Will Floyd Mayweather Come Out Throwing Bombs to Shock Everyone?

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When a guy turns down a huge pay day because he won't take a drug test, and after being accused of PEDs suddenly seems to lose his KO power almost instantly... it makes you wonder...

His KO power stemmed from the fact that he was fighting guys who engaged with him and thus left themselves open to counters. He hit Clottey and Oscar a million times without ever putting them over, yet Hatton and Cotto traded with him and got stopped.

There's no controversy. Steroids don't make you punch harder.

Hatton and Cotto were coming of KO losses.

When a fighter walks away from the biggest fight ever over drug testing....that is controversy.

Don't bullshit yourself...that's never a good thing.

What does that have to do with anything? Pacquiao had them in trouble because they left themselves wide open/walked on to shots. Not because he had super human steroid punching power. Clottey and De La Hoya largely covered up against Pacquiao which clearly lessened their chances of being KO'd. I don't get how that's difficult for anyone to grasp - if you walk on to a punch - it increases the impact, if you pull away from the punch or partially block it, it lessens the impact.

You need to point out where i am 'bullshitting myself' because i haven't declared that Pacquiao is 100% a clean fighter - because nobody on this board knows, and the same applies to Floyd or any other top level fighter. I have no allegiance to Pacquiao, nor do i particularly care about whether he's taken PEDs or not. I couldn't give two super shits. I'm just pointing out that KO/TKO wins over two fighters who tried to go to war with a much faster and more accurate fighter proves precisely fuck all. It just means they got punched in the face and they went down. It doesn't mean Manny Pacquiao was on steroids.

I'm not taking the trolls side by any means, I agree with you totally. However, it's hard to find two guys that took a punch at WW better than DLH or Clottey, those guys really had anvils for chins. I doubt it was a case where neither of them at any point walked into a punch, as much as neither of them had ever been seriously hurt to the head by anyone.

Yeah i mean that contributed aswell. Clottey and Oscar are both big guys. Clottey was so durable. Almost like a WW version of Sakio Bika. But he rarely left himself open long enough to be landed on cleanly in the same manner that both Hatton and Cotto did. Both were far too reckless, against a guy who was both faster and more accurate. But like you said, neither Clottey or Oscar have ever really been in trouble from a head shot anyway. Only one i can remember really was when Floyd rocked Oscar towards the back end of their fight, but again that was when Oscar walked on to a counter, and he was only really briefly wobbled by it.