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the only thing about chico vs floyd, in chico's defense, is that in that fight leading up to it, chico was dealing with his personal issues and had a jail sentence hanging over his head, which would make it almost impossible to focus straight on anything else other than court, and also chico was leaving 130 because he couldn't make weight there anymore but floyd demanded that the fight be at 130 or he wouldn't fight. corrales being the warrior that he is and was took the fight and said that he would make weight no matter what, and he did and he paid for it because it showed that he was drained in his performance, im not saying that he would've beat floyd because style wise floyd had him beat, but if the fight was at 135 i think that it would have been a completely different fight and not so one sided.
this is another thing about floyd in this fight against chico, i remember distinctly floyd saying it loud and clear that the fight would have to be at 130 or it wouldn't happen, i remember floyd saying that he would never fight past 130 because that wasn't his natural weight. because if you remember floyd fought augustus at 135 his fight before chico and although he won he had a hell of a time and was getting tagged in there against augustus. emanuel was using his size against floyd pretty well and laying some hard shots on him, after that floyd said he wasn't going to fight above 130. well after getting the negotiations his way and getting the fight against chico in his favor, and after beating chico, floyd moved up in weight after 2 more fights at 130 to fight castillo.
so what does this all mean, in his fight against corrales floyd used negotiating as leverage (like he should) to have an advantage over corrales in their fight, which gave him a better than usual chance at beating chico, which like i said style wise he had chico's number, and with no disrespect to chico i truely believe that. but you can say that chico was pound for pound at the time when they fought but it can be argued that chico was already grown out of that weight class and had to move up due to natural growth.
mayweather has fought tough guys and tough guys that were in their prime, only thing is floyd has had those guys beat before even stepping into the ring due to the large gap between his natural talents and discipline and his opponents talents and discipline, basically floyd was the favorite in all those fights, logically speaking, he was supposed to beat them guys.
chico being the exception, and he vested him too.
now as far as hatton from what i remember is that hatton was supposed to lose to most of who he's fought and he has won. and although kostya had a long time out of the ring before he fought hatton, but tszyu was only taking big fights just like most champs are doing these days verses fighting at least 4 times in one year and the hatton fight was one of those fights, so you know kostya came prepared to fight, it wasn't like he was shot going into the fight, kostya was in the top 5 of the pound for pound in overall boxing at the time him and hatton fought, floyd and hatton i think are fairly matched you can scrutinize both and make valid points for both and make cases against both, but i personally think that hatton has had the harder opposition because he went into fight where he was supposedly going to lose and he's won, mayweather is expected to beat all who is in front of him and there is a reason for that because he is highly talented and has had his opponents beat with talent alone.............
the only thing about chico vs floyd, in chico's defense, is that in that fight leading up to it, chico was dealing with his personal issues and had a jail sentence hanging over his head, which would make it almost impossible to focus straight on anything else other than court, and also chico was leaving 130 because he couldn't make weight there anymore but floyd demanded that the fight be at 130 or he wouldn't fight. corrales being the warrior that he is and was took the fight and said that he would make weight no matter what, and he did and he paid for it because it showed that he was drained in his performance, im not saying that he would've beat floyd because style wise floyd had him beat, but if the fight was at 135 i think that it would have been a completely different fight and not so one sided.
this is another thing about floyd in this fight against chico, i remember distinctly floyd saying it loud and clear that the fight would have to be at 130 or it wouldn't happen, i remember floyd saying that he would never fight past 130 because that wasn't his natural weight. because if you remember floyd fought augustus at 135 his fight before chico and although he won he had a hell of a time and was getting tagged in there against augustus. emanuel was using his size against floyd pretty well and laying some hard shots on him, after that floyd said he wasn't going to fight above 130. well after getting the negotiations his way and getting the fight against chico in his favor, and after beating chico, floyd moved up in weight after 2 more fights at 130 to fight castillo.
so what does this all mean, in his fight against corrales floyd used negotiating as leverage (like he should) to have an advantage over corrales in their fight, which gave him a better than usual chance at beating chico, which like i said style wise he had chico's number, and with no disrespect to chico i truely believe that. but you can say that chico was pound for pound at the time when they fought but it can be argued that chico was already grown out of that weight class and had to move up due to natural growth.
mayweather has fought tough guys and tough guys that were in their prime, only thing is floyd has had those guys beat before even stepping into the ring due to the large gap between his natural talents and discipline and his opponents talents and discipline, basically floyd was the favorite in all those fights, logically speaking, he was supposed to beat them guys.
chico being the exception, and he vested him too.
now as far as hatton from what i remember is that hatton was supposed to lose to most of who he's fought and he has won. and although kostya had a long time out of the ring before he fought hatton, but tszyu was only taking big fights just like most champs are doing these days verses fighting at least 4 times in one year and the hatton fight was one of those fights, so you know kostya came prepared to fight, it wasn't like he was shot going into the fight, kostya was in the top 5 of the pound for pound in overall boxing at the time him and hatton fought, floyd and hatton i think are fairly matched you can scrutinize both and make valid points for both and make cases against both, but i personally think that hatton has had the harder opposition because he went into fight where he was supposedly going to lose and he's won, mayweather is expected to beat all who is in front of him and there is a reason for that because he is highly talented and has had his opponents beat with talent alone.............
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