Prison????? Don't you mean the holiday hotel he stayed in protected from the other inmates?? What they should have done was put him in with the general population. He'd have found out first hand what its like to be beaten & ****d. They don't like cowards that assault women & kids in there
Come on...Point is that he was locked up and couldn't do any serious training. Hadn't fought in almost two years. And by the way, I don't want to hate on your retribution fantasy but Floyd would have been able to buy all the protection he needed in there with no problem.
I think looking back it's easy to forget how dangerous Corrales was. This was a guy who was undefeated and a monster puncher. Mayweather didn't just outbox him but he put a beat down on a very dangerous guy. He best performance in my view.
@seven...of course it was great....but as we know and see the pacturds have several excuses for that one....
The Marquez fight was before he went to county jail. It took place in September 2009, originally scheduled for July 2009. Mayweather had "retired" in June 2008 when the negotiations for the DLH rematch fell apart. He went to jail in the summer of 2012, remember his sentence got delayed until the summer because of the Cotto fight in May 2012. He was supposed to go to jail a couple months earlier, but Floyd's lawyers were able to push it back by arguing that the Cotto fight would help the local economy. Then his first fight after jail was in May 2013 against the Ghost.
#48 shut down the so called fighter of the decade made him fight his fight while limiting him to a career low workrate and connect % while out working and out landing him while making him look amateurish forcing him to make up bogus excuse about a bad shoulder in the process.
Gatti was a shot C level fighter. How can dominating somebody like that rank in the top 5? What about the 2nd Castillo fight?
Corrales was probably his best performance. Fought pretty much a perfect fight. His performance against Hatton was a pretty complete performance. Some people try to argue that Hatton pushed him close for 5-6 rounds, but Hatton was barely landing anything. He just made Floyd work harder than usual, but won maybe a round or 2. Hatton tried to turn it into a rough and ugly fight, but Floyd beat him in that area too. Everyone remembers Cortez being too involved and I agree he jumped in too quickly in the first couple rounds, but when he did let them fight in and out of the clinches, Floyd got the better of it. One of the things he did brilliantly was dig in right uppercuts to Hatton's body when his left arm was tangled up with Hatton's right arm. Naturally, Floyd beat Hatton at long range as well. Pretty complete performance.
cotto. cotto was suppose to be shot. the only guy who fugged floyd up since castillo. floyd survived it
It's hard to say cause they are all the same and follow the same pattern.......slow boring snoozefest. If I had to choose one, would have to be the pacquaio one just cause of who he was up against
It sure does take away from that. Even vs a weight drained fighter, Floyds performance in that fight was not all that impressive. It wasnt a bad performance, but it was far from his best.