Mayweather-Canelo was a glorified fencing match

[johnm is...]

People need to understand, Floyd doesn't fight in a phone booth. He boxes. Brilliantly, I might add. When he's moving around the ring, he's out boxing his guy. When he stands in front of him, he's STILL out boxing his guy. And he's doing so without taking much punishment. The majority of people are too ****** to realize what they're seeing.

Doesn't matter anyway. When he stands in front of Mosley, gets hit twice, and stands in front of Cotto and gets caught by a few jabs, people say his legs are gone. So he moves around the ring and people say he's running.

The Jury has returned with a verdict. Haters gonna hate.

[Carpe Diem]

I'm tired of the "He's scared to get hit" excuse. Who really wants to be hit repeatedly? Fighters like Margarito, Rios, ect gets hit because they don't have a choice. If they had the defensive skills to avoid punches, I'm sure they'd choose to stick and move.

[johnm is...]

I'm tired of the "He's scared to get hit" excuse. Who really wants to be hit repeatedly? Fighters like Margarito, Rios, ect gets hit because they don't have a choice. If they had the defensive skills to avoid punches, I'm sure they'd choose to stick and move.

Right. Like they're getting hit because they like it. Or these idiots actually believe they "want to give the fans an exciting fight".

Bull-shit. They're just not good enough to get out of the god damn way.

[RIpitRon]

I think this is the casual belief of who Floyd is, he doesn't know what Floyd did, he knows what the media claimed.

I'm tired of the "He's scared to get hit" excuse. Who really wants to be hit repeatedly? Fighters like Margarito, Rios, ect gets hit because they don't have a choice. If they had the defensive skills to avoid punches, I'm sure they'd choose to stick and move.

REALLY?

I mean from so many posters on here I thought it was hit once and then get hit once and just trade punches, and he who is still standing wins? WTF was I thinking? For some reason I have been under the impression for the last 35 yrs that the sport was about hitting and not get hit?

Thank you for converting me from rational to ****** with 1 post!

[Frank Ducketts]

People need to understand, Floyd doesn't fight in a phone booth. He boxes. Brilliantly, I might add. When he's moving around the ring, he's out boxing his guy. When he stands in front of him, he's STILL out boxing his guy. And he's doing so without taking much punishment. The majority of people are too ****** to realize what they're seeing.

Doesn't matter anyway. When he stands in front of Mosley, gets hit twice, and stands in front of Cotto and gets caught by a few jabs, people say his legs are gone. So he moves around the ring and people say he's running.

The Jury has returned with a verdict. Haters gonna hate.

What else needs to be said?

[bojangles1987]

Not even a real boxing match or fight. Mayweather knows it too.

I don't get it. He stood in front of Alvarez half the fight, backed him up at times, crushed him with hard punches, swelled his eyes up, and had a couple times where he was throwing and landing at will while Alvarez covered up on the ropes.

How in the world can anyone say Mayweather was running in this fight?

[johnm is...]

I don't get it. He stood in front of Alvarez half the fight, backed him up at times, crushed him with hard punches, swelled his eyes up, and had a couple times where he was throwing and landing at will while Alvarez covered up on the ropes.

How in the world can anyone say Mayweather was running in this fight?

Because people have NO idea what they're watching. None. At all.

[Frank Ducketts]

Boy if Floyd starts throwing the blazing left hook again like he did against Canelo, that 6 fight deal is going to truly be easy money.

[bojangles1987]

Because people have NO idea what they're watching. None. At all.

Surely they know the difference between running and standing still? I mean, they understand the basic rules that define movement, right?

I mean, if you're going to accuse Mayweather of running use a fight where he actually did. Guerrero was more of a "he ran" fight than Alvarez was.

[Carpe Diem]

All Mayweather fights are glorified sparring sessions. He's too scared to risk getting hit.

I agree 100%. He should fight down to his opponents level just to make the fights competitive and give them the chance to win.