Just rewatched Gatti-Mayweather

I remember that. Ricky's eyes were like saucers.

 

Name a suicidal human being who wouldn't be distrubed and intimidated by how their future opponent is performing.

That fight made Floyd look like a superman. I still can't believe that some of the things he did could be done.

Throwing 5 straight right leads and landing them flush in the 6th round :scaredas: :scaredas: . Most fighter have hard time keeping their hands up in 6th round, Floyd destroyed a good fighter. That was UNREAL!!


Andrey

 

Im not really sure that Gatti Vs Mayweather is in any way important to the outcome of Mayweather V Cotto/Hatton. Gatti, whilst one of my favorite all time fighters, is not in the same class as them and whilst Cotto/Hatton are happy to take one to give one, Gatti was happy to take five for no real reason.

They are both younger and a cut above Gatti.

Cotto beats Mayweather at 47, and Hatton has a reasonable chance, dependent on the referee of the fight.

 

Floyd could have done exactly the same thing to Oscar and Baldomir. He just wasn't stupid enough to risk it since they punch harder so he took a more safer way to a win.

Floyd did even worse to Ndoue who was a brutal puncher. he exact that to Corrales who was also a brutal puncher.
Reason why he didn't open up to De La Hoya so much and Baldomir is becasue they punch harder so a mistake on Floyd's part could be deadlier and also becuase he had too much at stake in those to fights.


Andrey

 

I love how many people are calling Gatti a B class fighter. I knew plenty of people picked Gatti to beat Mayweather, because "Mayweather can't hurt him." Before that fight Mayweather said that Gatti was a C class fighter who had deceived the boxing world, and he would beat him like a C class fighter... he kept his promise on that one.

I don't think punching power had anything to do with other fights you're comparing to. Baldy was just a tough SOB. He was not known for having particularly impressive power. De La Hoya was WAY bigger and stronger than Mayweather. I don't know many people who thought that Mayweather would choose to stand in and trade with him. The question was whether De La Hoya could turn it into a brawl... and he couldn't.

The main reason Floyd had fought so many fights in safety mode, is that he's fighting guys who are really too big for him. I think he stopped being able to hurt most fighters at 140. He didn't hurt Gatti with a single punch. It was just the total domination... he broke Gatti's will.

 

***** PLEASE :-( have you even watched those fights? Ndou was everything BUT a "brutal" puncher... he was a swarming preassure fighter, a volume puncher. As for Corrales? Floyd ran all night while pot shotting from the outside, Chicos lack of defense coming forward is what got him knowcked down a bunch of times.

 

Man, give Floyd his credit. The Coralles fight was pure brilliance. Listen to BIG George commentating, even Merchant has to tell him to calm down. That fight is the 'sweet science' at its best. As for Ndou, rewatch his fights and you'll realise he had hard punches, maybe something to do with his 26inch arm length or that over 95% of his fights(wins) ended in a KO.:deal :deal

 

that fight was pure claissic thet was a a skool

 

Right about the first part, but come on! Are you going to take the credit away from his domination of Chico by saying he "ran all night." He didn't run, we slipped Chico's punches and counter punched him all night long. Now a KO isn't meaningfull unless someone stands in front of the other and takes punches for good measure?

Chico was one of the hardest P4P punchers in the game. Only a fool who wanted to get KO'ed would willingly take his shots if he could just as easily avoid them. He absolutely dominated Corales, and it was Floyd's biggest win before De La Hoya. He was a favorite to win, but NOBODY expected him to dominate totally, much less stop him.

 

Baldomir is no more weaker then then Cotto in terms to punching power, punches to the head at least. Baldomir at one time had Zab out on his feet, and in the fight with Cotto zab was getting hit constantly and ate up cotto's shots pretty well, but the constant strain got on him, and I believe Zab could've lasted the whole fight since the stoppage was pre-mature, however understandable.

 

atsch