mayweather vs. marquez is not real reflection of how good mayweather could be against pacquiao, JM moved like in super slow motion video with his waterweight that he took on himself to be the welter and mayweather who visually was in similar physical shape as he was against mosley - about 150-153 pounds.
boxing is about of the two who comes into the ring to fight against each other, and all other comparisons are good but never gives a real picture, especially in this case when pacquiao-marquez was at 126/130 pounds and mayweather-marquez was at catch-weight 142 pounds, and don't forget - floyd had ignored weight limit and had 144 pounds in weigh-in.
joe frazier defeated ali, george foreman annihilated frazier, almost everybody thought that ali won't last to the end of the fight, and we know how this story has ended.
Nice talkin to a guy with Parkinson's dse... Roach do you know what the hell your talkin' 'bout?! just shut the **** up man! ur no the one fighting in the ring..
Freddie had 53 professional fights, he knows what he is talking about. Learn history, ignorant baby!
And don't forget to mention that Floyd never did fight at the catchweight, he came in at 146 and never tried to make the agreed upon weight. He could have if he wanted to, everyone in Floyd's camp said he could but he didn't respect the sport or his opponent and did what he wanted...
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i remember about it and posted it in #48 =)
Fair enough. I'm fine with my way. The body of the piece evaluates the lines.
and don't get me wrong - i'm ok with this way, you're doing great work, one of the finest series among all
everytime manny moochiai pacroid and roach open there mouths.it just tells me that they did'nt ever want to fight mayweather and the fact the superior skilled mayweather is better.they can't even focused on the same old pattern of come forward slow walking punching bags,shot,and weight drained fights.
really?!!!!
But he was 163 against Dallas!
Matthysse's probably being more careful because of the problems we heard about the week of the Peterson fight.
That was Showtime's typo. He was 153 pounds.
This is a series about contemporary fighters. They are all current/former as of the writing of piece.
I wrote it because I think that the time of a fight and boxers' status are more significant for the overall history than the time of the article.
For example, if this article appeared in 2003 year - there is no Glen Johnson in the list of Bernard's opponents but now he is there. The legacy of the boxer must be attached with his and only his accomplishments, but not with future achievements of fighters he has already faced.
Floyd always fights the WINNER while Pacquiao fights the LOSER. Sometimes even at CATCHWEIGHTS.
Mosley-Margarito - Floyd fought the WINNER
Pacquiao-Marquez - Floyd fought the WINNER (we all know he won)
what the s**t, he fought with Marquez in welter! and violated the rules by exceeding weightlimit in 2 pounds! if he is so good, why he didn't get to 135 and fought with JM in his prime category?
Pacroid didnt fight Castillo you douche.
thanks, cap! did he fight with Tyson?
the thing that i try to tell you - fight with Marquez is nothing but the money and he dragged JM to welter where Marquez is less that 50% of himself and moved like in super-slow-motion
Mosley-Margarito - Floyd fought the WINNER
Pacquiao-Marquez - Floyd fought the WINNER (we all know he won)
Judah-Baldomir - Floyd fought the WINNER AND the LOSER.
OK, and let's go with my view =)
Fighting with Judah who lost his last fight to Baldomir
Fighting with Oscar who lost 2 of his 4 fights (to Hopkins and Mosley)
Fighting with Mitchell who lost his title in prelast fight with Tszyu
Fighting with Corley who lost his last fight to Judah
Fighting with Augustus who lost 4 of his last 6 fights and has record 22-16-4!
Fighting with Marquez in catchweight (Floyd has never had fights in catchweights, aha!)
he has never had fights in jr. welter, fought in lightweight only twice; and after 2,5 year of inactivity he goes to welterweight against the guy who has KO victories over 20 of 23 his opponents and has three fights in 2009??? maybe he knows well what he does, but I don't want to see him on the canvas again
There are some mistakes:
1. current/former alphabet titlists faced in defeat - Roy Jones (L12)
but Jones was not titleholder at that moment - it was fight for vacant IBF title and first titlefight for both of them
2. current/former alphabet titlists defeated - Glen Johnson (TKO11)
this bout was in July 20, 1997 and Glen won his 1st world title only in February 06, 2004 in a rematch with Clinton Woods, and he was not "current/former titleholder" in this fight with Hopkins
3. current/former lineal world champions faced in defeat - 1st SD loss to Taylor
the same story, Taylor had his 1st titlefight when met with Bernard for the 1st time and there is no way how one can call Tylor "current/former lineal champion" at that moment
Cruiserweight is on FIRE!
Gassiev will be one of the best fighters at Cruiser, can he beat Lebedev in his backyard in Russia, who is the #1 at the weight, the guy with the best Resume in the division?
Very very tough fight. Lebedev has a chin and good skills.
Lebedev's backyard? Gassiev is from Russia and he has 15 bouts in 6 different cities in Russia.