If Floyd didn't break his hands in almost all his fights, KO's would be common

No. Hr hits like a lightweight. Not a power puncher or combo puncher

 

Tremendous punching power at 130 (but what else would you expect from someone who wins world titles at 154 and shuts his much larger opponents down), very good power between 135-140, good power at 147, and below average power at 154, although not featherfisted.

He wouldn't be getting as many knockouts as you say he would, but nonetheless I would say he would be scoring knock downs more often then not. His accuracy would see him getting knock downs more so than his power at 147.

 

He didn't break his hand against Canelo, or even Guerrero.

http://www.mlive.com/mayweather/index.ssf/2013/05/report_x-rays_reveal_floyd_may.html

Stop making stuff up to suit your agenda. Yes he breaks his hands, but nowhere near as much as you make it out to be.

 

Agreed. He doesnt break his hands that much. But he hurts his hands a lot. Even if they dont break, they are always hurt. Even after the Guerrero fight his hand was swollen and battered. He just has terrible hands.

That and along with the fact that he has to keep them healthy with him fighting twice a year now, is probably why he doesnt use as much offense. I dont know about you guys but Mosley/Ortiz/Cotto were fights where he was completely offensive minded. And his PPV numbers reflected that. He was throwing Combos and really hard shots.

Right now, he has to insure that his hands hold up for his deal, especially since he doesn't have that whole year for recovery now.

 

donaire breaks his hands too often if i remember

 

Floyd fights a lot more offensively than people might want to believe.

You can see in the Maidana how many times Floyd pelted Maidana to the body without having any sort of effect that would compare with Khan's first round body shot a couple years ago.

MVC! will avoid this analytic critique of his stance and go on strutting about, proclaiming to the rest of the free world how Floyd does everything so much better than everyone else including throwing power shots.

 

Mayweather's power and offensive-mindedness at lower weights gets overplayed. He's always adapted to the opponent and situation. His power has always been due to speed and timing, not being heavy handed.

At 147 and up, he only throws combos here and there, but he's also walked down opponents behind a high guard (Judah, Mosley). He came forward at times against Canelo and Ortiz too. He spent a decent amount of the Cotto fight off the ropes, throwing more combos than usual, especially getting the uppercut through, which Cotto has always been a sucker for.

At 130-135, he had his fights where he was defensive (Sosa, Vargas, El Famoso after he hurt his hand). Even the Corrales fight, it wasn't Mayweather walking forward like he did against Judah, or threw that many combos. He was moving and using his legs and the ring a lot. He just landed absolutely brilliantly times left hooks.

Jesus Chavez was at 130 and he ate uppercut after uppercut and stayed on his feet. He was quietly taking a horrible beating, which might have gone unnoticed due to his activity level and HBO's awful commentary, but he took a scary amount of clean punches to the head.

Mayweather has always been a sharp puncher, never a big nor really powerful one.

 

Youre a complete and utter moron!:roll:

 

Do people realize the I hurt my hand excuse is just an excuse to satisfy the idiot fans when Floyd has to box a safety first fight or when he has a sub par performance????

Please??? Just look at the number of Hayemen fighters that cop that excuse when they have a bad showing. Last night you knew Adonis was going to drop that excuse before Jim Gray even got into the ring.

This sport can get pretty ****ing repetitive and predictable if you've been watching it long enough. Floyd hasn't had as many hand problems as people think. He has, however, perfected the art of making excuses.

 

At 130, you can clearly see how heavy handed he really was. I think he was one step away from having true genuine one punch power at that weight.

But alas there are fighters out there with the chins that can absorb such punishment even from fighters with thudding punching power.

 

I disagree.

I think the reason why he doesn't score stoppages is because his last ten opponents have been stopped a combined 9 or so times in their whole careers combined.

 

Does this not tell you how good floyd is then!! Despite these hand problems, he has come this far!!

 

Floyd, hand problems are well documented. Even his haters can agree on that. Floyd, was known as a power puncher coming out of the Olympics.