Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: Mosley Can't Get Mad at Mayweather

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya made a mistake that Shane Mosley has to stay away from. He got mad at Floyd Mayweather Jr. prior to their 2007 fight and then went in the ring fighting mad instead of fighting smart. De La Hoya used up most of his energy in the early rounds and faded down the stretch. He says Mosley has to ignore Mayweather's taunts and avoid fighting mad on May 1. [Click Here To Read More]

[Shadow boxer 3]

i agree with oscar for once. floyd wants shane to get mad and come in lookin for the KO. if he keeps his cool and applies smart pressure it will be a long night for floyd

[BritishBoxing92]

Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya made a mistake that Shane Mosley has to stay away from. He got mad at Floyd Mayweather Jr. prior to their 2007 fight and then went in the ring fighting mad instead of fighting smart. De La Hoya used up most of his energy in the early rounds and faded down the stretch. He says Mosley has to ignore Mayweather's taunts and avoid fighting mad on May 1. [Click Here To Read More]

keep your cool shane...fight smart against mayweather jr and land shots on him which will KO him...

[Frank Martin]

Good advice for Shane

[ksbcolts07]

I don't see why Mosley would be mad, he went from splitting 3 mil w/ Berto to getting the fight he's supposedly been after for 10+ years. Not to mention the biggest payday of his life @ age 39. What Mosley needs to do is forget about Margarito and prepare to bring extemely disciplined aggression to the ring.

[Ray*]

Yep!!! Shane has to be shane and let Mayweather be Mayweather, I have read on here how some posters have said Mosley should have done this and that blah blah blah but am glad Mosley wasnt as dumb as some of these posters who said those things.

[Chief2ndzOnly!]

ODH is right. Its the jab, but not any old jab a good strong authoritative up-jab. I just posted this for my potna Rome who asked me this very same question. It's alot of reading but here it go if ya'll wanna read it. Feedback is more than welcome as long as it aint that name calling mess ie. Gayweather, *****, *******, Roidhead. I dont get down with that ****.

The key to beating the Floyd we know now, is a fast strong up-jab, behind a tight guard from the southpaw stance. You also cant be scared to hook off the jab. Floyd has a few different gears he uses in the ring depending on his opponent in regards to the use of his jab(when he uses it)

1. Is the soft jab that he uses for spacing. If you are smart when you see him do this he is more then likely setting up his exit strategy; meaning straight right to the head or body is on it's way. But you kind of have to play the game of probability with it because he does hook off of the soft jab(remember this used to be Floyd's money punch and still is, he just doesn't show it in an attept to make you forget it's there).

2. FOOTWORK!!!!! dealing with Floyd involves knowing(feelin) where your feet are(Not like Allen Green who looks at his feet constantly), but keeping your lead foot on the outside of Floyd's(If your a Southpaw), If you are Ortho the you need to have your feet spaced a lil closer together about Shoulder width so that you take small slides to cut the ring off. Too much space in your stance and Floyd will expose it by throwing a lead(right or left) while he's on his way out, leaving you looking for him off balanced(bad combo right there).

3. You have to trick Floyd (or attempt to). The best trap that I could see to set would be to shorten your punches to give him a false sense of range, and wait for him to get comfortable with that range then drop the hammer on him after keeping him in range with a short jab. It's imparative that you out think Floyd. Pressure like JLC doesn't work anymore. He has fixed those mistakes.

You know how they say the law is always one step behind the criminals? Well it also goes for Floyd. His opponent is always one step behind him.

These are just SOME of the things I can see that you have to be able to do to beat Floyd. You cannot throw your punches wide or from too far out with Floyd. It's all about ring smarts, real estate of the ring(can't let Floyd have too much real estate), and strong fundamentals(strong jab). And you have to change the game plan every couple of rounds because he WILL figure you out.

That's all I can come up with by going off of Floyd's tendencies that I can see in my head, but if I watch tape on Floyd I might beable to pick up some of his habits to see how bad they really are. I doubt there are many, because he is constantly adapting to whats in front of him.

My question for all ya'll is this........How and what do you think Shane needs to do in order to solve the boxing puzzle/riddle that is Floyd Mayweather Jr.?

[Carpe Diem]

If Shane try to outbox Floyd, he's still gonna lose.

[El Talegon]

De La Hoya is 100% right. good advise

[boxing_great]

I think the best person to tell us the strategy is not posters from here, but rather people who have boxed or sparred Floyd.Then you can give a detailed personal customised way on the blueprint to beat Floyd.