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Floyd imo is more of what i call todays fighters...Made fighters. Meaning, many of them were brought up very young, looking at what guys like Leonard did. They learned the technique, and the style to use speed, balance timing to help them pretty much be unbeateable to most fighters at a large part of their career.
The question we are waiting on for Mayweather, that Roy rarely allowed us a glimpse at this issue, what will he do versus a great fighter at his peak with a style that will force him to use more than speed, or boxing. Where is will test his ability to simply Fight!! That is what i see is missing from the Taylors, Jones, Mosley's etc....Fight that is the name of the game...boxing is great but in the end where is your heart, courage at.
Look at Mayweather, Taylor, Sweat Pea, Jones....These fighters use speed timing, reflexes to their advantage just as Leonard did and they simply look amazing. In fact, in Jones and Mayweathers case you can make a case that pound per pound their speed and timing is just as good if not better than Ray Leonard's. I think Roy was faster and Mayweather is just as fast pound per pound.
I think Mayweather is more technical than even Ray Leonard. He has certain parts of his fight game that are better than Ray's or at least equal too. That is his counters, his right hand is sharper. Ray's sometimes is looping in nature, somewhat sloppy sometimes. Mayweather, at the lower weight was simply dominating, look at how he did Corrales. Mayweather's defense is better than Ray's. Sometimes Ray caught right hands that would make make you and I cringe.
However, some of Leonard's shortcomings is what made him great. His getting hit with right hands, if you notice always, I mean ALWAYS resulted in Ray immediately responding with crisp hurtful counters. Even when Duran hit him, hurt him, Leonard in the 2nd round, came on in the end with his own counters. Even when he was old and out of retirement, when Hearns had him down, he came back later in the round. So Leonard's heart, courage, and that "thing" inside of him is something that Mayweather has not shown us "yet".
The question we are waiting on for Mayweather, that Roy rarely allowed us a glimpse at this issue, what will he do versus a great fighter at his peak with a style that will force him to use more than speed, or boxing. Where is will test his ability to simply Fight!! That is what i see is missing from the Taylors, Jones, Mosley's etc....Fight that is the name of the game...boxing is great but in the end where is your heart, courage at.
Look at Mayweather, Taylor, Sweat Pea, Jones....These fighters use speed timing, reflexes to their advantage just as Leonard did and they simply look amazing. In fact, in Jones and Mayweathers case you can make a case that pound per pound their speed and timing is just as good if not better than Ray Leonard's. I think Roy was faster and Mayweather is just as fast pound per pound.
I think Mayweather is more technical than even Ray Leonard. He has certain parts of his fight game that are better than Ray's or at least equal too. That is his counters, his right hand is sharper. Ray's sometimes is looping in nature, somewhat sloppy sometimes. Mayweather, at the lower weight was simply dominating, look at how he did Corrales. Mayweather's defense is better than Ray's. Sometimes Ray caught right hands that would make make you and I cringe.
However, some of Leonard's shortcomings is what made him great. His getting hit with right hands, if you notice always, I mean ALWAYS resulted in Ray immediately responding with crisp hurtful counters. Even when Duran hit him, hurt him, Leonard in the 2nd round, came on in the end with his own counters. Even when he was old and out of retirement, when Hearns had him down, he came back later in the round. So Leonard's heart, courage, and that "thing" inside of him is something that Mayweather has not shown us "yet".
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