Mayweather vs. Williams: the next Leonard - Hearns?

Not the same. Floyd is a complete fighter where as SRL isn't. SRL isn't nearly as defensive or as accurate as Floyd. SRL had to keep away from Hearns for like 75% of the fight and got the K.O win. Even tough he won by K.O, if it would have gone to the scorecards SRL would have CLEARLY lost. Ofcourse, Paul doesn't have Hearn's power, but Paul is dangrous. Its dangrous to have a fighter who is 6'2 has a serious reach advantage on you and throws 80-100 punches per round. It won't look like SRL vs Hearns. It'll just be Mayweather moving side to side and countering. Mayweather will be very defensive in this fight and will counter tons, still I'd say paul would be Mayweather's biggest threat at 147 and if the Paul that fought Margarito comes in fight night, I would NOT put my money on Floyd.i would put your and my money on floyd if the paul williams that came to fight margarito showed up you know why? because margarito is not as skillful as floyd, nor will he ever be. he's not as fast as floyd, nor will he ever be. he's not as elusive as floyd, not as accurate, doesn't fight as good as floyd against taller fighters, his defense isn't nearly as great as floyd's is. in other words, margo's skillset sucks compared to floyd's, and let's not talk about chin, seeing how both of these fighters have never really been in trouble of being knocked out, and rarely knocked down. both had great stamina, and both could be seen as 15 round fighters, unlike paul who would weaken as the fight progresses, which he has shown, while tony and floyd only gets stronger as the fights pregresses, which they have also shown. and, paul is vulnerable to body shots, something floyd goes to very well, and paul was in trouble late in the fight with margo, who is much slower than floyd, and although margo may be stronger a little bit, floyd has hurt fighters ot the body, and is more than capable of doing the same to paul.

Those 2 fights would be nothin alike.

Mayweather-Williams would be a borefest, guaranteed.

well, there are no similarities even the size difference. mayweather is small than leonard and williams is bigger than hearns. the size difference is much greater with mayweather-williams. the fight wouldn't go anything similar either. not nearly as entertaining for the casual fan. but I would love to see how this fight would play out. either guy could win it although I'm leaning towards mayweather but williams can win it with the right game plan.

Mayweather vs. Williams: the next Leonard - Hearns? what do you guys think? think about the style match up. floyd is retired and apparently raps now. /thread

Irrelevant because it will NEVER happen. Floyd doesnt fight top-tier ww's.

overall skillset, mayweather is better than sugar ray leonard. williams is a little more elusive than hearns, an di do not see him hurting floyd at all, but i do see floyd going to williams body a lot better than sugar went to hearns, and floyd can hurt williams to th ebody, whether physically or mentally, and williams said himself in an interview, that he'd be crazy to try to outbox floyd, he knows he can't do it. floyd is also too fast for williams and could block most of paul's shots. floyd also has a harder jab thab paul does. this fight is nothing like leonard/hearns. hearns had a better jab and sugar threw more flurries than floyd. floyd is a smarter fighter than sugar way and williams moves better than tommy. tommy hit harder as did sugar compared too these two, but floyd was faster overall than sugar was on the offense and defense. paul is faster than tommy was. floyd beats paul williams, no doubt. sugar had trouble with hearns a lot more than floyd would have with paul, trust me.

Well thats what you get for thinking. Sorry, I stand corrected. Mayweather v Williams is EXACTLY like SRL v Hearns. Exactly.

I never said he hits as hard as Hearns did, I said hes starting to sit on his punches and he walked through Quintana easier then Cotto did and showed what his power could be like. yeah, no! cotto koed quintana in 1 fight where as williams lost.

I never said he hits as hard as Hearns did, I said hes starting to sit on his punches and he walked through Quintana easier then Cotto did and showed what his power could be like. All right. I gotcha.

first off floyd is not as good as srl. sugar would whoop floyd at 47. 2nd williams is not 1/2 the fighter tommy hearns was. he is still young and needs time to see how he ends up. but i still don't ever see him near the level of tommy.

Well, Mayweather, other than being not as good and a ton more defensive isn't that different from Leonard I suppose. Its a stretch to compare Williams to Hearns in anything other than his ability to go from WW to MW though. Hearns could box excellently and punch hard. I'm not sure Williams can do either.

They fight very differently, the only similarity I can see is the height difference which would be even bigger than Leonard-Hearns.

Hearns could punch like a mule but had a weak chin, Williams slaps but has a good chin. Nope. I don't see any similarities besides the fact Williams is tall. personally, i could see willaims getting an early lead due to his reach south paul stance and work rate and mayweather havin to get in on the inside like he did against N'dou to pull it out of the bag.

williams can punch lights out hes just green. look at how he obliterated quintana Please don't tell me that PWill hits harder then Hearns at 147, man. C'mon now....

Hearns could punch like a mule but had a weak chin, Williams slaps but has a good chin. Nope. I don't see any similarities besides the fact Williams is tall.