Glenn McCrory Tips Shane

[RP33]

Firstly, Ricky Hatton did help mayweather, but to say that he wasn't going to be an ATG, or a big draw eventually after being undefeated and beating big names, is not fair. I mean, he doesn't have the constant crowd pleasing brawling entertaining style, but if you don't appreciate his skills and if you don't want to watch a fighter with his talent, then you're not a fan of boxing anyway..

secondly, and this should be it's own topic, but talking aobut shane being as fast as floyd..

Maybe, it's just me, but i think we will see a significant difference in speed in the ring.. Round 1, it will be apparent.. Floyd is faster than shane.. they may have similar handspeed, but Floyd's agility and in and out movement, along with his defensive evasion techniques are FAR superior..

Does everyone forget, because Floyd only fights once a year, how he does what he does?

He doesn't fight on the inside, unless he knows that he can match power with his opponent.. He obviously can't with Shane, so he's going to stay out of range most of the fight, or on the fringe of Shane's range so that he can get in and out quickly and score points. Shane will have to catch him on the way in, or corner him and throw combo's, but don't think that just because Shane has handspeed that he'll be able to connect often with Mayweather. IMO, Mayweathers agility and general speed in the ring, is superior than just Shane's handspeed.

Now, I don't think that Floyd has a chance of KO'ing Shane, and of course Shane has fought much harder punchers, but the reason why Floyd has any power is because of his accuracy and his mechanics.. he puts ALL of his weight behind that left hook, and when he catches you flush, it's going to buzz you.. When he leaps forward with his straight right, he again, puts all of his weight into it.. All of his signature punches are just executed so well, that even if he doesn't have the power in his fists, he's still using torque and mechanics to inflict pain, which, i think will be enough to not allow Shane to just steam forward and try to pressure floyd. Or, at least make him think twice about it.

[0james0]

I watched the Cotto vs Mosley fight last night again, although there wasn't too much in it, Cotto looked the more skilled and Mayweather is a cut above that.

Although, to be fair to Mosley, he does look to have grown a lot since then, that was probably 6 or so years ago now.

There will only be one winner from this, Mayweather by UD, all night long, deep down everyone knows it, even those like me that don't like Floyd know it, even big Glen knows it deep down!

[Gandalf]

We shouldn't forget that Floyd is 33 and has only fought Marquez (who is a lightweight) in the past two years. Come fight night Floyd will only have faced a JWW and a LW in almost 3 years. Mosley is a tough customer and Floyd really has been coasting an awful lot in recent times (all things considered).

[GAME]

Glens most embarassing prediction was picking Grant to beat Lewis. He went to see Grant train and after thinking about it he thought he would be too much of a handful for Lennox. Glen shouldnt dwell, he should just go with his gut feeling. His initial feeling for this fight was Floyd and he should stick with that.

Id like to think Shane would win too and tried convincing myself but cant do it. Floyd is just too good for Mosley at this stage but Ive never wanted to be proved wrong as much as I do on this fight

[Kirkland Laing]

I think the Sky pundits just pick different fighters on a rote system so that anybody reading or viewing their comments in the buildup hears them disagreeing, thinks the fight will be competitive and is thus more likely to tune in to watch. "Tune in" sounds a bit old-fashioned doesn't it? Anybody out there ever have a telly with a dial on it?