Oscar Can Beat Floyd

[Animal Squabbs]

Nobody cares what you think. Floyd is faster, better handspeed, better pure boxer. Nobody in boxing today will outbox Floyd Mayweather. Only way Oscar wins is if Floyd breaks both hands, and can't move well at 154.

Oscar beat up bum ass Mayorga. That doesn't prove much.

Mayorga > Baldomir


Mayweather is in over his head. Hes a good fighter but he has gon up to far, he beats everybody from 140 and down. But at 147 Mosley would eat him up, and De La hoya is too much at 154. He is going to lose to Oscar and Shane, then maybe he'll bounce back with some wins and school Manny Pacquiao.

[-EX-]

I agree he beats everyone 140 and down. I think only Mosley could give him a hard time as long as Shane does what he does and doesn't try and outbox Floyd. Oscar will keep pressure on Floyd but Floyd won't let him **** the body, and has 1,000 times better defense than Mayorga, and has a lot of skills unlike Mayorga.

Shane>Oscar
Floyd>Oscar

I rather see Floyd vs Shane at 147 then the fight on May 5th.

Everyone is hyping Oscar up a bit too much IMO.

[American_Ninja]

For the record Meldrick Taylor only lost to Chavez in the REMATCH.

As for Oscar/Floyd, I feel that this would be a hard fight to call. When you look at each fighter, there are pro's and con's for both. With Oscar, you have the possible rust that has held up in the past, but may be apparent against a fighter like PBF. Floyd's got alot on his hands too, considering the move up in weight, and a fight against a guy who would whoop anybody on Floyds resume.

I do believe he lost the first time as well. Ko 12

[psychopath]

I'm not saying he will, but I think this is a fight for him to lose. There's too many people around Oscar (i.e. business associates, etc.), for him not to be able to get some good insight on dealing with Floyd. The first order of business methinks would be to find a way to get Floyd to fight Oscar's fight and not the other way around. Should Oscar prepare in a manner to take 3 to land 1? I see a Chavez/Meldrick Taylor kind of thing going down with this fight for some reason. Thoughts?

See the highlighted part buddy? That's exactly Oscar's problem. PBF has developed to be the smartest fighter around today that nobody has ever been succesful to make him fight the opponents fight plan.

Gifted with foot speed and hand speed PBF always dictates the tempo of his fights. He runs around opponents, back up, side steps, weaves and hit them with combo's while trying to keep pace with his movements.

The last time I saw PBF sort of rattled was when he fought Castillo some years back. Since PBF has tremendously improved since then let's see what DLH can do.

[Njord777]

I do believe he lost the first time as well. Ko 12

Yeah, I was just about to comment on that. It's a gross error in boxing history to not realize the outcome of the Taylor-Chavez fight. Ring magazine has called that first fight the fight of the decade a time or two.

To summarize Taylor was whooping Chavez, way ahead on the cards, but slowly the tides turned. He was told he needed to fight and win the last round by his corner- which was a gross error- and got knocked down with mere seconds left in the fight. Two seconds to victory, after being knocked down, Referee Richard Steele in one of the most controversial calls in boxing history, waved the fight off- saying Meldrick was too hurt to continue. Two seconds and he would have won...but instead he lost.

The subsequent damage he suffered ruined him as a fighter. He was pissing pure blood, had a fractured cheek bone..and some brain damage became apparent. He could never speak again properly.

When he faced Chavez again, years later, he was long gone from the gold medal winner he had been the first time around. He was stopped in 8.