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Originally posted by micky1971
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floyd has improved these moves in a big way,less volume and a higher hit rate.
Precision shots, remember floyd throws sneaky little short shots that are the reminders of how great he has become.
These kind of blows are not knock out nor, are they timed...they are thrown on impulse with such precision and speed that timing has really no part when you think about it.
I mean, when he sees an opening he will take it.
He wont wait, timing repetitive movement based on video playback or such alike is not how he does his business, its the purest of boxing skills not seen since ray robinson who, i think does not touch floyd.
I base this judgement on the way in which the fight game has moved on.
If you look at the early dempsey fights, he employed the "bobbing and weaving" which nobody had seen before and this movement became more popular when it was discovered that just leaning your head back would not fend off the kind of assaults that could be launched from this new and aggressive stance, counter measures needed to be employed...and were.
In modern boxing we have seen certain fighters bringing something new to the game.
Off the top of my head only one name immediately springs to mind.
"prince" naseem hamed! His odd,unbalanced,open,etc style basically confused everyone put in front of him.
Things like, "defend yourself at all times" and "keep your hands up" did not figure in his style. He based eveything on pure reflex, ability to move out of the way very quickly and strike back with natural punch power that was unparralled at that weight and people were unable to deal with it.
Unfortunately for him the confidence he once had turned to pure arrogance and as the rounds went on with barrera it all came tumbing down.
Two things happened here which ruined him, removing brendan ingle as his trainer and the other is money.
Now floyd on the other hand, is a money machine, has the same trainer from the word go and, he has developed a defensiver style which no fighter can undo.(the opposite to hameds blast em outta there style)
he has speed. (what did freddie roach say)? Speed kills.
He has more than 40 pro wins, and maintains the object of the game to a tee.
Mastering the game by hitting without being hit.
Now, i have not seen him jump in on anybody recently and the right lead is a magnificent shot. It shows the speed, its not expected(most of the time) however i have not seen him throw it against a "leftie" i do wonder how paciauo will cope?!?!?
But, i see floyd scoring early knockdowns as a result of pacmans hopping from left to right. He will exploit that straight away as pacman will not keep still, hes like a live wire which up until now works! Floyd wil slow the pace and go straight through the middle i think.
Pacman was troubled by clotteys straight forward aggresion, his uppercut seemed to get through nicely and i think pacman will need to do more than throw powershots.
Lets face it, the only credible opponent was cotto in terms of level of opposition. But, and this is a big but,,,,,,,cotto had no chin.
Pitalua,corley,judah, and that other geezer....the brazilian????yknow..they all exposed cotto.
Nobody can touch floyd, end of.
Precision shots, remember floyd throws sneaky little short shots that are the reminders of how great he has become.
These kind of blows are not knock out nor, are they timed...they are thrown on impulse with such precision and speed that timing has really no part when you think about it.
I mean, when he sees an opening he will take it.
He wont wait, timing repetitive movement based on video playback or such alike is not how he does his business, its the purest of boxing skills not seen since ray robinson who, i think does not touch floyd.
I base this judgement on the way in which the fight game has moved on.
If you look at the early dempsey fights, he employed the "bobbing and weaving" which nobody had seen before and this movement became more popular when it was discovered that just leaning your head back would not fend off the kind of assaults that could be launched from this new and aggressive stance, counter measures needed to be employed...and were.
In modern boxing we have seen certain fighters bringing something new to the game.
Off the top of my head only one name immediately springs to mind.
"prince" naseem hamed! His odd,unbalanced,open,etc style basically confused everyone put in front of him.
Things like, "defend yourself at all times" and "keep your hands up" did not figure in his style. He based eveything on pure reflex, ability to move out of the way very quickly and strike back with natural punch power that was unparralled at that weight and people were unable to deal with it.
Unfortunately for him the confidence he once had turned to pure arrogance and as the rounds went on with barrera it all came tumbing down.
Two things happened here which ruined him, removing brendan ingle as his trainer and the other is money.
Now floyd on the other hand, is a money machine, has the same trainer from the word go and, he has developed a defensiver style which no fighter can undo.(the opposite to hameds blast em outta there style)
he has speed. (what did freddie roach say)? Speed kills.
He has more than 40 pro wins, and maintains the object of the game to a tee.
Mastering the game by hitting without being hit.
Now, i have not seen him jump in on anybody recently and the right lead is a magnificent shot. It shows the speed, its not expected(most of the time) however i have not seen him throw it against a "leftie" i do wonder how paciauo will cope?!?!?
But, i see floyd scoring early knockdowns as a result of pacmans hopping from left to right. He will exploit that straight away as pacman will not keep still, hes like a live wire which up until now works! Floyd wil slow the pace and go straight through the middle i think.
Pacman was troubled by clotteys straight forward aggresion, his uppercut seemed to get through nicely and i think pacman will need to do more than throw powershots.
Lets face it, the only credible opponent was cotto in terms of level of opposition. But, and this is a big but,,,,,,,cotto had no chin.
Pitalua,corley,judah, and that other geezer....the brazilian????yknow..they all exposed cotto.
Nobody can touch floyd, end of.
wrong!>>>wrong!
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