Crunching the numbers : Mayweather's defense vs. Wright's defense

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again, the reason why Floyd's is the best to me is because he's the only guy who can switch his D from fight to fight or even round to round. Winky's in the same D all the time but Floyd uses different styles often. Against Zab when he started having trouble, he actually switched to the Winky defense and never lost another round. He's the only guy that can do that kind of stuff

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Those numbers put Wrights effectiveness at 1.69:1 while Floyd is at a lowly 1.42:1

Winky Wright is 16% better than Floyd Mayweather at hitting and not getting hit.

That means that if Wright and Mayweather both landed the same amount of punches in a fight, Wright would get hit 16% less than Floyd would.

Nice addition to the thread Shawn, I'm impressed.

Some great research and crunching there.

I think when you look at your numbers, you can see the impact that the fighter's style has on the stats : Since they're such stark contrasts.

Your numbers would change up a bit, if Floyd threw as many punches as Wright does. Or if Winky, limited his output like Floyd does.

It's really interesting to me.

I'd love to compare the thrown/landed/connect percentage stats of every single pro fight they've both had.

That would be the most conclusive finding of all.

Again, thanks for contributing.

[VaBoriKua 2.0]

in a poll thread earlier today, a user posed the question as to which fighter had the better defense : Ronald "winky" wright, or "pretty boy" floyd mayweather jr.

I noted in that thread that both fighters were defensive masters and that really, it was a matter of preference : Which style you prefer.

Floyd's elusive shoulder roll defensive style is certainly more eye catching than winky's high guard.

But i noted that the only way to know for sure which fighter had the better defense, would be to take 5 fights, from each fighter, and crunch the numbers.

This is what i've found in my research.............

ronald "winky" wright

shane mosley - in the first mosley/wright fight, "sugar" shane managed to land 166 punches out of a total of 624 punches thrown : A connect percentage of a mere 27%.

Wright, on the other hand, managed to land 250 punches out of a total of 756 punches thrown : A connect percentage of 33%.

shane mosley (rematch) - in the rematch, "sugar" shane managed to land 154 out of 642 total punches : A connect percentage of 24%, even worse than the first fight.

In the rematch, "winky" managed to land 273 shots out of 662 total punches thrown : A connect percentage of 41%.

felix "tito" trinidad - in the wright/trinidad fight, "tito" only managed to land 58 punches, out of a total of 557 thrown. A connect percentage of 10%. Pitiful.

Wright, on the other hand, managed to land 262 out of 756 total punches thrown : Landing at a connect percentage of 35%.

jermain taylor - in the taylor/wright fight, jermain taylor managed to land 163 of 703 punches, landing at a connect percentage of 23%.

Wright landed 226 out of 643, landing at a connect percentage of 35%.

bernard hopkins in the hopkins/wright fight, bernard hopkins landed 152 out of 640 punches thrown, a connect percentage of 24%.

Wright landed 167 out of 618 punches thrown, a connect percentage of 27%.

average the totals of those 5 fights together, and wright gets hit a total of 693 times in those 5 fights. Winky manages to connect on his opponets 1,178 times over the course of those 5 fights.

floyd mayweather jr.

jesus chavez - in the chavez fight, chavez only manages to land 182 of 925 total punches thrown - a connect percentage of 20%.

Floyd lands 197 of 456 total punches thrown - a connect percentage of 43%.

jose luis castillo (rematch) - in the rematch with castillo (i couldn't dig up the compubox numbers on their first fight at all.), jose luis castillo lands 132 of 600 total punches thrown - a connect percentage of 23%.

Opposite him, mayweather connects with 162 of 396 total punches thrown - landing at an impressive 41%.

carlos baldomir - against mayweather, baldomir manages to land only 79 shots out of 690 thrown. A connect percentage of a mere 12%.

Mayweather lands 199 shots out of the 458 shots he threw, gaining a connect percentage of 43%.

oscar de la hoya - oscar lands 122 punches of the 587 punches he throws in this one. Landing at a connect percentage of only 21%.

Mayweather lands 207 out of 481 punches thrown, keeping his connect percentage at 43%.

ricky hatton - against floyd, ricky is only able to muster 63 shots landed, out of a total of 372 punches thrown.

Mayweather, on the other hand, lands 129 out of 329 punches thrown : A connect percentage of 39%.

average the total of those 5 fights together, and floyd gets hit a total of 578 times (115 times less than wright in his 5 fights), while managing to connect on his opponet 924 times (landing 254 times less than wright, over the course of his 5 fights).

and that's how you crunch the numbers.

it was i who made that great thread earlier. Thanks for crunching the numbers. For me from the numbers that you got i picked the right guy which is winky wright.