We will never know how good margarito was didn't even get close to winning a fight since he been pinched with loaded gloves...one thing for sure he had a way better chin then kirland does
Well if he didn't even come close to winning without loaded gloves then perhaps the conclusion should not be that we haven't seen him at his best without loaded gloves, but rather that we have seen him at his best without loaded gloves, but that he simply he wasn't that good.
His persona has nothing to do with it. He knows people are annoyed by the fact Manny and Floyd still aren't facing eachother. He wants to avoid that people think he's ducking and choosing opponents everybody knows he would beat. He's doing everything he can to make people think that he's picked a good opponent. So it's just strategy.
I think this fight (win or lose) hurts Mayweathers legacy more than improve it. This is terrible. If this fight is on, people will point to it as evidence of Mayweathers ducking and i believe rightly so.
It was admirable that Malignaggi stayed so active in the fight and took the shots that he did. He got hit so hard at times that i was amazed he stayed upright. However there is a difference between what is admirable and who is actually winning the fight. I think a lot of people expected Broner to take him out of there in a few rounds. Broner didn't do that though and because Malignaggi did better than expected some people think he won it. However, eventhough Broners performance wasn't as dominant as expected he still clearly won.
The numbers show this aswell.... Punches thrown were in Paulie's favor, but punches actually landed were in Broners favor. If you couple this with the fact that Broner punches quite a lot harder and most punches landed by Paulie were jabs while most punches landed by Broner were powerpunches, then it seems obvious who won this.
I'm not too worried about the talent and such, not even much about the fights that are being made. To me boxing is starting to lose some boxers with some charisma that attract the people. Floyd and Manny are heading for the exit, but are still pretty much the main attractions. Most discussions are about them, emotions fly highest when it's about them. I see no other boxer atm who has that kind of potential except for perhaps Canelo, but he would need to start speaking English. Same goes for a lot of the other current talent imho.
It's a shame really that Mayweather and 50 cent pretty much hijack something that was meant for ALS to suit their own agenda whether that is fighting out a feud or something else entirely.
I was just thinking how floyd's best weapon is is elusiveness and defense, has there been any of his opponents that have tried to make him chase them instead of the other way around and would u think this would be a good strategy. Just look @ Lara and how he's longer and just as elusive therefore would make Floyd have to come after him and take more risk in order to win the fight?
I think his greatest weapon was his ability to adapt, which makes it very hard to beat him with 1 strategy. Usually after a few rounds he will adapt. The mere fact that Floyd defends well, does not implicate that he can't attack.
Last I checked body counts too. If you hit me once in the head and I cleanly hit you 5 times in the body, does that mean you win? Of course not. Believe me I thought Lara would win. I wanted him to win. As I was scoring I was trying to find all kinds of reasons to give Lara a round here and there. But I couldn't ignore canelo's combinations and the fact that he was much more active.
That's a faulty comparison, because Lara landed more overall. Your comparison would only make sense if Canelo landed five times more to the body than Lara did to the head... This is however not the case.
Lara stopped to punch to be honest, he didn't throw them as he was moving. He mostly punched and then ran.
As for effective agressiveness: He was snapping Canelo's head back pretty good in the fist part of the fight. Also in the middle of the fight Canelo looked like he was taking over the fight after the cut, but when Lara started to punch back more in round 8, you could see Canelo felt it and slowed down only to start back up again in round 12. If Lara's punches were really so ineffective as is being argued, then that would not have happened. I can see how the running was not helping the fight, but Lara still landed more regardless of that fact and seeing the way it impacted Canelo it was effective.
You could even argue the other way around: Body punching is mostly done in order to slow the other guy down. That didn't really seem to happen. The only thing that slowed Lara down was the cut. Lara had clearly lost his bearings a bit after that, but came back to his original gameplan after that with the same ammount of excessive running. The body punches of Canelo didn't seem to effect that fact. So how effective was the body work of Canelo really? The effective punches were the headshots, but Canelo hardly connected those.
Omg, i hardly know him to be honest but i did follow his status ever since i heard of his condition. I am genuinely shocked that he has passed this quickly, especially on his age. It frightens me that before he was diagnosed he said he was feeling fine and now only a few months later he has already died.
Rest in peace and my thoughts are with his friends and family.