Comments Thread For: Roach: Mayweather Tasted Defeat, He'll Taste It Again!

[ox805er]

Hello, I see you must be new to boxing.

Let me explain to you how this sport works:

You see, fights are judged on a round by round basis, each round being of equal value. Fights are not scored by total amount of punches thrown and landed.

Since you are obviously new to the sport I will give you an easy hypothetical scenario to illustrate my point:

Fighter A vs Fighter B in a 4 round fight:

Round 1: Fighter A lands 6 punches, Fighter B lands 3
Round 2: Fighter A lands 8 punches Fighter B lands 3
Round 3: Fighter A lands 8 punches Fighter B lands 4.
Round 4: Fighter A lands 5 punches, Fighter B lands 25.

Even though Fighter B has out landed fighter A in total punches, he lost 3 of the 4 rounds and thus loses the fight (even if you scored the last round 10-8 for Fighter B)

In regards to Mayweather vs Castillo I. For the first 6 rounds Floyd did a very good job of controlling the tempo, using his jab and out boxing Castillo in a low-tempo fight.

In the second half, the tempo of the fight picked up dramatically, resulting in a lot more punches being thrown / landed.

Regardless, round 1 counts just as much as round 7.

Now that I have educated you on the subject, please do your best to read up on the sport. You have a lot to learn, young grasshopper.

ok, let's switch it up a little.. how does the "A Side" fighter get credit for his punches landed and the "B Side" get's snubbed for the output.. what if this..

Round 1: Fighter A lands 6 (jabs) of 20 punches, Fighter B lands 3 (pwr) of 30
Round 2: Fighter A lands 8 (jabs) of 20 punches Fighter B lands 3 (pwr) of 30
Round 3: Fighter A lands 8 (jabs) of 20 punches Fighter B lands 4 (pwr) of 30
Round 4: Fighter A lands 15 (pwr) of 30 punches, Fighter B lands 10 jabs of 15

Oh.. "he's efficient".. "sharp shooter".. "economical".. but yet aggressiveness is not given credit..

[Street]

That's all boxingscene does. Chop an interview into 100 parts and dramatize the parts into cheesy headlines.

Interviewer: Is Manny more stressed out about this fight, has he shown any signs of fear?

Roach: Not really a fight always has a price to pay. Anything can happen. Manny can get hurt but he can hurt Floyd. N-n-next question.

Boxingscene headline:
Roach: Manny Will Make Floyd Pay, Hurt Him!

"Hall of Fame Trainer of Fighter of the Decade had some harsh words and a grave warning for Pound for Pound King Floyd Ma...."

Forum comments:
Simply tasteless. SMH.
Freddie smokin dat nazty **** again!
This guy don't know when to keep his mouth shut! He just don't know when to stop! You don't play boxing!
Ima **** my pants blah blah blah!

Hahaha So true. That is called giving it "The Spin" It is done alot in News Reporting and it is un-ethical for a reporter to take sides and only report half of the story.

[Fetta]

If it gets team pac hyped then so be it.

No excuses

[Gary Coleman]

You forgot that he fought Gatti instead of tougher fight vs Tszyu, Baldomir instead of Margarito, Maidana instead of Khan. Whether you wanna call it ducking or good matchmaking, Floyd doesn't always seek the toughest fights that the "fans want". That can't be disputed

^So many holes in this, but it's been beaten to death so many times...

[bambam182]

roach should die

[General STRUGG]

IM not sure this is news.
Its well known in the REAL boxing community (floyd diehard excluded ofcourse) that floyd aint undefeated.
deep inside floyd knows whats up.

[General STRUGG]

roach should die

stay classy.
STFU

[Sheppirino]

And here is the Roach quote of the day for 3/26/2015. Please tune in tomorrow for Roach's next quote titled "Floyd is a gutless coward who will not trade with Pac." Followed by "Floyd licks balls. I know because some guy from Mexico told me."

[antrecasner]

It's like Roach is talking to himself these days. He got one response out of senior and that's it. He's really making an @ss out of himself. If he's trying to get in anyones head he need to make sure it's not his own.

[arthurspooner]

I find it hard to believe that this is coming from Roach. Its too ignorant to be believable. He doesn't believe Mayweather won a national tournament??? Its well known Mayweather was the number 1 ranked featherweight in the amateurs so I doubt Roach is ignorant to that fact. Mayweather won many national tournaments from 106 to 125 and was the favorite to win the Olympics. Maybe Roach is just drumming up drama for gamesmanship or truly is ignorant about the amateur circuit.