Originally posted by champion4ever
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When Floyd fought Juan Manuel Marquez, Marquez was really a super-bantamweight with only one year fighting as lightweight (135 pounds).
Yet for that fight, Floyd made JMM, who was HARDLY a 135-pounder, go up to a 144-pound catch weight. And in the weigh-in, Floyd had the nerve of coming in weighing 146 pounds and simply paying a fine, vs. 142 pounds of a flabby, out of shape and puffed-up Marquez who was really hardly a lightweight and had to fight a natural welterweight in top shape.
On fight night Floyd looked huge and ripped vs. Marquez. Floyd was easily 10 pounds heavier, way more muscular and still, he couldn't even knock out such extremely smaller, flabby and out of shape opponent. And BTW Floyd took bunches of beautiful but weak JMM combinations to both his face and body, actually more combinations than he has taken from anybody including Pacquiao, that of course the sold-out judges never credited to JMM, same as Compubox which is a joke as well.
Fair is fair, JMM had to fight an opponent who was at least two divisions bigger than him and in way better shape than him. Yet JMM never backed down. If Floyd is supposed to be so good, he would fight GGG at 154 or 155. After all, he did fight a green, inexperienced and drained Canelo at 152, didn't he? And worse off, DIDN'T HE FIGHT DE LA HOYA AND COTTO AT 154, previous to fighting Canelo???
The Mayweathers are TERRIFIED of GGG. They have always been. They chose to fight a drained and inexperienced Canelo instead and it did pay off. Today, if Floyd fought Canelo at 154 or 155, he would get KO'd I'm sure. And if he fought GGG he would get murdered, not only KO'd. Floyd will never ever be at the level of Leonard, Duran, Hagler, Hearns. Those guys were willing to fight anyone within two divisions of their comfortable weight. Hollyfield and Tyson both fought guys 30+ pounds heavier than them several times and yet, they showed no fear.
Mayweather Sr. has just admitted GGG is a better boxer than his son, using "size" as an excuse, to his convenience, a thing that he never used when his son fought JMM. What if the fight had happened at lightweight instead of welterweight at that meeting?
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