What Made Floyd Hard to Knockdown

[PRINCEKOOL]

He was calm and very aware of his surroundings under fire 'Even when he was hurt his decision making skills, where very good'. You see fighters do silly things when they are hurt, and compound the situation 'Mayweather limited those mistakes'.

Against Mosley, I think Mayweather was just too strong. Mayweather's physical strength was underrated, by the time he fought Pacquiao he was quite weak compared to his former self.

[Real King Kong]

Your posts aren’t being read but I will respond just to insult your wet dog smelling self. Either state your country or I’m not reading cave boy.

you can't help yourself. **** you and your pre-emptive straw man. you've proven yourself inept. when the conversation steered in a direction where your ready made rhetoric no longer provided you the answers, you latched onto this country bs like a life preserver. keep it in the other thread.

[Goldie]

you

Lol at geico caveman still talking.

[JK1700]

There’s a great Fighthype interview with Andre Berto where he breaks down what it’s like to fight Floyd. I’ll have to find it and post it for you guys but it’s brilliant and he really breaks down how difficult it is and why/what it’s like etc. Bare in mind that he fought the “TBE” version of Floyd when his reflexes/power had deteriorated quite a bit. Imagine fighting him 8-10 years before in 2005-2007? He was an absolute monster back then and even better at 130 and 135.

[famicommander]

1. He didn't get hit
2. When he got hit, it usually wasn't clean
3. When he got hit cleanly, he turned out to have a pretty good chin on him
4. Excellent balance
5. Excellent endurance

[garfios]

Floyd fought and beat many good fighters but was only knocked down once in his career by Zab. It was a flash KD that got him due to balance. The man wasn't hurt at all.

Floyd would sometimes strike with his chin in the air. Yet no one ever knocked him down by hurting him.

Shane, Maidana, and Corley came the closest to knocking Floyd down by hurtinghim but no cigar.

judah knocked him down.

[JK1700]

Basically what Berto pointed out as the main thing that makes him so hard to fight is that other fighters think offence first then defence second while Floyd thinks defence first and offence second. This makes a lot of sense when you watch him and makes it pretty much impossible to hurt him.

You might catch him with one shot like Maidana in the 2nd fight or Mosley but when you do he knows how to take a step back, recover and get himself right. You never get a chance to follow up and it’s extremely hard to get him in any case because he doesn’t initiate, he waits, sets traps and then reacts to what YOU are doing.

A lot can be learned from that. Not just in boxing just in life. You will always have the advantage over people if you wait for them to react first then think and make your move. Plain and simple though Floyd was/is just a lot smarter than everyone else in the boxing game. Not just other boxers but other promoters, everyone. He outsmarted everyone from other fighters, networks and promoters to the media, the UFC, I could go on and on. We won’t see anyone like him again. A once in a lifetime athlete.

[JK1700]

It says it all that when the guy just got hurt in a fight people went CRAZY. They don’t talk about the 10 rounds where Floyd beat the crap out of Mosley and used his face for target practice. They just talk about the one moment Shane had in the fight. Think about that. Other fighters get rocked like that in every other fight nobody even mentions it. Just Floyd getting buzzed was a huge deal. That’s how great he is. He’s not allowed to get hurt like other fighters do.

There’s never been a fighter held to higher standards. If a guy won more than 2 rounds against Floyd people called for a rematch (Maidana). Cotto lost 10/12 rounds and people praised him for “pushing” Floyd. It’s crazy and tells you everything you need to know about how great he was. Just hurting Floyd was a victory in of itself and if you win over 2 rounds you deserved a rematch. Lol.

[Real King Kong]

Lol at geico caveman still talking.

i'll let it go for you since your incapable. last word doe...

[Real King Kong]

1. He didn't get hit
2. When he got hit, it usually wasn't clean
3. When he got hit cleanly, he turned out to have a pretty good chin on him
4. Excellent balance
5. Excellent endurance

this about sums it up. I'd add his overall positioning and control of distance. even when he didn't just step out of range, his defensive movements were relatively small.