JMM Gameplan: Tire Floyd and Batter him in the Late Rounds...

[-EX-]

What can you expect? Floyd didn't fake it?. 2 weeks more to go before the fight and there still a lot of tickets needs to be sold at that time. Then boooom here come the savior "THE RIB INJURY"..

Pure speculation...believe what you want tho...

[El Angel]

Weird he mentioned it all to the press before the fight, unless he wants Floyd to think this is the plan and go with something totally different.

[- JCHING -]

I'm pretty sure they have talked about a few different gameplans for this fight.

Either way, JMM will find a way whilst he's in the ring. He always does.

[tesla_power]

I think this is only one of many gameplans. I have yet to see jmm stick to a single gameplan the entire fight. However, the same goes to pbf. We'll see how well they adjust to each other come fight night.

[Boxer1590]

Did anyone see the Wheeler fight? I'm a big Marquez fan and I hope he beats Mayweather but.....

Wheeler was beating him. Then Marquez scored a controversial stoppage in the final round. Marquez didn't look good at all in that fight.

but I doubt Marquez was in as good of shape/trained as hard, and was as focused as he is in this fight. Plus he's a better fighter now and more experienced. I'm just saying though.

[Roxas]

definitely the dumbest plan I've heard for a while......

[Jimwell Duran]

"We are working on the same game plan for Mayweather that we used against Julian Wheeler, one of Juan Manuel's first fights in the United States," Beristain said through an interpreter. In 1995, Marquez took on Wheeler at the Great Western Forum, and scored a TKO in the tenth and final round. A former U.S. Olympian and U.S. National champion, Wheeler was listed as 5'8" ½, but when he stepped into the ring, TV announcer Tom Kelly said, "Marquez is decidedly shorter, and in fact listed as 5'7". I would think Wheeler would be closer to 5'10" from the look of him as they stand out there." Wheeler also had a freakish 74-inch reach—almost unheard of for a featherweight—which is two inches longer than Mayweather's.

So how did Beristain neutralize Wheeler's size advantage? He devised a strategy in which Marquez would tire out Wheeler and then batter him in the final rounds. He had Marquez stay in the middle of the ring and not move around except to pivot. This forced Wheeler to constantly expend energy while trying to square off with Marquez and kept him dancing on his toes all night.

The strategy paid off in the closing rounds when the wheels started to come off for Wheeler. In the final round, Wheeler's legs looked leaden and his gloves seemed to be moving in slow motion. Marquez pounced, landing virtually everything he let fly. In the final minute of the fight Marquez tattooed Wheeler with a four-punch combo that wobbled the bigger man's knees. Wheeler, who had been described by Kelly earlier as "a magnificent boxer," was reduced to looking like a punch-drunk wrestler. With five seconds left, and Wheeler still grabbing the referee—somewhat controversially—stepped in and stopped the fight.

http://www.hbo.com/boxing/events/200...ezprofile.html

Floyd always dances around the ring and never gets tired. That plan will not work! FLoyd by KO, 9 or above.

[JM1]

im not impressed with their gameplans. first they said jmm will pressure floyd, that wont work. now they say that they will try to tire floyd? again, that wont work. hope all of these are just a bluff

[Spacey1991]

I understand him saying he wants to bring the fight to Floyd, cause they has been many fighters tactic because Floyd is a very good Boxer so it is pretty unlikely that JMM could outbox him... along with a lot of fighters would find it hard, so they try to bring the fight to him, so I get what he means by bringing the fight to him and trying to batter him in the later rounds.

But, I don't think his plan on tiring Floyd is a very good idea, Floyd has great stamina and stays in shape, yeah he might be rusty a little but its still true that he does keep in good shape... so I just don't think it is a good idea to rely on tiring Floyd out, I mean... if it was a fighter that got tired a lot them maybe, but with Floyd I just don't think its a good idea... cause in his fights he has had great stamina... obviously though the layoff might affect him to be fair.

[Spacey1991]

im not impressed with their gameplans. first they said jmm will pressure floyd, that wont work. now they say that they will try to tire floyd? again, that wont work. hope all of these are just a bluff

To be fair though, bringing the fight to him is one of the best choices... I seriously can't see him outboxing Floyd, I mean JMM is a great fighter in his own right... has loads of experience and is a smart fighter, but I still don't see him outboxing Floyd though (but I guess you can take the layoff into account) but you are right... relying on him tiring really is a bad idea IMO.