Most Dangerous Threat to Floyd Mayweather?

[Matt Marvelous]

lol didn't Corey Spinks get knocked the **** out by Zab Judah?

[Don Johnson]

lol didn't Corey Spinks get knocked the **** out by Zab Judah?

He boxed him to a clear decision the 1st fight. He just couldn't make the weight anymore. The man is 5'10" and was fighting at 147. I believe he is one of the Few fighters today that can beat PBF. Look at the spinks-Taylor fight. He outboxed Taylor and wasn't Ko'd by a man that dwarfs Judah. This proves that either Spinks couldn't make 147 anymore, or Taylor is a bum. I believe taylor lost that fight by a round or two.

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I think Cory Spinks would be able to give PBF a run for his money. Cory has slightly better boxing skills, he's bigger, he's younger, just as fast, hits harder. He's a very underrated and underappreciated fighter.

in what skills compartment would Cory Spinks be better than Floyd Mayweather jr?

based on what you say that Spinks hits harder than Mayweather? Spinks has 11 stoppage victories, none of them against name fighters. some of them are due to cuts. Mayweather with only 1 stoppage out of 3 fights at 147 has a better KO percentage than Cory Spinks

Other than the above, I agree that it would be a tough fight for Mayweather.

[IchiBonDj]

Im going with Cotto, he just flat out batters and brusies fighters with everything he throws, blocked or not. If he got Mayweather against the ropes he'd hurt him to the body, shoulders and the odd time the head. IMO he'd break him down.

Im a Cotto fan and i'd pick him to beat Mayweather. That being said, I also wouldnt be surprised if Mayweahter beat him and everyone else on the list.

[Don Johnson]

in what skills compartment would Cory Spinks be better than Floyd Mayweather jr?

based on what you say that Spinks hits harder than Mayweather? Spinks has 11 stoppage victories, none of them against name fighters. some of them are due to cuts. Mayweather with only 1 stoppage out of 3 fights at 147 has a better KO percentage than Cory Spinks

Other than the above, I agree that it would be a tough fight for Mayweather.

I believe he is just as fast, is a better boxer, and hits harder cuz of course he's the bigger man. I don't really look at who they fought b/c they didn't fight the exact same ppl so there's no real way to measure. Spinks has fought the bigger men his whole career. 147-160. I considered Spinks to be on equal terms with most of the fighters in 147. Mayweather started all the way from 130 and he seemed kinda big for 130. He was awesome at that weight class perhaps he would've been able to take on Prince Naz or Barrera, Morales, Pacman, Marquez, or some others if he stayed.

[marciano207]

Paul Williams

I can only think of him because everybody else in his weightclasses are custom made for him
Cotto is Vulnerable to the right straight
Hatton comes straight forward
Mosley would be outclassed by him
Paquiao isnt in his weightclasses
everyone elese isnt good enough

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I believe he is just as fast, is a better boxer, and hits harder cuz of course he's the bigger man. I don't really look at who they fought b/c they didn't fight the exact same ppl so there's no real way to measure. Spinks has fought the bigger men his whole career. 147-160. I considered Spinks to be on equal terms with most of the fighters in 147. Mayweather started all the way from 130 and he seemed kinda big for 130. He was awesome at that weight class perhaps he would've been able to take on Prince Naz or Barrera, Morales, Pacman, Marquez, or some others if he stayed.

I still dont see

1) an example of something Cory does better than Floyd. (mind that i see very well that cory is very skilled, still...)

2) something explaining me how Cory has more power than Floyd, he is bigger but he stops less people (even restricting attention to 147), and some of those stoppages are due to the occasional righty vs lefty headbutt.

[FistoftheDallasStar]

I think Mosley will give Mayweather the toughest test to date with Hatton a close second.. My reasoning is that Shane has hand speed and power and can take a punch.. We all saw how long it took Floyd to get over Judah's speed. Shane has speed and ring smarts to go with it.. I don't think we would see a break down late in the fight with Mosely as we saw with Zab. I personally think Floyd can't hurt Mosley... it would be the same as the direct shots he gave to Oscar, it wouldn't faze him.

Hatton would have to have a spectacular night.. similar to the one he had with Castillo or better yet Kostya. If he can rise to the occasion and put pressure all over Mayweather he can definately win.. but he needs to be relentless like his life depended on it.

A toss up would be Mayweather versus Cotto.. Floyd could get on the bicycle all night versus Miguel and make it a boring fight that he would win. But if Cotto can catch and hurt Mayweather he can stop him. I've been impressed with Cotto's new found consistancy. If he finds something that works against Floyd he'll exploit it all night.. but still there are too many ifs to be sure in this one.

I actually think Williams would be the easiest opponent for Floyd.. Mayweather would just run circles around him and catch him with hooks all night long. I can actually see Mayweather stopping Williams in this one depending on how agressive Williams is.. The more agressive he is the easier it will be for Floyd to beat him.

[Addison]

The 'triangle' in Boxing never quite fits.. But I must say I'm a little surprised we have a poll that has Paul Williams here as Mr. Dangerous - yet on the poll on Cotto vs. Williams a strong majority favors Miguel over PW.. On this poll we have PW as the solid frontrunner to beat PBF - I'll assume that's primarily because of Paul's awesome size; yet Cotto is shorter, with shorter arms than PBF, and Floyd is an unquestioned majority favorite over Cotto..
Is this all just because of body punching?.. (I'd assume so..)

Or is this just another way of saying basically nobody can beat PBF and Williams would have the best shot, persay..

If so - that's what 'Allah' was for..


Anyways, I didn't pick Williams and don't see him as an awesome threat to Mayweather because of how clearly easy it was for Margarito to block, counter, and make miss completely Williams predictable combinations..

Margarito was blocking and slipping those shots with amazing ease.

Williams ain't all that.

[Don Johnson]

I still dont see

1) an example of something Cory does better than Floyd. (mind that i see very well that cory is very skilled, still...)

2) something explaining me how Cory has more power than Floyd, he is bigger but he stops less people (even restricting attention to 147), and some of those stoppages are due to the occasional righty vs lefty headbutt.

They didn't fight the same exact fighters so there's no way we can measure their punching power(Who Ko'd who faster) I still believe Spinks hits harder b/c he's the bigger man and he's taller than PBF which gives him that extra leverage against opponents like him.He hits hard enough to keep Taylor at bay, so that says something about his power. I will admit his isn't known for his power. He's not a big puncher by any stretch of the imagination but, he definetly hits harder than PBF.