Mayweather vs Forrest at 154: Forrest wins.

Ha ha ha.

Ya'll kill me. And to think that ya'll are gonna go off a guy "danny rand" that has no CLUE what he's talking about.

Let's put this in a historical perspective. Shall we?

When Leonard met Mayweather's daddy in the ring, Mayweather's daddy hoped to win the fight against a guy who was a natural counterpuncher and had a size advantage by counterpunching, and suffered a horrendous beatdown because of it.

Leonard came against a similar scenario when he met Hearns that Mayweather would be in if he met Forrest. Yes, while Forrest is no Hearns, Mayweather is no Leonard, but there are similiarties.

For one, Hearns had the size advantage, fought out of a counterpunching style even when aggressive, and was the slightly slower man.

Did Leonard simply choose to lay on the ropes and counterpunch his way to victory? No because there was a size difference in which Leonard would suffer a reach disparity when attempting to counterpunch and would often find himself at the end of Hearn's punches. So Leonard adapted, and brought the fight TO HEARNS, leading with a jab, moving his head, and throwing combinations.

And while he switched between the two styles of counterpunching and making the fight as he was an incredibly versatile fighter, if he DID not take the risks he did, he would have been destroyed.

Keep in mind that this was Leonard's best weight and he was at peak athletic ability, explosiveness, speed, etc, yet he chose to fight Hearns the way he did because it was the only way he could conceivably win.

Now, Floyd, out of his best weightclass at 154, is going to have the explosiveness to counterpunch Forrest, (not a reckless fighter at all), by fighting off the back foot and make up all that reach without getting hit and landing perfectly?

And you bring up Mora, who is easily 6 feet? Man, think about it. It's so basic I feel like an idiot describing it, but I will because a lot of ya'll are somewhat ignorant when it comes to boxing.

If you got two guys who are approximately the same size, (Mora had a size advantage), and maybe one is a bit slower, (Mora), you can get away with fighting cautiously and counterpunching your way to victory even with a disciplined boxer counterpuncher like Forrest. All Forrest has to do is be off his game for a night, (Castillo Mayweather anybody?), and he was, so Mora won by a hair.

The next fight, the story was different.

The fact is though is that Floyd will be giving up TOO much size for him to get away with fighting a counterpunching style against a guy who is a natural counterpuncher with considerable skill.

Do you think they just say a good big man beats a good little man because some dumb mother ****er just made that **** up?

I mean, **** use ya'lls ****in heads and not for suckin eachother's dicks and think about what you write before you put it on paper.

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Orthodox is Marquez. Forrest fights a slickster type style, kinda like Mayweather. And by the way, when Mosley fought forrest he tried counterpunching, and got his ass handed back for it, and this was when Mosley was considered UNBEATABLE.

Remember, this fight was a BIG UPSET when Forrest won!

 

Yeah, but you can't hope to compare Mayweather's style at all to Mayorga who is a complete bully in the ring.

And this is Mosley at the peak of his career. This is Mosley that was untouchable, and he tried to counterpunch his way to victory against Forrest and was defeated because of it. I'm not saying it would have been different if he would have aggressively attacked Forrest, but it certainly would have been closer.

 

Please just tell me how.

I mean.....ya'll are convinced Floyd could just play it safe by counterpunching, but I find that incredibly hard to believe. Incredibly.

Read two posts up or so when I gave a historical instance of when something like that occured.