Will age eventually catch up to him? I hate to compare Wlad to Floyd, but Wlad was easily beating opponents for years, now it seems age has finally caught up to him by losing to Fury. I'm pretty positive if Wlad was 5-7 years younger he would have definitely beat Fury but now he's 40 & out of his prime. Will the same thing happen with Floyd if he continues to fight into his 40s, where eventually someone will beat him by him sticking around fighting too long? I guess it also depends on the type of opponents he would decide to fight as well.
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He already did. Vegas just loves saving him.
He lost to Castillo 1 ( everyone knows that), Maidana (removed his tooth, too much hugging he should have been DQ'd or at least points deduction), Pacquiao.
So anything he does isn't really surprising. He never loses in Vegas.
Of course. Anything can happen in boxing, he could lose his comeback fight just like he theortically could have lost any of the previous fights he had, but the odds are, he won't. Despite what some of the folks in this thread are saying, he looked as quick, sharp, and dominant as ever in his last few fights. He looked ESPECIALLY sharp against Pacquiao. It'd still be a huge shock and moment if he came back and lost.
If he chooses carefully, opponents with slow feet or footwork he can continue to win no matter how hard they punch.
But most think he's lost already so what does an unbeaten record really mean?
Will age eventually catch up to him? I hate to compare Wlad to Floyd, but Wlad was easily beating opponents for years, now it seems age has finally caught up to him by losing to Fury. I'm pretty positive if Wlad was 5-7 years younger he would have definitely beat Fury but now he's 40 & out of his prime. Will the same thing happen with Floyd if he continues to fight into his 40s, where eventually someone will beat him by him sticking around fighting too long? I guess it also depends on the type of opponents he would decide to fight as well.
Yes; Floyd won the fight wide, but he looked terrible in the Andre Berto fight, dragging for air whenever he could and missing far more punches/counter opportunities than he would've missed as recently ago as the Alvarez fight.
His ring knowledge and mastery of the fight game is such that, not unlike Hopkins, he can "old man" his way past most opponents, but the end was coming up pretty quick. Mayweather-Porter likely ends up in a tough scrap like the Maidana fights, Mayweather-Thurman hangs on how Floyd reacts if he ever gets timed on a shot, and Mayweather-Garcia is a far more hotly contested scrap than folks want to think; Floyd finds a way to win all three fights in my opinion.
Kell Brook and Errol Spence Jr, no different than what Chad Dawson did to Hopkins, give Floyd hell on Earth, especially if he doesn't get those fights before 2017.
Nobody beats father time
This.
Nobody, literally nobody, beats the passing of time and what it does to you. Don't matter how great your attributes are, you can't go forever man you simply can't. If Floyd came back and carried on another few of fights say two or three more years, it would not surprise me at all (nor shouldn't surprise anyone...) to see him lose eventually.
Everything passes us by no matter who you are.
Will age eventually catch up to him? I hate to compare Wlad to Floyd, but Wlad was easily beating opponents for years, now it seems age has finally caught up to him by losing to Fury. I'm pretty positive if Wlad was 5-7 years younger he would have definitely beat Fury but now he's 40 & out of his prime. Will the same thing happen with Floyd if he continues to fight into his 40s, where eventually someone will beat him by him sticking around fighting too long? I guess it also depends on the type of opponents he would decide to fight as well.
Not if he only campaigns at welterweight, those guys can't beat him. However, if he starts fighting 154 and 160 guys if/when he returns, then a defeat would happen within a year or two of his return.
Ps. Wlad didn't lose because of age, he lost because he was scared ****less of fighting a bigger guy. Age has nothing to do with not throwing punches and turning your back on your opponent.
Wlad's issue was his heart and confidence when the roles were switched for once (when he didn't have the height, reach, and weight advantage).
of course he will. dude is pushing 40 now. between slowing down and gaining weight he will have to fight at 154 or 160 against younger, bigger and faster men.
Mayweather's a lot of things, but he's no fool. If he comes back, it will be against an easy opponent like Garcia, who looks better on paper than in real life. This would satisfy the casuals. The other choice is Manny. Some of the hard cores would say a rematch with Pacquiao makes sense, while others would say it doesn't. However, their curiosity would compel most of them to tune in if Mayweather did choose him, to try to break Marciano's record. After that, he'd retire for good. He won't stick around to get beaten up by younger guys.
Given the comp, at WW. I can see him easily surviving another 6 fights without losing for the next three years. If anyone gets him it will be Keith Thurman.
If he steps up and fights bigger guys, I can see him losing to a JMW, or MW.
Depends who he fights really. And he has mastered the art of winning rounds, you'd have to knock him out. He got a 8-4 win on the cards against Maidana in fight one Ffs...
Will age eventually catch up to him? I hate to compare Wlad to Floyd, but Wlad was easily beating opponents for years, now it seems age has finally caught up to him by losing to Fury. I'm pretty positive if Wlad was 5-7 years younger he would have definitely beat Fury but now he's 40 & out of his prime. Will the same thing happen with Floyd if he continues to fight into his 40s, where eventually someone will beat him by him sticking around fighting too long? I guess it also depends on the type of opponents he would decide to fight as well.
Nobody beats father time. Yes. I believe fmj will lose eventually if he continues to fight regardless of level of opponent.