Official Floyd Mayweather- Manny Pacquiao Postfight aftermath discussion

[jreckoning]

Roach should ask Roy Jones to spar with Manny. I think he'd be a perfect sparring partner in preparation for Floyd.

Huh? Why?

[Carpe Diem]

Now let's how well Floyd operates when he uses the lead hand to set up his offense or counter-punch as he backs up on the ropes. The lead hand not only momentarily halt his opponent's forward aggression from recklessly walking through him, it gives him the leverage to anticipate any sudden movement his opponent makes and quickly react in time to get in defensive position to duck/block his opponent's punches.


This is what i'd like to see Floyd do more often when an opponent is coming at him and trying to back him on the ropes. It completely stops the opponent's forward aggression and gives Floyd the leverage to sneak in a few power punches. Why doesn't he do this more often? What leverage does he gets when he just backs up on the ropes with his lead hand down by his waist and let his opponent/s outworking him and getting their offense off? It makes no ****ing sense to me when you can not only momentarily stop your opponent's forward aggression with the lead hand on his face, use it to set up your offense as a decoy, and can still use that same lead hand for defense to instantly measure/anticipate any sudden forward movement your opponent makes.







I can't find that gif anymore, but anyway, Floyd did a great job with the lead hand in this fight. You can compare this fight to how he fought Sharmba Mitchell, and you'll instantly notice that he used the lead hand measure more against, Ortiz. He constantly used the lead hand to came forward or to anticipate/counter an attack. This is how he needs to fight against a smaller guy like, Manny. Don't drop the lead hand by your waist and give Manny the easy opening set up his own lead hand for that straight left upstairs. Keep constantly turns with with Manny and pawing the jab in front of his face. He won't be able to get his lead foot on the inside of your lead foot as long you're side-stepping the opposite way and pinpoint the lead hand on his face.

At the 6:39-6:52 min mark, he used the lead hand measure to controlled Ortiz's forward aggression and constantly countered him on the way in. Ortiz still end up crowding him, but Floyd had enough time to anticipated his aggression and smothered Ortiz's offense afterwards.

Again at the 7:03-7:07 min mark, Floyd measured Ortiz's forward aggression with the lead hand and caught him with a good straight right hand on the way in. It was a quick adjustment that Floyd made when he momentarily dropped his lead hand at the 6:57-6:59 min mark that allowed Ortiz's to easily ambushed his way in. Floyd instantly made the quick adjustment at the 7:03-7:07 min mark, and used the lead hand to momentarily slowed down Ortiz's forward aggressive and caught him on the way in. Brilliant tactic with the lead hand. Again, why doesn't he use it more often to control a fight?


It's like holding a spear or sword directly at someone's face, he/she isn't going to run through the direction of the spear/sword to try to get to you, they'll try to duck under or move in another angle to get to you, but all you have to do is keep pointing the spear/sword at his/her face whenever he/she tries to move pass it.

[shadow_mp8]

Cotto and Dela hoya had no blood in the face!!! just saying.

[IronDanHamza]

How Pacquiao deals with a slick master boxer.

How is Ledwaba a master boxer?

[IronDanHamza]

Is that the same guy that struggled with Matthew Hatton. And was drained to 152lbs

Are you some sort of parody account?

Struggled with Matthew Hatton?

What by winning every round, dropping him and generally beating the crap out of him?

[Japanese Badass]

Pacquiao is gonna Algieri this fraud.

[URAGONAKO]

Floyd Mayweather -- Insane Layered Sculpture ... From Famous Artist

Floyd Mayweather
Insane Layered Sculpture
... From Famous Artist




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This is a pretty bad ass birthday gift!!

Floyd Mayweather turned 38 yesterday ... and to honor the boxer, famous artist Michael Kalish whipped up one of those ultra-cool layered sculptures of Floyd's face.

If you haven't seen one of these before, they're awesome -- comprised of multiple pieces set apart from each other in layers -- but when you look at it head on, they all come together to form an image.

Kalish says the sculpture took four months to put together and cost $75,000.

Mayweather received the gift at a bowling party in Vegas ... and you can tell the guy is clearly impressed.

Kalish tells TMZ Sports, "I will be at the upcoming fight against Pacquiao, but I won't be the next Justin Bieber, walking in next to him."

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Looks more like Judah?

[tambay]

Im afraid Mayweather will come up a victor

[Rath]

Im afraid Mayweather will come up a victor

I am afraid Victor (Ortiz) will come up a Floyd

JK

[StefanTosic]

Some of the possible sparring partners I think would be good for Pacquiao are:

Erislandy Lara - For his speed, quickness, footwork and also his greatly synchronized hands/feet connection. He is also similar size to Floyd, just slightly taller - 1 inch, and his reach - 3 inches longer

Hassan N'dam - Same size as Floyd and Lara, tough conventional fighter who moves a lot, is quick and fast with his hands and feet both, but I'm not so sure how of a counter puncher he really is, maybe I'm wrong because I haven't seen his fights in a long time but I don't think he is a true counter puncher.

Ahmed El Moussaoui - Same size as Floyd, good move and handspeed, young talented welterweight, 5 times french champion, you can watch him this friday, which is tomorrow, he has a fight scheduled.

Also Chris Algieri, Tim Bradley, Paul Spadafora maybe but I'm not so sure about him, than Kell Brook who's fights I haven't seen enough yet but I saw against Porter that he's a nice counter puncher with nice timing and very intelligent fighter, however he has a fight scheduled for march 28... people talk about Amir Khan, who would be good because he's the same size as Floyd plus for his hand and foot speed, but other than that he's completly different, he's not counter puncher at all, relly only on his speed and his combinations while Floyd usually don't throw more than 1 or 2 punches.

EDIT: And Terence Crawford would be cool too but he has a fight scheduled on 04/18.
And I expect the same sparring partners for Algieri fight to be included.