Mayweather vs Maidana
Man what a fight, I was completely wrong in how competitive it was going to be. Props to Maidana for taking the fight to Floyd and it's amazing how styles truly make fights. I personally think Canelo beats Maidana but Maidana's aggressive style showed up better vs Floyd.
I had it a draw but I will need to see it again and really sit down and score it more precisely. Maidana was just more aggressive, didn't stop coming forward and landed the harder, better shots. Have to give Mayweather his credit though, he really countered well later in the fight, but I also was disappointed with Tony Weeks.
If you allow Floyd to hold that much, and separate them immediately when he does hold, you take a huge part of Maidana's game away from him. Mayweather was holding inside, and if one arm is free, the ref needs to let them work.
Maidana also landed some low blows, I don't know if the were intentional, but he seemed frustrated from the holding. I honestly thought Maidana could have gotten the decision in the end, but I'm not mad with the outcome. It was a razor close fight, and I also have to say Robert Garcia and Alex Ariza have done a fantastic job with Maidana.
He came in incredible shape, and that pace is hard to keep for 12 rounds and he almost pulled off the huge upset. Of course there will be a rematch and I also think that Floyd looked a little older in this fight.
Kind of the way we saw Pac look vs Bradely the first time. Even though he won almost every round, it seemed that explosion wasn't there. I think Floyd's age caught up to him just a little bit, not saying he's anywhere near done but he is 37.
In the end it was a great night for boxing and my respect goes to Floyd. I really thought he had to earn his purse on this one, and it could have gone either way. I don't see Floyd fulfilling his contract of 6 fights. I truly believe the most important thing to him is keeping his "0" and fighting Maidana, Pac or even GGG really endangers that.
Great night of boxing though in the end.
What exactly does it matter how Canelo matches up against Maidana? Maidana is a small guy, a 140 pounder who barely can fight at welterweight while Canelo is a 154 pounder.
:lol1: Let me guess, you had the same scorecard as Teddy Atlas?
I did not score the fight while I was watching it cause I just expected a close fight and I did not care about a scorecard really. But when I watched it, I found it hard to believe anyone could give the fight to Herrera.
Collazo deserved the decision vs Berto
but he lost fair and square to Hatton
that's another "robbery" where the underdog outperformed expectations
Hatton fight woulda been a draw if not for a flash KD in the opening rd
had hatton wining by a couple rds
def thought he beat berto though
I felt the commentators were making it look like Collazo was winning the fight in rounds were Berto was landing the cleaner, better punches. I gave Berto quite a few of the early rounds whereas Lederman and Kellerman seemed to give a lot of those rounds to Collazo.
What do you guys have to say about HBO's commentary of this fight? I'd say it was pretty neutral, they weren't biased towards any fighter. Jim Lampley didn't exaggerate the effect of Manny's punches every time he landed one. Huge improvement over the first fight or even a few of the previous Pacquiao fights where Lampley did go overboard with his comments about Pacquiao's punches. Max Kellarman never had to intervene with his comments to keep Lampley or Roy Jones Jr. in check. Definitely an improvement from the commentating team.
I guess we can watch HBO fights with the mute OFF now?
I wanted to make that exact thread yesterday because it was so clear to me that the commentators were completely unbiased. I even had the exact scorecard as Lederman except for 1 round. But that is really strange to me: how do they suddenly seem to tell things exactly the way they happen in the ring while other times, they tell you things that are clearly not happening.