tito trindad vs floyd mayweather 147

Very bad match up for Floyd.

Tito is from Puerto Rico

They wouldn't be fighting to see who the best is

Health would come first

 

Floyd Mayweather beats him here.

Too good defensively. Tito wasn't able to handle top elite boxers.

A 9-3 beating imo.

 

Tito had a real puncher's chance. I will take Mayweather in a decision though.

 

I'm sure he would have fought him after the Hopkins loss and and after the Mayorga win :hey Nah but in all fairness Floyd boxes circles around I'm Tito was too 1 dimensional.

 

Considering floyd has never fought anyone even remotely close to the talent level of Trinidad, Oscar was on COCAINE during that time so he doesn't count... I have to go with Trinidad. Mayweather hasn't fought TOP opposition in his career. COTTO is the best name on his resume which he fought after the margarito beating and Pacquiao massacre.

 

Tito was a very fundamentally sound boxer-puncher, had a full arsenal with lots of power behind it. The problem is that if you didn't give him clear opportunities to land, he was a bit too tentative. He lacked an ATG jab to set up his great combinations, so if you denied him the space to do his work and feinted and gave him a variety of punches to worry about, the rounds would slip by on him. Hopkins and De La Hoya can control the center of a ring better than Floyd can, but Floyd still has the footwork and the control of distance and the punch variety and the defense to offset Tito's rhythm and outbox him, slowly picking him apart as the rounds went on. Mayweather UD.

I can see the argument for Tito though. His best bet would be to punch with Floyd with any opening he sees, because with Tito, more than anyone else Floyd has ever fought, one shot could change the entire fight. When Floyd jabs to the body, follow the retreat of his upper body with a straight right hand; when Floyd throws a leaping left, likely faster than Tito can duck it, throw a left at the same time and catch him with his chin in the air; when Floyd shoots his straight right to the body, immediately fire off that left hook during, not after. And of course, any time Floyd gets to the ropes, Tito's size and speed in combination punching serves him well to land a few good shots, especially to the body, or with a right over the top, and try and wear him down a bit. If Tito forgets he's the puncher and allows Floyd to control the pace without making his offense consistent, he's done.

 

Trinidad fought no one worth note. Literally no one at welter from 95-2000

Oscar outclassed him badly, he didn't fight Page, Lopez, Quartey, off-the-pipe-Pea, Rivera.........how can you put that much stock into such a paper reign?

 

Mayweather UD.


Would end up timing him regularly by the mid rounds and Tito would be out of the contest by the end of the fight

 

Tito was great, but limited. Mayweather would school him.

 

Floyd was not prime at 147 though

 

Even still, he has the tools to win comfortably against Tito

 

Well firstly, De La Hoya isn't Mayweather.

Tito beat an undefeated Yori Boy Campas, beat a Camacho who was closer to losing to Chavez in his prime than he was losing to DLH in 97, beat a still game Sweet Pea, and went on to stop an undefeated Vargas and demolish Joppy.

His resume isn't quite that of an ATG, but the guy could fight. And how he did it was the punctuation mark to his identity as a fighter.

I'm not investing a huge amount of credit into his resume, I'm simply recognizing the danger fixed into his abilities. I still favor Mayweather to win a decision and land his best shots while neutralizing Trinidad's. The only way I could see him winning is the way I suggested, but it's not my pick.

 

So yeah, keep it to 147.

Of course Pea was still game. i'd be game for 6 million.

 

I think it's valid to show his performances at 154 as being able to translate just as well to welter.

My dad's threshold for ever getting into a 12-round professional boxing match is 1 million. Was gonna try to throw him in the mix with Ruben and Senior, but with HBO's recent move idk if it's gonna happen.