Prime For Prime: Ricardo Mayorga vs Mark Breland at 147 - Who wins?

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  1. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    I think Breland would beat him more often than not.

    Mayorga was/is just a crackpot with a granite chin and a decent dig. He'd do alright at his best against some of the slower, more methodical welterweights like Cotto, and would ruin Margarito, Baldomir etc.

    But fighters like Trinidad, Mosley, DLH would always be way too good. Not that Breland was in that class, but I think stylewise he's not great for Mayorga.

    The best prime vs prime Mayorga fight would be against Vargas. It might actually resemble a Hagler/Mugabi type fight.
     
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  2. SportsLeader

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    I don't think Mayorga's wins over Vernon Forrest were a fluke. He legitimately outboxed Forrest in their second fight, and if his stamina wasn't so suspect (likely due to lack of roadwork, smoking) he probably would have won most rounds in that fight and dominated Forrest, dare I say it. I actually think Mayorga could outbox a lot of boxer types who don't throw many punches, boxers who don't press the action. Ricardo could just attack them in spurts from just out of their range, so they couldn't land consitently. He did it to success against good boxers in Forrest (an excellent boxer) and Michele Piccirillo, he made Forrest's jab look insignificant in their fight, and that is the same jab which gave the likes of Shane Mosley hell. I'm not proclaiming he would beat everyone, but Mayorga would be big trouble for any low workrate boxer type, and would probably beat the majority of them (unless they had excellent head movement).
     
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  3. Jasper Simone

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    Mayorga would destroy Breland both physically and mentally. Never had a lot of faith in Breland. I remember when he beat Volbrecht for the vacant WBA title and the picture on the front page of boxing news was (I believe) Breland landing a big right hand. I sorta built up this impression that he was going to be the second coming of Hearns and then, at a later date, I saw the fight. Wasn't the first time I'd seen him but I'd given him a pass. When I saw that fight I thought Honeyghan would eat him up. Hadn't counted on Lloyd's deterioration.

    Nah, not sold on Breland so I'd take Mayorga by late rounds stoppage because Mark would eventually succumb.
     
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