Mayweather: "50% Chance That Briggs Beats Wlad"

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

During a recent interview with Sportinglife, Floyd Mayweather, Sr, father of pound for pound Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and trainer of Oscar De La Hoya, feels that Shannon Briggs has a 50% chance to beat IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, should the two heavyweights clash in November. [details]

[MetalVomit]

At the end of the Forrest/Quartey broadcast, Lampley said that Briggs/Wlad isnt official, and that it's possible that Wlad is waiting for the winner of Rahman/Maskeav.

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

It's not official, but Steward has also told people it's on, so who really knows.

[guru]

judging by what they've said, it seems they're waiting to see if fight can be made with rock after this weekend... if not, then its briggs..

[Abe Attell]

I don't understand why people keep acting like Wlad's chin is made of glass: He has been stopped 3 times, yes, but look at how...Purity loss was from exhaustion; Sanders, well that was a beating, but at least from a fast, powerful, southpaw; and of course, Brewster, which was another fight Wlad ran out of gas.

When have you ever seen Wlad knocked out cold, like Lennox Lewis?

The guy took Purity's punches, though not sure exactly how hard he throws...was knocked down by Sanders, kept getting back up, then going down, but still was able to get back up at the end (though he had no chance of winning)...Sam Peter knocked him down, but Wlad got back up; he was also hit several times in the back of the head.

Maybe he is the equal to Diego's chin, but the heavyweight version: will to go down from solid shots to the chin, but will get back up.

[SalvaDominicano]

I don't understand why people keep acting like Wlad's chin is made of glass: He has been stopped 3 times, yes, but look at how...Purity loss was from exhaustion; Sanders, well that was a beating, but at least from a fast, powerful, southpaw; and of course, Brewster, which was another fight Wlad ran out of gas.

When have you ever seen Wlad knocked out cold, like Lennox Lewis?

The guy took Purity's punches, though not sure exactly how hard he throws...was knocked down by Sanders, kept getting back up, then going down, but still was able to get back up at the end (though he had no chance of winning)...Sam Peter knocked him down, but Wlad got back up; he was also hit several times in the back of the head.

Maybe he is the equal to Diego's chin, but the heavyweight version: will to go down from solid shots to the chin, but will get back up.

good post.

[Kid Achilles]

Mayweather Sr. has a 50% chance of being a ****** biased moron who hates whites, has no idea about either of the Klitschko brothers and proved that when he criticized Vitali's chin, one of the most proven heavyweight chins in recent years, and who probably sucks ****. Well he might not suck ****, but he's a ****ing biased idiot and he hates the Klitschkos.

With that matter attended to,

Purrity is a hard puncher, at least as hard as Briggs IMO. Sanders hit harder than Briggs does and that's pretty much a fact. Same with Peter. Briggs has decent power but it's way overhyped. He hurt Lewos early and then seemed unable to put a dent in his chin when he caught him later on. Briggs has good but not great power. He's a Rahman level hitter.

[psychopath]

Wlad is more recognized than Briggs but the realistic possiblity of both knocking each other out is so obvious. So indeed it's a 50/50 chance for both.

[GunStar]

Wlad is more recognized than Briggs but the realistic possiblity of both knocking each other out is so obvious. So indeed it's a 50/50 chance for both.

Agreed! Both men can punch, also both men can easily get hurt.

[Kid Achilles]

Difference is, Wlad has skills that Briggs doesn't have, Wlad has better stamina, and Wlad is more intelligent.