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styles make fights. floyd is a greater fighter than williams, a limited fighter who wasn't hard to hit and who lost to worse fighters than floyd for sure.
that said, again, styles make fights. activity and 6'2" of southpaw with a good chin was a style that floyd avoided, and for good reason. i'd probably shade floyd, but not by a lot. that's the kind of fighter floyd avoided or whom his team avoided. they avoided margarito, too.
williams would be six inches taller than floyd, probably have 10+ lbs on him in the ring on fight night. but again, williams was not hard to hit and would probably eat punches all night without floyd having to work that hard to do it.
it would come down to whether or not floyd could win the rounds, and i think that he would. but floyd was moved in a manner to maximize long term profitability, and a big, hard working southpaw with an 80 inch reach was not the kind of fight haymon would have had him take unless the money was huge. and it never was a huge fight, or worth that kind of risk and deterioration.
if you break your hand you can still beat victor ortiz, robert guerrero, etc. you can tie those guys up if you need to. but you'll be hard pressed to impress judges when you throw less against a huge southpaw who throws 90 punches a round, and who is basically too tall for you to clinch.
that said, again, styles make fights. activity and 6'2" of southpaw with a good chin was a style that floyd avoided, and for good reason. i'd probably shade floyd, but not by a lot. that's the kind of fighter floyd avoided or whom his team avoided. they avoided margarito, too.
williams would be six inches taller than floyd, probably have 10+ lbs on him in the ring on fight night. but again, williams was not hard to hit and would probably eat punches all night without floyd having to work that hard to do it.
it would come down to whether or not floyd could win the rounds, and i think that he would. but floyd was moved in a manner to maximize long term profitability, and a big, hard working southpaw with an 80 inch reach was not the kind of fight haymon would have had him take unless the money was huge. and it never was a huge fight, or worth that kind of risk and deterioration.
if you break your hand you can still beat victor ortiz, robert guerrero, etc. you can tie those guys up if you need to. but you'll be hard pressed to impress judges when you throw less against a huge southpaw who throws 90 punches a round, and who is basically too tall for you to clinch.
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