But floyd trew more punch than pac in his fight against him. He's a volume puncher, you pac**** are stupid ahah
I was thinking of this matchup as well while I was watching 1st take. Stephen A mentioned Pernell Whitaker like 3 times during the broadcast as a boxer who's defensive style he appreciated along with Mayweather's. IMO Pernell would do what Zab was doing to Mayweather for the first 5 rounds except SweatPea wont gas out and mentally fall apart.
50/50 match. One of the greatest fights you can make between ATG technicians. Wouldn't mind seeing either of these guys against Benny Leonard also. For those that think it would be a snoozefest, I can understand that position. But i would love to have seen it.
Both pretty close overall in defense and offense. Floyd has more consistent pop in his shots. Whitaker could do more damage with single left hands, do to timing or loading up on it or whatever. He unified the LW titles on a single left hand in the 1st round against Nazario, basically ended the Lomeli fight with one left hand, rocked Chavez briefly in the 8th round of their fight, and turned the Hurtado fight around with one left hand, and then almost killed him with the follow up lefts while Mercante Jr. stood there and watched. I guess Mercante Jr. can be really active when it comes to helping fighters "suck it up" and deliberately ignoring the requests of the chief second, but just stands there when guys almost get killed with punches. Whitaker had the superior jab as his right jab was simply brilliant, although Floyd's jab is excellent too, as he has the best jab to the body I have ever seen. Floyd's left hook is better than Whitaker's right hook IMO. Floyd's straight right is better overall in effectiveness than Whitaker's straight left. Whitaker has the edge in workrate and combinations. They are both excellent body-punchers. I give Whitaker the slight edge due to him letting his hands go more and how frequently he contorted his body to get the angles on body punches. There is one instance early in the 8th round against Hatton that I've seen probably 1,000 times because it's so great to watch, when Floyd pivots his body to get the angles on these bodyshots against Hatton (during the part when Manny Steward says Ricky is bringing out the best out of Floyd). He then again uses the jab to the body to set up a right to Ricky's head. Whitaker did this quite often. He got these weird angles due to his body movements and how he got low. Unorthodox but not necessarily technically unsound either, it would give him angles for offense and also for defense. Anyway, on offense they are pretty close as they both have areas in which they were better at. Whitaker had an edge on defense. I doubt anyone would get hurt since they were defensive masters and the chances of Whitaker landing a shot on Floyd like he did against Nazario or Lomeli is very slim. I think Whitaker's pesky jab and superior workrate would be the difference in a close decision. 7-5
Good post. I could see Floyd edging it 7-5 as well but I'd lean towards sweet pea. The people suggesting a shutout on either side are just....ya.