Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
This is what I REALLY hate about a lot of boxing/fight fans. They will see Mosley downright destroy Margarito, and will be SHOCKED when he can't do the same thing to a COMPLETELY different fighter. And then when he doesn't do it, its "Oh what happened? There must be something wrong with Mosley!" They say "Oh well if only Mosley THREW MORE PUNCHES he would have won! Why didn't he just do to Floyd what he did to Margarito? I don't get it!".

Not once does the thought occur that maybe Floyd is harder to tag than Margarito is? Maybe just "throwing punches" is not the greatest thing to do against one of the greatest defensive counter punchers the game has ever seen?

Is it possible that Mosley's lack of punch output was due to Floyd being VERY fast, VERY elusive, and Mosley being wary of Floyd's countering ability?

Or is it more believable that a guy like Mosley, who's been in the game his whole life and has held world titles in multiple weight divisions, gassed out after 1 round in the biggest fight of his life?

You're giving Floyd way too much credit. As different as Margarito is from Floyd, it's also a fact that Mosley has been on the decline as of late. Age is catching up to him. Look at the Sergio Mora fight. Or are you suggesting that Mosley was at his peak when he fought Floyd? He was on the decline. Stage the same fight a few years earlier, and you have a more competitive fight. And BTW, this kinda points out one of the criticisms leveled against PBF in recent years. He fights undersized, or over-the-hill fighters. He's not a risk taker. Being undefeated is probably the worst thing that could have happened to his career, oddly as that sounds. It has kept him from going out there and taking on all comers, without having a frigging "0" to take care of. Of course, Floyd fans will never see it this way, 'cause they're too blinded by all the hype surrounding the guy. He's a great talent to be sure, and probably one of the best of all time. But he's hurting his own legacy by carrying on his career as he has been doing. And time's running out. He needs some "shut-the-critics-up" fights NOW, before his own skills start to erode. Or else he's gonna end up lower in the ATG totem pole than he should be.