What round would GGG have stopped Floyd in?

If he’d have fought more defensively, he could have survived longer. But he wouldn’t have banked more rounds, because he wouldn’t have been as offensive.

Being defensive doesn’t bank you the rounds.

He didn’t really fight an unintelligent fight. He used his speed and his power to score points and to try and deter GGG from pouring forward. He thought that he could back him up and accumulate enough points to win. But GGG was just too strong for him. If he’d have fought more cautiously, he wouldn’t have gotten hurt, but he’d have had practically no chance of winning the fight. So he deserves huge credit.

It’s not a myth at all that Canelo stood off of him. There were times when Floyd was in the corners, and Canelo wouldn’t press him like Oscar and Maidana did.

Yeah, if you’re talking about the weight cut affecting GGG then that changes everything. Because if GGG was tired and not fighting him aggressively and backing him up, then Floyd would have been confident in letting his hands go. But if he hadn’t have been compromised at all by the weight loss, where he’d have had great stamina, then Floyd would obviously have been very cautious.

You’ve just said yourself that Floyd wasn’t confident in making the fight. Well exactly. It speaks volumes.

It was there to be made, but he didn’t want it.

So this is just a complete fantasy. But if he had’ve taken it, then it’s obvious that Floyd would not have been very aggressive or offensive.

GGG would have been the overwhelming favourite, due to match being comprised of:

A faded Floyd with zero power, vs a power punching, pressure fighting MW.

It’s not about who the better fighter was, only how they’d have matched up on the night stylistically.

Floyd didn’t have the tools to beat elite level MW’s.

There’s a reason why he retired on Berto and an MMA fighter, and why that he only fought above WW on just 3 occasions during his entire career.

 

The same people that are just assuming that GGG would be unaffected by dropping 6lbs will tell you that Floyd drained Canelo by making him drop 2lbs...

 

Floyd would not have dared for such greatness

 

He would run around the ring and probably avoid being KOd but lose a lopsided decision(if he had dared for greatness(

 

Yeah.

He’d have been backed up and put into survival mode. And you can’t win a fight in survival mode, because you can’t accumulate enough points due to having only a very limited offence.

 

Yes it is

 

3rd or 4th

 

What? Maidana, a blown up JWW, gave Floyd all he could handle. Yes, that was a post-prime Floyd but Maidana was never some ATG pressure fighter.

GGG was much larger than Maidana, a FAR superior boxer, an arguably ATG jab, a respectable defense, and an expert at cutting off the ring. GGG brutally stops Floyd. Imagine the Mosley round 2 sequence happening an additional 2-3 rounds before Sr waves the towel. Floyd would never quit because he was a beast, but he would be stopped. Weight classes are real...

Now the above only happens because GGG is larger. In a P4P sense, if both guys were the same size, Floyd razzles and dazzles en route to a UD where GGG has success in spots.

 

GGG was not a weight bully, just very good and effective at MW. He's Top 5 MW ever imho and wouldnt take anyone seriously if they said he was worse than Top 10 MW ever. He was very, very good.

Haney will not have the career GGG has - plain as day to see

 

Floyd was so great that it wouldn't shock me if he outpointed GGG.

 

Ggg has never been great. His best win is jacobs. Ggg wasn't worthy of pbf going up to 154 to fight him back then. Who was his biggest win back then Murray? Stop this madness.

 

GGG was not overhyped lol. Dude was a Top 5 MW for christ sake...

 

GGG won fight 1 and fight 2 shouldve been a draw imho. If you look at the press row scores nearly every outlet had GGG winning fight 1, most had GGG winning fight 2 also but I felt a draw was fair