Gotta hand it to crazy Augustus, he came to fight and turned the fight into a brawl. It's funny to see a guy clowning Mayweather and taunting him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WSB0NW_pI
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Gotta hand it to crazy Augustus, he came to fight and turned the fight into a brawl. It's funny to see a guy clowning Mayweather and taunting him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WSB0NW_pI
Entertaining fight. Love watching pre-"Money" Floyd...such amazing movement and he mixed it up more.
It never gets mentioned in the who hurt Floyd debates but I think he stunned Floyd quite a bit around 40 seconds into the 3rd. Definitely a fun fight. A bigger punching Augustus would be exactly the type of fighter I'd pick to beat Floyd. He's so damn unpredictable.
Isn't is Emanuel Burton ?
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Love this fight, it's one I re watch now and then. Hard to believe this was Floyds last opponent before Corrales, he was much sharper for that. I get a kick out of the venue and production as well, it looks like some low budget pro wrestling show. Believe Floyd was without a major promoter or TV deal at the time. Also, I never hear the actual weight announced for the fight, anyone know? Floyd had never fought above 130 and that's where he fought Corrales of course, but Augustus was 140 basically his whole career.
Yeah his crazy style really made Floyd uncomfortable, if he was a huge puncher who knows what could happen. Floyd said in the past this was his toughest fight.Quote:
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Augustus was really like Freddie Pendleton in that he had that decieving record that didn't really give an accurate indication of his skill.
I'm a pactard and don't care for Floyd but I can't help to like him when he is in the ring. What a master. he makes opponents pay for missing him, his combos are incredible, damn, I hate the guy
Both fighters weighed in at 134. It was a non-title fight that took place on HBO's Saturday morning boxing show KO Nation. It was paired with Lamont Brewster fight against Charles Shufford. It was an entertaining, one-sided fightQuote:
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That was the first time I have seen that, it was a good fight. Floys standing more and was quality countering.
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Well they say you have to seperate the art and the artist. I dislike Floyd as a person because a lot of what he says and does is very distasteful to me.
But as a boxing fan, you have to love Floyd the boxer, because nobody has done it better than him.
People forget about the fact that Floyd, at the lower weights and before all the hand issues, was actually an aggressive boxer-puncher with a very high KO ratio.
Great fight to watch...
It is an amazing movement he has.Quote:
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Incredible reactions.The way he can land and drop the same shot into his opponents arm and disrupt the opponents counter is masterful. Also that left elbow as a stopper and a deflection tool so he can remain in tight and have his arm still loaded so just he shifts slightly behind the in shots for more power is all genius.
That said Burtons frame is slightly smaller and Floyd is born with a chin and the sharpest reactions so I dont think this guys power ever had him in any doubt so we got to see him put on a show of sorts by remaining on the inside for most of the fight instead of side stepping or disengaging which he is also masterful at if he is leery on some other fighters power specially in early rounds.
Makes me wish Kostya and him met around this era right when Kostya was still a boxer/fighter and chose his timing when to throw a bomb right down the chute and when to brawl or go into fighter mode and when not to, better than he did later on once he chose tough fighter over crafty boxing.
Floyd/Kostya would have been a great fight. Floyd called him out numerous times, I'm not sure why it never happened. I guess it didn't work out timing wise.
Did Floyd want him to come down to 135? Cause he appeared to jump 140 once he moved on it was to 147 154 147.
Would have been nice @anywhere, but I think opposing promoting and all that shit was in the way.
I remember Kosyta calling him to action too at one stage.
Sometimes I think they all do that "time to call someone out' into a microphone; not over the phone trick.;)
Get the fan base talking, keep everyone interested.
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If KT had beaten Hatton I think it would have happened. I remember a training video where Floyd said "We gotta go get the great Kostya Tszyu next(turns to the camera) Tszyu I respect ya man but we gotta do this". Floyd always had great respect for KT. Similar to his respect for Cotto and Marquez. I don't like the "Money" character one bit but I have great respect for similar fighters.
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Nice. Maybe also because Tyszu KFTO PBF's friend Judah.
I tried to find that video with no luck. There are videos with Floyd saying he wants Tszyu, Mosley, DeLaHoya etcetera but the difference with the training video was there was something(and I can't remember what)in it that made it sound like it was lined up. I found lots of articles where both KT and Floyd were talking about each other at that time but both kept mentioning the Showtime/HBO problem.
I came back because one article I found, and I'm not sure how reliable "The Sweet Science is, discussed something interesting from the time I was not aware of. Gattis people were trying to squash the Floyd fight(I remember that) on the idea his legal troubles would interfere with the fight. According to that publication a back up plan was in place and arranged.(this was the part I wasn't aware of) if the Gatti fight didn't come off apparently Floyd and Cotto had a deal in place to meet that sumer instead.
I can't express how much I wish that would have happened.
Floyd v Gatti would be nothing in comparison to Floyd v Cotto.
Cotto and Hatton were ringside for the Gatti fight, and they kept talking about a potential fight with those two but neither seemed to be calling out Mayweather at the time.
With all respect to Cotto, I think that wasn't the right time for him to fight Mayweather, he was still way too inexperienced on the world stage. IMO he made HUGE improvements between 2005 and 2008 and really came into his own.
Although yeah, I do think it would have been a better fight than Floyd/Gatti.
I disagree, that was Cotto at his peak, he was starting to be drained at the weight which is why he moved up, but when he was at this weight he was a bulldog.Quote:
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Meh he was unproven at that weight and his best win at 140 was vs Malignaggi.Quote:
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I prefer the non-weight drained 147 Cotto who was smashing speeders like Zab and Mosley.
He did not really smash Shane, that was close. Zab gave Cotto a good fight but Cotto was ferocious at light welterweight.Quote:
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I prefer the non-weight drained 147 Cotto who was smashing speeders like Zab and Mosley.
Floyd vs. Tszyu would have been a great fight. Floyd always seemed to have a lot of respect for KT.