Quote Originally Posted by Smashup
Why does everyone go looking for Floyd?
We all know he boxes superbly on the back foot so why play into his hands?
You need him to commit to create the openings,it may have been boring (if Oscar sat back) for a while but Oscar was the champ and i feel went about it the wrong way.
34 years old and trying to hunt down one, if not maybe the greatest athlete the fight game has ever seen.
If (if) there was a rematch then i for one would like to see Oscar totaly change his gameplan then see what happens.
He had no plan B at all and by the 9th was just walking into Floyd with no jab whatsoever.
Just my thoughts after re-watching it for the 6th time earlier.
Yeah, I think that he definitely used the wrong strategy. I think that he should have been moving forward but he should have jab to setup his punches. If you think about it, that's really boxing 101. Also, he should have worked more in the middle of the ring which is where Floyd was relying on his offense working. I'm not sure if he thought he would tire from throwing jabs or something. It was very unusual considering that Floyd didn't even counter the jab at all so I don't know what Oscar was waiting for.