I want Mayweather v Martinez in the Autumn

Floyds is an obvious welterweight he has no business playing with middleweights,Martinez is after a payday that's it. Martinez has plenty of good match ups at middleweight to pursue instead of calling out little guys.

 

Yep, I don't think Floyd has any business near middle and Martinez has no business going below middle. Plenty fights out there for both guys in their own weights

 

Floyd can come in at 151 (I'd be interested to know how much he weighed on the night look at least the same size as Cotto) and beat Martinez.

It'd be more competitive than I initially thought (as last nights fight was) but Floyd would put on a positive showing IMO, as he also did last night.

Floyd would beat Sergio via competitive but clear decision I reckon. Martinez is open to the right hand, Floyd still has the sharpest in boxing.

 

:good Good analysis mate

 

He's clearly comfortable around 11 stone. That's historically good weight for Middles, even against guys like Martinez weighing closer to 170.

An imposed weight restriction for Martinez, say 155 would not be ideal but if it gets the fight made, so be it. It's as good a test as Pacqiuao is as this stage IMO.

 

According to the scene he came to the ring weighing 147:shock:

 

Thanks. Floyd is good enough to beat anyone in competitive fights around a certain scale IMO. Will he take his digs more now? It certainly seems he's less prone to coasting in his latest wave of fights (post Marquez) and it's brilliant to see.

I gave Cotto three rounds, but some of the rounds Floyd won because he dug deep and put shots together. I hated his pot shotting phase, he's getting back to what I loved about him at his very best.

A great win? No, but a quality performance against a solid operator. Cotto was never going to beat Floyd, but he applied himself as well as he could with a big deficit in hand and foot speed, and Floyd won the fight wherever it went.

 

I think it will be a bigger test, just don't see the Pac fight being the contest it's been built up to be.............

 

Eh? :huh That's impossible.

I'd love it to be 157. That'd be a perfect weight to tackle Martinez IMO.

 

For this comment we all know the TS knows nothin about boxing

 

yeah floyd said he came in on fight night at 147 but thats obviously bull**** if he hit the scares at 151atsch

 

It is probably not impossible but given how he looked next to Cotto in the ring, I don't particularly believe him

 

Yeah that was my thinking as well. I was being polite but I felt Floyd looked bigger physically.

 

I dunno, you could see he felt Cotto's punches last night when he landed flush and Cotto landed a lot more than Floyd has taken in a while. One of the key factors here is whether Floyd could hurt Martinez and vice versa and I don't think Floyd could hurt Martinez whereas I'm pretty sure Martinez could hurt Floyd at the higher weight.

Martinez is a notoriously slow starter (barring Williams 2) so i could see Fl;oyd racking up a lead but I can see Martinez walking through him around the midway point and breaking him down. it's an intriguing fight but I'm not sure I can see Floyd moving up anymore than he has and I wouldn't want to see another weight drained zombie ala oscar in the Pacquaio fight taking a beat down from a faster boxer over a number of rounds.

 

Floyd has had his fair share of slow starts as well.