I don't get this idea that Floyd had a lot of problems against Maidana. You mean other than the fouls? Also didn't realize we were talking about late-career Mayweather in this thread...
Care to tell us how many of those 7 previous opponents had started out fighting at less than Featherweight, and campaigned for 9 years at Lightweight?
130 pound Castillo against 140 pound Hearns? It's only fair that they both have to fight below their actual weightclasses. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I didn't realize Duran fought Tommy at 140.. 130 was below Castillos's weight class then? You really hate Duran don't you?
Yeah, I don't know what to make of those fights, tbh. Castillo didn't do anything particularly effective and never had Mayweather hurt or even buzzed, but Mayweather's offense was conspicuously absent. I can believe that he was hurt during the first fight but I would have expected him to look more impressive during the second. As I think I've said before, I would favor Duran fighting his best fight to beat Mayweather at 135.
Are we talking " out boxing " Mayweather before they knock him out? If so definitely Robinson, and Tommy Hearns. Probably Leonard, and possibly Napoles, and Duran.
That's because you see what you want to. That's a hard part of life. You don't realise or give weighting to effective aggression if it doesn't suit you, you don't count good body shots if it doesn't suit you, you don't count the one or two clean, decent shots that land during multi-punch combinations if it doesn't suit you, you don't give credence to Maidana's ring generalship in certain rounds if it doesn't suit you. Yes, it wasn't a prime Mayweather, but Castillo was the last man of a similar mould that fought prime Mayweather, and gave him the same problems.
:huh If you say so... I, like most sensible observers, saw Mayweather win the fight by a comfortable (if unusually close for him) 8-4ish margin. I have no idea what you think you saw or why you think you saw it better than I did. I do sense that you and I have very different interpretations of "effective aggression" though.