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[QUOTE=BennyST;4693289]Basically I believe it is very possible that Mayweather wins while playing the aggressor.
Like he did against Judah huh? Sorry, I couldn't help but find that funny. Did you read that part about comparing it to the Judah fight in my post? Maybe you're being sarcastic. I don't know.
If Mayweather becomes aggressive and leads against Pea then it makes it easier for Pea. It makes it more his fight. Adjusting and becoming more aggressive against Judah is one thing, but doing the same thing against Pea is entirely different. I knew that someone would bring that point up. "He'll adjust just like he did against Judah and then knock him out!"
Pea might not have had great power but he most definitely had enough to make any fighter that's ever fought respect him. He had enough to make Chavez respect him and he also had enough to make Nelson respect him. If anyone can beat Nelson while on the back foot, and beating him on the inside too, then they not only have freakish skills, but they also need to have enough power to make him respect them. Mayweather could never walk through Pea, if he tries it becomes a convincing UD instead of a close UD.
Anyway, for those wanting to compare this to the Judah fight....You can't! Judah, for one, was easy to catch for anyone with good accuracy, patience and a decent straight right. Hell, he was blistered by Clottey's straight right much worse than Mayweather did and he was landing it at will a lot earlier than Mayweather as well. Judah also fights very, very differently than Pea so there is no comparison to be made there either. As we've seen time and time again, Judah does not have the focus for a full pro fight in tough situations.
We could ask this question which is much more probable I think. Was it Mayweather's ability to adjust or Judah's lack of focus that lost him the fight? I personally think it was due to both but easily as much due to Judah's lack of focus and impatience. Baldomir adjusted to Judah! Tszyu adjusted to Judah in one round! Adjusting to Judah is not hard. It's no great feat of Mayweather's to have done so and certainly nothing to compare to fighting Pea.
One important thing though is that if anyone is thinking that Mayweather adjusts and then aggressively walks down Pea is looking at this fight wrong. If he tries that, he loses. He falls straight into what would make it the easiest option for Pea to win it.
I disagree with a few assesments here and these are possibly the reasons.
You mention Judah fight against other people. Clottey and Baldomir are just a different weight class than Mayweather and Judah, so I don't see the point (and still they were never landing as much with as much accuracy as Mayweather was from round 5 until the low blow). As for Zoo, he did not 'adjust', he studied Judah an found the time and place to land ONE of those right hands, this is what happens when you have KO power, figuring out your opponent amounts to landing one punch. Not only that, in that fight Judah definitely got ****y, it was there to see for everyone. The Mayweather fight looked very different, he simply ran out of answers. I will say it again adjusting to someone who is at least as big as you, and has a speed and power advantage *IS* hard. very hard.
You mention Pea's power. Pea can make you respect him, sure. Zab can knock you out... A very different ballpark when you have to fight aggressive.
Also you mention Pea's power against fighters who were smaller than him, the professor in particular. Mayweather wouldn't be the smaller in the ring.
All of this, to point out that Pea is not Judah, and while his ability would make sure that he never shuts down his output and slips, blocks many more punches he would have Mayweather a lot less cautious than Judah did and even more focused on landing rathen than defending, because
a) taking a power punch from Pea is not as bad ad taking one from Judah,
b) in a punch for punch exchange Mayweather is the guy with more power
Personally I take the Judah fight and the occasional rounds of other fights where this happen as an example of the fact that Mayweather is an excellent aggressor.Comment
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Flaws... this is like saying that a fighter with a standard defense has 'flaws' against righties because he doesnt get the same leverage on his right hand punches as the guy with the 'philly shell'... at the end of the day, there has been no trace of flaws on those fights.
I will say this, if I was a fighter going up against Pea, I would love to have the ability to fight different gameplans AND one of the most accurate right hands in the history of the sport.
If I was a fighter going against Mayweather, I would love to be almost a southpaw, but not quite a 'standard' one I would like to be a righty converted to southpaw (a lightweight Hagler) because the punches that can seem to get through easier on Mayweather are right hands from a southpaw stance, so better have power there.Comment
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fanboy kids like myself... LOL
sorry that it hurts your hater feelings that you cant quite a find a lightweight in history who would beat the fighter you hate so much *easily*, but wouldnt your being a boxing fan be more pleasant if you followed your eyes instead of yapping without a point denying the evidence of greatness in front of you?
It must suck to play expert and be immediately spotted as a 'hater'Comment
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