Comments Thread For: Gonzalez: I Saw Abner Mares Was Worried Before the Fight

[citynation]

mares is amir khan part 2. This reminds on when prescott ko'ed khan....

[MDPopescu]

Mares is not overhyped, stop bashing these fighters because they got beat. Gonzales is a tough fighter. Mares to me, just got careless and caught. If he would have held on I think he would have made it out of the round. Then who knows, But man how gracious he was in defeat speaks volumes. He will be back and he will learn from those mistakes ! With a resume like his, no he did not get exposed, stop hating .

... These were already said here.
... Mares being careless, then hit flush, then not clinching, etc... All in one minute and a half...

[PunchyPotorff]

What is it that you see that makes you think JR is a little bit worried? First off the key to Mayweather that everyone seems to be missing is that 1) he trains year round 2) he fights at his walking around weight 3) he is 36 going on 37 years of age - where people really need to be giving the man his props is that, you have to be on your A game because he sure as hell is not going to defeat himself, every fighter he has fought over the past 17 + years have been on their A game ! its like the bulls of the 90's, every game teams are coming at their head from the raptors to the lakers etc.. so what it is that you may think you see might actually be you reaching a little bit because cats like mayweather and Hopkins, they fight the best that their opponent can possibly be on fight night because their opponents recognize the opportunity in front of them - and here's a quote from Mosley during a press conference when he was going to fight Zab Judah, and zab was at the Mic talking about how he has rededicated himself to the sport, and he is eating better, and training more seriouse yad yada yada, Mosley took the Mic and said I hope you are doing these things because I have been living like this since from day 1, I have the discipline to do this for myself and my career - powerful stuff - that is the difference between Mayweather and 95% of his opponents, you might see him at the BET awards, all star weekend, super bowl weekend etc, but better believe he gets his daily run in and he will be hitting that gym for a couple of hours a day also, cats at his level don't have fear just anticipation.

As for me, I think Floydie is a good boxer, but his going on and on with "I am boxing"... that's the problem. You can go on and on (and many fans do) about him being great. Newsflash: that is established. His huge ego is the problem. He isn't the greatest ever, and his habit of ducking the biggest challenges many times has proven it. And I'm not going into the long list of ducks. All that has been covered many times.

[HarvardBlue]

Mares hardly did anything wrong Saturday night. He was expecting a body shot, covered up his body, and got caught with left hook to the head instead. After that the fight was pretty much over. Even if he held on to survive the round he would have been blasted again because Gonzalez hits hard and Mares defense isn't that great. He was always able to over his lack of defense with determination but that doesn't always work. The lesson here, if there is any is to work on his defense. Effective movement might look boring but it will prolong his career.

[eternalfighter]

People that say Mares was overhyped don't understand this...when you fight tough opposition and don't pick and choose carefully...when you will fight anybody not just fighters below your weight class or hyped fighters, these are the risks. Mares means what he says when he says he'll fight anyone, he is not a business man he is a real fighter.