Comparison of Floyd's punching stats to Vitali's punching stats in latest matches

[JT Rock]

The article iself is pointless. Its a question of styles. Its not often a heavy weight throws more punches than a welterweight, but look at the two fighters in question. One evaded punches as 90% of his defense against a pound 4-pound counter puncher and the other shoeshined a 1-2's against a guy who carried his gaurd high and barely threw. Arreola was game, but was he really a great fighter?

If vitali had defense like floyd, he wouldn't need to throw that many punches. If Floyd carried power like vitali's he would take a few to clip his opponents and make the same amount of money for few rounds of work.

Wanna compare punches landed on chris byrd vs those landed on floyd.. ok..sure.. both are considered defensive stylists and neither are considered strong punchers. Want to compare punches thrown/ or KO percentage between Vitali and TSzyu... ok.. cool. Both carry power and tried to box their opponents. The notion of comparing punches thrown by Floyd and Vitali is a spin that was started by HBO and continued in this article ..it only goes to Floyds pocket as evidence of what hes been saying about HBO commentators not knowing $hit about the sport. They would have actually made a point if they compared Floyd and Vitali to their counterparts in the 70's or 80's as evidence they throw more or less punches than a champ/superstar could.

Great points! Watch yourself though any credit given to Floyd is considered treason around here

[Kev]

I think the quality of opponent should be taken into account too.

Floyd was fighting one of the p4p best whereas Vitali was fighting a big, slow, fat, lumbering plodder who just kept coming forward and inviting Vitali to punch him in his stupid fat face.

Vitali is busy but unlike Floyd he didn't have to use any counterpunching skills. He's just a huge man with long arms who couldn't miss the human heavybag in front of him every time he stuck his jab out.

Under such circumstances we would have all thrown a lot of punches, it would be fun.