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The problem that many casuals and fans of action fighters have with Floyd is that Floyd wins fights by avoiding engagement and killing the action rather than imposing it. He prevents his opponents from building some sort of offense and in return does just enough to win the round one round at a time with a scoring punch here and there. He did it with Canelo and he did it with Pac. Is it effective?...Sure it is. Is it entertaining? For the most part no.
Lets take a look at his fight with Canelo. Was it one sided? Sure it was based on round by round scoring. The way many Floyd fans here were speaking the following day you would have though that someone who didn't see the fight missed the second coming of Floyd/Gatti when in reality it was far from. Analyzing round by round, Floyd won each round by landing a few more scoring punches in each round. Not hurtful or punishing blows, but scoring touch punches. Same thing with is fight against Pac. Never once did he hurt or have Pac in any sort of trouble. He won this fight by limiting Pac's offense with his defense while countering and landing a few more shots albeit not hard damaging blows in the rounds that he won.
Its like Floyd treats boxing like a game of flag football or 2-hand touch rather than full contact and has found a way to be the best at it. He turned a combat sport into a game of "tag you're it" and has mastered it.
I guess when you're labeled the best of your generation the bar is set a bit higher for you and rightfully so. Fight fans in general expect more from someone labeling themselves as TBE.Comment
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the cable bill is getting a one-sided ass whoopin next monthComment
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"When Mayweather beat pacquaio, It reminded me of when I beat George Groves in front of 80,000 people at Wembley Stadium."
- Carl FrochComment
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