How Textbook is Floyd Mayweather?

[Andyreww]

Originally Posted by GrandpaBernard

What I notice are quite a few instances where he punches without tucking his chin. I am not sure how he is able to get away with it.

Tucking your chin in as you punch is one of the first things they teach inside of boxing gyms.

I think as he says, it looks different from the outside, he's such an intelligent boxer than when it looks like there's an opening with his chin, you throw, and you get caught with a few right hands, it makes you less likely to fall for the same trap.

[GrandpaBernard]

Originally Posted by Andyreww

I think as he says, it looks different from the outside, he's such an intelligent boxer than when it looks like there's an opening with his chin, you throw, and you get caught with a few right hands, it makes you less likely to fall for the same trap.

ah very interesting

it's like he's showing his chin as a feint to draw them out, so he can counter

I'll have to watch his fights more closely. I've seen the exposed chin in photos, so it's just the photos just capture one specific moment. Photos aren't real time and dynamic like video.

[Andyreww]

Originally Posted by GrandpaBernard

ah very interesting

it's like he's showing his chin as a feint to draw them out, so he can counter

I'll have to watch his fights more closely. I've seen the exposed chin in photos, so it's just the photos just capture one specific moment. Photos aren't real time and dynamic like video.

Everything he does is for a counter.

Very intelligent fighter

[Rolaz]

Cotto exposed Mayweather Jr., he can be hit...he probably forgot to protect his nose!

[Andyreww]

Originally Posted by Rolaz

Cotto exposed Mayweather Jr., he can be hit...he probably forgot to protect his nose!

Yup, them 5 jabs they kept showing really ****ed him up.

[Miburo]

Originally Posted by THE REED

Textbook = JMM

JMM is way too wide open and throws a lot of looping, off-balance shots. Arguello had a much more textbook offense as a counterpuncher.

[Capaedia]

Originally Posted by Rolaz

Cotto exposed Mayweather Jr., he can be hit...he probably forgot to protect his nose!

Exposed him by winning two rounds.

What the **** was Marquez III then?

[TBear]

Boxing Forum > Boxing Forums > Boxing History > How Textbook is Floyd Mayweather?

Remember when this used to be the history section?

[Capaedia]

Originally Posted by TBear

Boxing Forum > Boxing Forums > Boxing History > How Textbook is Floyd Mayweather?

Remember when this used to be the history section?

I don't blame them.

Even in here we've already had someone allege that Cotto exposed Mayweather. In NSB you'd be lucky for it to just be that.

[Spartacus Sully]

Originally Posted by TBear

Boxing Forum > Boxing Forums > Boxing History > How Textbook is Floyd Mayweather?

Remember when this used to be the history section?

id say it kinda belongs, the idea of textbook boxing is a historical idea thats been around for quite some time, giving those with good knowledge of the history of boxing a better idea of what textbook is. so essentially your comparing something from the past (textbook) to something of the present (mayweather) which dosnt make this very diffrent then a marciano vs klitschko thread.