Will Floyd Mayweather Come Out Throwing Bombs to Shock Everyone?

[Beanflicker]

Floyd was only squeaking by Cotto and DLH and Hatton years ago and Manny destroyed these guys. Floyd is in for a hard days night.

Shouldn't we also compare how each man did against JMM, then?

[brocktonblockbust]

foo-foo Foo-Loid gets cold-cocked by the Pilipino Cock-Duster, he will dust his cock.

[erics44]

Floyd might get desperate, but I doubt it will be early on. Once he sees how tricky and quick Manny is, he is going to be covering up and relying on power. In a funny way, I can see it being a bit like Pac/Bradley 2. Floyd cannot keep up with the work rate or the combinations and so he is going to have to lay something big down the middle. Floyd doesn't hit hard, so I don't think he can keep Manny off. There is every chance Manny will destroy Floyd and everyone will be in shock. Floyd was only squeaking by Cotto and DLH and Hatton years ago and Manny destroyed these guys. Floyd is in for a hard days night.

If you think Floyd squeaked by those guy you don't get what he does. He was incompete control every minute of every one of those fights. I suspect you're being sarcastic though.

he wasnt in complete control against DLH

it was a close fight, he was behind until the championship rounds

[ruthless rocco]

CompuBox Punch Stats
Total Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
_____Landed 122__________ 207
_____Thrown 587 __________481
________Pct. 21%_________ 43%
Power Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
_____Landed 82___________ 138
____Thrown 341__________ 241
_______Pct. 24%__________ 57%

[Beanflicker]

I never thought DLH/Mayweather was nearly as close as most people. Floyd controlled the fight for the most part, and DLH really couldn't do anything of substance. He got Floyd on the ropes and shoe-shinned him with some quick slapping punches (most of which didn't land), and Jim Lampley and the crowd would go nuts and people thought he was scoring with real punches... he wasn't.

[Beanflicker]

CompuBox Punch Stats
Total Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
Landed 122 207
Thrown 587 481
Pct. 21% 43%
Power Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
Landed 82 138
Thrown 341 241
Pct. 24% 57%

Yup, and to be honest I don't believe De La Hoya hit Floyd 122 times. I think he got credit for a ton of blocked punches.

[ruthless rocco]

CompuBox Punch Stats
Total Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
Landed 122 207
Thrown 587 481
Pct. 21% 43%
Power Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
Landed 82 138
Thrown 341 241
Pct. 24% 57%

Yup, and to be honest I don't believe De La Hoya hit Floyd 122 times. I think he got credit for a ton of blocked punches.

Can one amass a 57% to 24% power punch spread over the championship rounds?

[beenKOed]

Floyd might get desperate, but I doubt it will be early on. Once he sees how tricky and quick Manny is, he is going to be covering up and relying on power. In a funny way, I can see it being a bit like Pac/Bradley 2. Floyd cannot keep up with the work rate or the combinations and so he is going to have to lay something big down the middle. Floyd doesn't hit hard, so I don't think he can keep Manny off. There is every chance Manny will destroy Floyd and everyone will be in shock. Floyd was only squeaking by Cotto and DLH and Hatton years ago and Manny destroyed these guys. Floyd is in for a hard days night.

If you think Floyd squeaked by those guy you don't get what he does. He was incompete control every minute of every one of those fights. I suspect you're being sarcastic though.

Hate to gang up on Gandalf, but you are right.
Gandalf, sarcastic? I don't think so. Lol

[erics44]

CompuBox Punch Stats
Total Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
_____Landed 122__________ 207
_____Thrown 587 __________481
________Pct. 21%_________ 43%
Power Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
_____Landed 82___________ 138
____Thrown 341__________ 241
_______Pct. 24%__________ 57%

those stats make it look one sided, where did you get your information from?

when i watched it i thought it was close

[Master]

CompuBox Punch Stats
Total Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
_____Landed 122__________ 207
_____Thrown 587 __________481
________Pct. 21%_________ 43%
Power Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
_____Landed 82___________ 138
____Thrown 341__________ 241
_______Pct. 24%__________ 57%

those stats make it look one sided, where did you get your information from?

when i watched it i thought it was close

Stats are a load of rubbish at times.

[J_Undisputed]

From the muscle work Floyds purportedly doing, my guess is he would be following the Marquez IV blueprint.

He's already bigger at the weight and naturally faster as a counter puncher than marquez so I can see him willing to let manny punch, tie him up and muscle him around the ring and settle him down. Then I wouldn't be surprised to see him try to work defensively on counter punching but when manny steps out, I'd look for floyd to follow him out try to land the Marquez fight hand that dropped Manny twice and take his confidence early. If a puzzles been solved for you, you could look to do it better... even if it only means doing it faster.

[ruthless rocco]

The stats are Compubox stats as listed on Boxrec.

[pacfan]

I really doubt that would happen. Floyd tried to do just that with Maidana and got into some trouble and so on the second fight, he went into his usual defensive shell again and easily beat him. I bet that's what he will try to do again.

Everyone thinks that Manny is some big KO artist and Floyd is the light puncher...but Manny hasn't had a KO since 2009 and Floyd's last KO was in 2011.

(...and I'm sure it's no coincidence that Manny seems to have lost all his KO power since drug testing has become de rigueur.)

Ortiz fight should not count and therefore Floyd's last knockout is even further away.

true. Ortiz KO was a crock of camel shit. floyd was so mad at the cut lip from the goat head butt then the kissing and tonguing gay bullshit that he just said FUCK IT and clocked his lil' ass, cold-cocked him. It was understandable after that headbutting bullshit.
woulda been funny to give Ortiz 5 minutes to recover and take a point from Floyd, and let the damn fight go on, it was getting good.

At least that shows that Floyd does have a KO power. I've always thought his power is greatly underrated...

[Manos de Piedra]

Been thinking about this reverse-psychology thing with the fight lately, and after watching Floyd spar on that clip, I got the feeling he will come out throwing bombs, he hasnt had a knockout in so long and certain people are all thinking he will stink the place out with all his running and etc., that he may run even more now that he's in with a deadly puncher with great speed, but I think he may do the opposite here and shock everyone, he was throwing some really hard right hands in that clip, hard power shots, really sitting down a bit more than usual on his punches, I think he needs to get Manny's respect in the first 2 minutes of the 1st Round by landing a nice big right hand. Can you imagine Floyd knocking out Manny with power shots toe-to-toe? It would blow everyone's mind.

I don't see him going toe to toe because that would be stupid with Pac's punch power and combo speed, but I do think he will sit down on his shots alot more in this fight to try and prove a point by putting some hurt on Pacquiao.

TBH the more I study the two guys the more I see either guy winning this fight but I lean towards Floyd's skill and IQ to punish pac for things he usually gets away with and taking a UD.

[pacfan]

CompuBox Punch Stats
Total Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
_____Landed 122__________ 207
_____Thrown 587 __________481
________Pct. 21%_________ 43%
Power Punches De La Hoya Mayweather
_____Landed 82___________ 138
____Thrown 341__________ 241
_______Pct. 24%__________ 57%

those stats make it look one sided, where did you get your information from?

when i watched it i thought it was close

It's not that hard to count punches if you do it under slo-mo. But hardly anyone really does that; I've gotta feeling they just don't want to know the truth.