Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny
The best Mayweather is past Ice. Sure he's still miles away from the competition, but as i posted in another thread, he's beginning (like Bernard hopkins) to rely on his guile and expierience rather than his physical ability.
However i do feel this is a factor which has arisen from Floyd's numerous jump in weight, at lower weights, up until lightweight he was incredibly slick and lithe, since moving up toward light welter his body is more mechanical, practised in it's movements.

However this offers little to offer the Hatton fan hope, it merely indicates that Floyd is now drawing on his wealth of expierience from fights and training now in order to win fights.
I totally disagree. I think Mayweather has gotten slower than what he was when he was younger, but he has also gotten a lot stronger, not p4p wise, but in terms of how strong in general he is also. Also he is always improving technically... you look back to the G. Hernandez fight, you see mistakes he didn't make two years after that, and now he doesn't make mistakes he made 2 years past. His speed has diminished all that much, and I think most of it is due to the fact he has to plant his feet more now, and he has to push a little more with his punches.