Mayweather vs Augustus: Great fight!

[Andre]

Entertaining fight. Love watching pre-"Money" Floyd...such amazing movement and he mixed it up more.

It is an amazing movement he has.
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.

[Andre]

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.

[Beanflicker]

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.

[Andre]

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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[Ron Swanson]

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.

[Beanflicker]

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.

Nice. Maybe also because Tyszu KFTO PBF's friend Judah.

[Ron Swanson]

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.

[Master]

Floyd v Gatti would be nothing in comparison to Floyd v Cotto.

[Beanflicker]

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.

[Master]

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.