Is on a decline or his rib injury an unfortunated incident? Personally I think he have been slightly declining over the years. He used to be very aggressive fight but when he moved up to 147 his punch output have dropped tremenously. Maybe is just bc he wants to play it safe against bigger guys.
This is the sort of injury that can occur when you're training rigourously. If anything it may be a sign that he's coming back into high intensity training after a long lay off. It doesn't say anything about decline.
You make a great point man; but I don't really accept that reason. The ****en guy is supposed to be a professional and he gets payed millions to just train and fight and he totally ****ed that up. I say Marquez just fights someone else and forgets about Floyd. I think at this point Floyd needs Marquez more then Marquez needs Floyd. Floyd should retire again. He is done.
Take a look across the sporting world, a guy like Tom Brady who is a professional, in peak physical health for his position goes down to an injury. Tearing cartilidge is darn easy to do - regardless of being paid millions, Floyd can't tell his body not to get damaged, especially when he's coming back into high intensity training following a year where sure, he probably kept in shape but he wasn't in fight training.
Floyds body and been breaking down steadily for years now. How long has floyd been in boxing? A very long time. The shoulder roll technique does not help his limbs either. Continual shots on the elbow joints and wrists is not good for anyone, which is basically what mayweather has been doing for 15+ years. I still think the reason he took so much time off was to 'let his body heal', mayweather said as much in one of his roundtable interviews. Plus theres a different floyd im seeing, no trash to his opponent for once. His problem is that hes been undefeated for so long psycologically being defeated would be unbearable for him.
Wow... I'm quite often in the Floyd bashing que, but the guy's not fought since 2007. From what I've seen of his training camps, they're utterly brutal. Given he hasn't trained for a fight in a couple of years I am not at all surprised to hear that he injured himself training and whilst the cynic in me does question the ticket sales, it's perfectly understandable that the rigors of a training camp have caused an injury.
self proclaimed greatest boxer..greatest defensive boxer...etc etc... tsk tsk tsk maybe he did not run during sparring:|:|
