Quote Originally Posted by Yuzo View Post
i was watching an old clip of floyd mayweather doing pad work with his dad. its an old clip i wish i could find it again. he was just a kid. had to be around maybe 11 years old i guess. they were up in the ring and his dad starts throwing shots at him. the kind of stuff that, if it hit him, you could tell it would hurt pretty bad. he, very calmly, made all of that miss. is something like that child abuse? i realized that floyd mayweather, from a very young age, probably younger than he was there, was totally at peace with punches flying by his head. if you can get it into your head that the other guys punches arent a bad thing and they are actually a good thing that you get to use to your advantage, then you can really start boxing.
I had an extensive look myself and couldn't find it. I did however spend the rest of the afternoon looking at Mayweather Sr clips of him doing padwork.

@Master, now I see what you mean about people on the street not lasting 3 mins against an armature boxer.