Floyd Fans... is Shane confident or concerned.... your thoughts!!

[tacoboxer]

its no secret that Mayweather is the king of +/- stats.... no way shane gets a decision in this fight... if it goes to the cards, he is ****ed

If fight decisions were ONLY based on punch stats...... I would agree with you.

The problem is that thrown/landed stats that we see play no roll in the judging. Those are for fan knowledge but the judges aren't privy to those stats in the course of scoring a fight.

Judges establish their own punches landed opinion and use that as a part of the overall judging criterion in determining the winner of a fight.

Had Oscar stayed behind his jab in the 9th-12th rounds against Floyd and contiuned to press the fight a bit.... he could have possibly earned 2 of the last 4 rounds.

In doing so Oscar could have won the fight on the score cards..... and been way behind in the fight according to punch stats.

Mayweather cannot affort to give away early rounds like he did with Oscar. If he does you will see the biggest display of poor sportsmanship on Floyds part for claiming he won the fight according to punchstats but losing the fight on the cards for not engaging enough early in the fight.

[Chuckguy]

Judah had some success in getting through Floyd's defense early...... and to think that Mosley won't be able to test it as well is unreasonable.

Anyone saying that Mosley will be easy work for Floyd is being unreasonable.

The question is...... will Shane be able to land flush enough times AND will his punching power (being more than Judah...) be enough to get Floyd out of his comfort zone. Will this be the first time you see Floyd abandoning his plan and having to resort to opening up and trading with Shane..... possibly but I just dont see that happening.

No discredit to Shane but when it comes to ring smarts... I give the nod to Floyd... he is just too ring saavy to be drawn into someone else's fight.

I totally agree
We all know if Shane lands flush on May, may is gonna ride his bike a little more but if Shane can land flulsh on May a few times it could leave money just trying to survive and really hesitant to pull the trigger
thats what I would like to see but i really think its going to be a close fight and Mayweather is gonna pull it out in the end
UD 115-113 7rds to 5

[swizz]

i think mayweather might have gotten in his head he is doing more trash talking than he has ever

[Erico]

Shane has wanted this fight badly for a reason.. TO me he looks very very confident as if he knows he will win easier than people think. Shane love competition and people like him don't have fear or respect. They have a healthy denial that does not let them ever feel inferior to anyone. Refuse to lose.. So fear is not the issue for Shane.

[tacoboxer]

Shane has wanted this fight badly for a reason.. TO me he looks very very confident as if he knows he will win easier than people think. Shane love competition and people like him don't have fear or respect. They have a healthy denial that does not let them ever feel inferior to anyone. Refuse to lose.. So fear is not the issue for Shane.

Can't say I disagree with your observation but that raises the question..... will this love for competition and lack of fear work for Shane or against him once he gets into the ring?

If he has no respect for Floyd's skills will it effect his ability to keep his emotions in check or will he try to bully Floyd and end up fighting the kind of fight Floyd wants to fight?