Shane Had Those 2 Nice Punches

**bojangles1987** · 05-02-2010, 08:19 AM

No one should have any question about Floyd's chin after that second shot. That would drop anyone, and Floyd took it somehow.

**jri9d0** · 05-02-2010, 08:22 AM

The fight was a great chess match, like I said in a prior thread Floyd deserves his props for this.

Ray* · 05-02-2010, 08:23 AM

Just finished watching the fight again on skysports and the more you see it the more impress you get, apart from the shots landed in the second round Mosley couldnt or didnt really do anything else, I was more shocked at the 3rd round than anything else...Towards the 9 round it became a sad sight, It was like watching Cotto backpedalling against Pacquiao.

**Spray_resistant** · 05-02-2010, 08:26 AM

It was a hard shot from a hard hitting opponent.

It says that Floyd at the very least has a good chin but he is hit still too infrequently to say how good it is.

**DLT** · 05-02-2010, 08:31 AM

Originally posted by Spray_resistant

It was a hard shot from a hard hitting opponent.

It says that Floyd at the very least has a good chin but he is hit still too infrequently to say how good it is.

yeah and its always very early. What happeneds if someone catches him clean later in the fight? Problem is that it seems impossible to do that after he adjust and if you did land it, he probably takes it better at that stage of the fight then he would when he's a little cold & nervous early

**check hook** · 05-02-2010, 08:31 AM

Originally posted by bojangles1987

No one should have any question about Floyd's chin after that second shot. That would drop anyone, and Floyd took it somehow.

The second shot was a killer blow.....it hit him on the temple and snapped his neck to the side.....i have no idea how he didn't go down.....his legs crumpled but somehow his will kept him off the canvas......

**SplitSecond** · 05-02-2010, 08:33 AM

he got hit on the temple with the second shot, the canvas was probabley on the ceiling at that point

**sunny31** · 05-02-2010, 08:34 AM

I don't think those were the hardest shots I have ever seen shane throw, he has landed much better and harder against other fighters. They were good punches but pretty standard power punches from shane, the first right hand was a good shot, but to honest shane landed several shots like that against cotto, margarito, vargas, mayorga, and other fighters without that kind of reaction. The second punch was also a solid shot, but was hardly the biggest right hand I have see shane throw, he didn't even really turn his hips into it and get full power.

I was impressed by floyd's recovery his head cleared pretty quickly but I have always felt, having watched the zab fight, the corley fight in particular and now this that if you hit floyd flush on the chin he will get buckled, shane had a small window of opportunity but he smothered his own work and didn't take full advantage but you gotta give floyd credit too because his defences were good and his head cleared quickly.

**Spray_resistant** · 05-02-2010, 08:39 AM

Originally posted by DLT

yeah and its always very early. What happeneds if someone catches him clean later in the fight? Problem is that it seems impossible to do that after he adjust and if you did land it, he probably takes it better at that stage of the fight then he would when he's a little cold & nervous early

Its like when in the rare instances he gets caught with a shot like that he very quickly analyzes what went wrong and makes the adaptation so it doesn't happen again.

It must take a tremendous amount of focus to do that while so much is going on at once.

Shane Had Those 2 Nice Punches