight in the same style that he once had, so like you said he did the one other thing he thought he could do to win... which was try to swarm and bully Floyd like a rich man's Margarito, just without the stamina that made such a style work. I never thought a style like that was the best way to approach fighting Floyd or even close. The style Oscar had in the late-90s/early-2000s was much better for fighting somebody like Floyd.

And as I indicated earlier, the part-time promoter business didn't help either. I don't think Floyd's inactivity has helped him either. He doesn't look quite as good as he once did by any means, and if people want to one day blame a subpar Floyd performance or a loss on it, I'll accept it as a valid reason for his decline. I don't pity Oscar, he's a very rich man and had a great career. But all the advantages he brought into the ring (smaller ring, size, etc) were in my view far outweighed by the other factors I've brought up. Trying to tinker with the ring size and the weight you show up at don't come close to meaning as much in a fight as what your style and age/physical capabilities are. That's what I'm trying to say here.

 

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I do think Oscar in Prime will be a much tougher fight for Floyd but we will never know in a normal ring where Floyd can use his legs vs in prime but smaller Oscar who knows what will happen.