The fact that a light heavyweight fighter is in the discussion of being as fast as these guys pretty much clearly makes him a lock for one of the fastest fighters ever P4P.
Name some others, please.
** Floydy is a quick reflexed fighter, but those a dime a dozen.
Jones has probably slowed down enough to be as fast. Same with Camacho who was the fastest hand and footspeed of any modern fighter with Pea a close 2nd.
Junior Witter was actually the faster fighter against Judah who used to be faster than Floyd. Too bad Jr didn't know how to fight. Ivan Calderon makes Floydy look like he's fighting underwater with scuba gear strapped on.
Floydy disciplined in training and having pretty good natural talent to start with, but nothing special in speed. Guys like Tyson, Ali, Robinson, Leonard, Benitez, Duran, Camacho, Pea, Dempsey, had mad natural attributes including speed of hand and foot.
Floydy 2nd tier in that department which is still top notch in his era divisions. He could really never do much against Castillo though who is not noted for speed. Timing and placement count for more than speed. Plenty of speedy boxers never pan out, but Floydy, in spite of his low work rate has excellent timing and placement. That, conditioning and strategy have kept him in the game as he is clearly past his best.
In Mayweather's own words......it's not about the speed, skillz pay the bills. He is not the hardest puncher, he is not one of the tallest fighters, he is not one of te strongest....he is not the fastest.
But he is the most all around balanced fighter around right now. This is why he is better then the Malinaggi's, Spinks's, Mosley's etc,.
He is multi-dimensional.
Bro what gave mayweather trouble went he fought judah was that judah was a south paw. thats all.
I cant wait till mayweather fight a real south paw with good power in his prime. mayweather doesnt know how to fight south paws thats why he had trouble with guys like corley,judah,agustus. The other south paw were not good enuff fighter to beat mayweather but really has a former fighter myself i can see that mayweather, if he fights a real good south paw he will lose. Even floyds father said that little floyd dont know how to fight south paws. spadafora gave it to him in the gym training and i dont want to here that floyd was not in shape cause that bullshit the bottom line is that floyd will lose if he fights a good south paw.
Is their any boxer you may feel is faster than Mayweather?
Jones?
Judah?
Mosley?
Thoughts???
Jones easily ,anybody can throw quick punches if they have nothing on them ,Roy knocked people clean out with unbelievable speed & power
Judah was quicker. His straight left and left uppercut are quicker than any punches in Floyd's arsenal. Floyd was just better all-around.
Although Floyd is fast, I've never been totally in awe and amazed by his speed as I have by other guys who've fought in similar weight classes (such as Camacho's speed, M. Taylor's handspeed, etc..). I've more impressed with his smarts and technical abilities.
Everybody says the guy throws pitty pat shots and being an American, I thought so too at first back before he fought Lacy. But after having watched some older fights of his and seeing how he's knocked out guys like Byron MItchell and had dude's heads snapping back and guys like Lacy in a shell there's NO WAY they're pitty pat shots. I just gotta disagree on that one and hope that myth gets dispelled.
To be fair though... Calzaghe landed like 407 punches or something. You can't tell me that a guy sits down on 407 punches and doesn't knock out or kill his opponent? I think Joe hits harder than people think, but he clearly is not as powerful as you think, IMO.
Everybody says the guy throws pitty pat shots and being an American, I thought so too at first back before he fought Lacy. But after having watched some older fights of his and seeing how he's knocked out guys like Byron MItchell and had dude's heads snapping back and guys like Lacy in a shell there's NO WAY they're pitty pat shots. I just gotta disagree on that one and hope that myth gets dispelled.
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Dont get me wrong m8 those pitty pat shots have some serious power
but he does tend to use an open fist when he throws a shot
Just the way his been taught i guess
Pitty pat shots though Bro
while floyds are full contact shots lol
Dont get me wrong Joe is fast for a big guy
it shocks other fighters how fast he is
Everybody says the guy throws pitty pat shots and being an American, I thought so too at first back before he fought Lacy. But after having watched some older fights of his and seeing how he's knocked out guys like Byron MItchell and had dude's heads snapping back and guys like Lacy in a shell there's NO WAY they're pitty pat shots. I just gotta disagree on that one and hope that myth gets dispelled.