Just rewatched Gatti-Mayweather

Baldy buzzed Zab once, and then he ran for the rest of the fight. Nothing even CLOSE to the amount of hurt Cotto put on him. Cotto hurt him again and again. Cotto isn't know for one punch stopping power, and neither is Baldy.

 

Lets not forget that Floyds offensive performance, in the Boldomir fight, went downhill when he re-injured his hand(forgot which round that was). The fact is, Mayweathers hand problems are so bad that it has changed his fighting style/gameplan.

 

Floyd is a dangerous fighter. I disagree that Floyd could have done the same to Oscar, in fact -- he had trouble landing on Oscar when Floyd got off first. Oscar showed some good defense in that fight.

He beat Baldomir as soundly as you can. So soundly, in fact, that many of us wanted to see him try to knock out a much bigger man.

The only worry for Floyd in my mind is coming down from 154. Fighters that come down usually leave a little behind. Still, I'm sure whatever he has left in the tank is enough for both Cotto and Hatton.

 

Cotto has a Tszyu type of power, name one opponent that he fought that wasnt busted up, puffed up, deformed face or cut. Most of them looked like this guy from The goonies when Cotto was done with them.

 

I think Floyd can outclass many of the top boxers just like he did Gatti and Corrales but unfortunately he chooses not to go out on a limb. As it comes closer to the end of his career it just seems like he is trying to do whatever he can to keep his recored, hence the more cautious approach. Look at the DLH fight, He could have quite easily stepped it up from the 8th round onwards because Oscar was gassed but he looked like he barely broke a sweat. The same kind of thing you see with Jermaine Taylor, rather than entertain and show their talent they hold back and just try to edge out their opponent.

 

I agree word to word.

 

I honestly don't think he could have stopped De La Hoya, but other than that I agree with you. A lot of fighters won't step it up to make a win, a definitive win. They'd rather get a slim safe decision than risk a loss to go for the big win. I think Mayweather requires an opponent that brings out the competator in him. I think Hatton can do that better than probably anyone right now.

 

What I said about the Chico fight wasnt meant to lessen Floyds win, I was just pointing out what he consistently did wrong in the fight, or what he was made to do. But Floyd did run a lot, i never said he wasnt effective. He was on hid bicycle and running Chico into his counters, whats so off about that?

 

Definately. Same with Taylor, in his next fight with Pavlik we should see if he sinks or swims because that kid aint gonna let up on him at all and we'll finally see if he has the stuff or not.

 

Haha, yeah okay...:rofl

 

Because calling it "running away" isn't really accurate. He beat Chicos ass, dropping him multiple times on the way to a stoppage win. It's called ring generalship. He was moving away and counter punching, but calling the ass whooping delivered that night "running" isn't accurate.

Now the end of the Baldy fight and the De La Hoya fight... yeah, that you can call running. When you're absolutely brutalizing your opponent without receiving anything in return, it ain't running. It's call taking your opponent to school.

 

I remember Ricky saying that he met Gatti on the day of the fight at his hotel room. He was shocked when asked by Gatti what stategy should he use to beat Mayweather, right then and there Ricky knew Gatti wouldn't win.

 

He put on a performance for the ages, but I would be surprised if he did that to Hatton or Cotto.

 

Exactly. To take nothing away from Mayweather's punch perfect performance Gatti didn't have a clue what he was doing in that fight. Trying to box Mayweather when his only chance was to go berserk and asking Hatton what to do the day before show how clueless he was.

Floyd was beyond awesome in that fight, but Gatti has no defence at the best of times and fought the wrong fight. Oscar destroyed Gatti quicker than Floyd did, though of course Floyd is smaller. Everyone's accuracy goes through the roof when they fight Gatti.

 

Jose FM,

Please don't take offense to this, it's in no way an insult. The guy in your avatar (I presume is you) looks like a Spanish Max Kellerman.