Why was Mayweather able to stand right in front of Canelo and walk him down?

[b00g13man]

Nah fam you may be confused. Those fights or polar opposites and its crazy for anyone to even put them in the same sentence. One was an ATG walk down spectacle,with people cheering! The other was a quiet, kind of aggressive Floyd, with Ali dying of boredom in the audience!

I guess we've got very different definitions, but that was the most aggressive I remember seeing Floyd in quite some time.

[MurkaMan]

I guess we've got very different definitions, but that was the most aggressive I remember seeing Floyd in quite some time.

I actually dont remember Floyd throwing too many punches against Shane. Not only that but the fight was extremely boring and quiet. He Bruce Lee'd him with fast shots, but it wasnt no whipping. I remember the Canelo fight, with Floyd from the opening round walking him down, throwing punches in bunches with people making noise the entire fight.

Allot of people may lie about the Mosley fight showing a more aggressive Floyd, because they may not want to admit that Floyd actually did more to a bigger, younger, more dangerous fighter in Canelo. Which is true!

But fight to fight, Floyd is different. Floyd had that performance cooked up and brewed for Canelo. Against Mosley, he didnt have that cooked up. He was extremely safety-first, and didnt take many risk!

[b00g13man]

I actually dont remember Floyd throwing too many punches against Shane. Not only that but the fight was extremely boring and quiet. He Bruce Lee'd him with fast shots, but it wasnt no whipping. I remember the Canelo fight, with Floyd from the opening round walking him down, throwing punches in bunches with people making noise the entire fight.

Allot of people may lie about the Mosley fight showing a more aggressive Floyd, because they may not want to admit that Floyd actually did more to a bigger, younger, more dangerous fighter in Canelo. Which is true!

But fight to fight, Floyd is different. Floyd had that performance cooked up and brewed for Canelo. Against Mosley, he didnt have that cooked up. He was extremely safety-first, and didnt take many risk!

Do me a favour and watch the fight again.

[Luilun]

Historically, Mexican fighters always fight at a weight well below their walk around weight.

One one hand, you can say if they're able to make the weight then them fighting at that weight shouldn't be a problem, but on the other hand, it begs the question, how much respect should a fighter receive for beating a naturally smaller fighter...

...not much imo.

Thats so ****** every fighter fights below their weight Gerald Mclemm weighed what 180 when at 160 Andre Ward 178 pound Gold Medalist but fights at 168 Shawn Porter 152 amateur fights at 147 you get my drift I can name a**** load more but why bother and Broner 155 pounds fight 130 and 135

[Lets_Get_It_On!]

then ran and held a little congressman with one arm...lol

So true. Floyd and his team laughed about Canelo's weaknesses and took advantage of taking away his ONLY advantage by demanding a CW.

I remember Floyd Sr laughing in an interview saying that he hoped that Canelo's game plan was to attack FLoyd because Canelo has stamina issues plus of course the CW will make that issue even worse.

Its like when they fought rusty as nails old Mosley. Their game plan was taking that all into account. Mosley struggled and gassed out.

[SplitSecond]

Floyd walked Canelo down?

I just remember two guys trying to box eachother and Canelo getting badly outclassed in that department. Old shot to sht Mosley probabley pushed Canelo back more, and feather duster Trout.

Not really anything great in standing with Canelo since all he really did till after that fight was stand right with you.

[-Antonio-]

Floyd did stand right in front of Canelo most the fight. That was one of his best performances for sure. I don't think Canelo knows how to fight any other way and that played right into Floyd's hands.

[FrankieClutch]

I got called crazy for saying it was an 8-4 fight.

As did I. I scored it 8-4 for Floyd and people called me blind lol

[FrankieClutch]

I guess we've got very different definitions, but that was the most aggressive I remember seeing Floyd in quite some time.

It was the most aggressive he's been in quite some time. He beat the dog sh.t out of Shane. That's Floyd's last performance where I am comfortable saying he "beat up" Shane rather than "outboxed" him (which he did both, but there's a difference).

[AllEyesOpen]

Mayweather knows when to walk a fighter down, usually when the fighter can't execute going backwards.

Canelo had the wrong game plan from the start, he didn't pressure and tried to outbox Mayweather. To be honest I was impressed with Canelo's boxing but against Mayweather it was not a good idea.