Ward being smacked like that in r2 just goes to show how special of a fighter Mayweather is.

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  1. MVC!

    MVC! The Best Ever Full Member

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    People don't realize how hard countering a jab on the right side really is. But Mayweather does it regularly in his fights and rarely if ever is punished for it.

    His pull counter is rarely attempted by anyone else because avoiding the jab is hard and punishing it is even harder. Ward avoided it, but couldn't punish it and got dropped.

    Ward tried it and got smacked and dropped. Missed the right hand and got clipped.

    Not only do you have to worry about the incoming right hand (The one Sergey threw), you also have to worry about easily missing and various other counters.

    Mayweather is actually such a talent.
     
  2. Sephiroth Rising 7

    Sephiroth Rising 7 'No tears please!' banned Full Member

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    Another zealot who attempts to attribute every conceivable skill and undeveloped technique displayed by a fighter to Floyd Mayweather
     
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  3. MVC!

    MVC! The Best Ever Full Member

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    ^

    I'm stating facts!

    May is just too talented
     
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  4. kovalevtheGoat

    kovalevtheGoat The Chelyabinsk Machine banned Full Member

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    Well Ward aint no Mayweather, But KRUSHER hits harder than Shane Mosley. P4P.
     
  5. Oxygene2

    Oxygene2 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lol, you always do this. I'll play anyway. I don't think the best Ward quite matches up to the best Mayweather Jr, as impressed as I am with Andre.
     
  6. NewBoxingOrder

    NewBoxingOrder Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mayweather is better than Ward, no doubt about it.

    Each has their own quirks and "negative" tendencies, but Floyd > Ward. Agreed.
     
  7. DoubleJab666

    DoubleJab666 Dot, dot, dot... Full Member

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    As far as I can see, he's attributed one technique and reasonably intelligently too. I can't see from the OP where you interpret he's trying to 'attribute every conceivable skill and undeveloped technique displayed by a fighter to Floyd Mayweather'.

    You're strange.
     
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  8. Sadono

    Sadono Active Member Full Member

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    It shows you how special of a fighter Kovalev is imo.
     
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  9. Oxygene2

    Oxygene2 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Also, I'd like to see stats for frequency of flash KD percentage through the divisions. It does seem though that, P4P, Floyd had a slightly superior chin.
     
  10. elchivito

    elchivito master betty Full Member

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    May never fought a fighter in his prime with the skill, size, and power Kov has. Unless he wants to step up like Brook did.
     
  11. Sephiroth Rising 7

    Sephiroth Rising 7 'No tears please!' banned Full Member

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    I'm not talking about this post in isolation. In a broader sense, the likes of the op have a tendency to somehow manage to affliate everything skillful or something missed to something mayweather would have done or has done that a fighter has not.
     
  12. DoubleJab666

    DoubleJab666 Dot, dot, dot... Full Member

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    Ok, I take it back...

    peace
     
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  13. Steve_Fox

    Steve_Fox Well-Known Member Full Member

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    maidana landed a similar counter in round 3 2nd fight, somehow mayweather didnt go down
     
  14. TinFoilHat

    TinFoilHat Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mayweather is a much better talent than Ward. I also don't think he would have stooped to his tactics in the same situation. I also think that mayweather was a much better fighter than Ward.
     
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  15. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    Only the great Maidana was able to land a flush power shot on his jaw. So special.