Comments Thread For: Duran: Mayweather Not TBE, I Would Have Beaten Him

[aboutfkntime]

Lol IF fanboy.

If the referee penalized Floyd for all that excessive hugging chino would have won that cleanly and easily.

Floyd owes chino a belt. His the one who owes him lol

Case in point:

HUGGIES 70 hugs in one night.

He gave him plenty. And more in the rematch

[doom_specialist]

ain't no one trying to take anything from floyd, emo.

wasn't even talking about floyd. defensive like a chick.

Making excuses for Pacquiao's performance while giving no credit to Mayweather's style/strategy/performance, but "ain't no one trying to take anything from Floyd" lol. Also disregarding the second half of my comment, and the point of the comment entirely to defend Pacquiao, but I'm the emotional one somehow lol again.

Making sure to include an insult in every reply (with no counter argument), but I'm the defensive one acting like a chick

Thanks for the waste of time.

[Slick_Rick]

The best Duran beats Floyd.

The out of shape, unfocused, past his prime loses to Floyd, and thats only one Floyd would fight.

So if could be made a reality, in anyway, Floyd would win

[hugh grant]

The peak Duran would beat Floyd.
But it isn't too late for Floyd to make me change my mind. Fight GGG at middleweight and if GGG cant knock you out, even if GGG wins, I would go for you to win a points decision against Duran.

Moral of the story. Fight GGG already Floyd at 160. That is important because Floyd never took risks throughout his career, so just do it once. Duran did with more kos than Floyd has fights.

[Fantasiabruja]

It would be "No Mas" part 2

This^^^^^Floyd would have frustrated the hell out of him.

[Spoon23]

This^^^^^Floyd would have frustrated the hell out of him.

Lol he can't even handle Maidana what more Duran.

Case in point.



HUGGIES

[Spoon23]

He gave him plenty. And more in the rematch

Plenty of ***** boxing I might add.



HUGGIES

[Fantasiabruja]

Lol he can't even handle Maidana what more Duran.

Case in point.



HUGGIES

I don't have any love for Floyd and I don't like him but facts are facts. IMO A Mayweather in his prime would have boxed circles around Duran.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Benitez was elusive as a guy as mayweather and hearns dropped and beat him by decision

Benitez is not anywhere on Floyd's level of defensive mastery. No one is except Sweet Pea and MAYBE prime Toney and Jones Jr.

...Duran was a master at defence and not easy to hit

You're kidding, right? Hearns found Duran plenty fine, and Duran had no answer. Duran got sparked quite a few times. Let's not overestimate the man simply because of his dominant rise and wild style. Floyd's no Pipino Cuevas.

....Castillo was a lightweight and your comparing a Paul Williams to a Thomas hearns lol

Analogy. Compared to their opponents they were huge, that's the point.

Compared to Floyd Hearns would be massive (so everyone says), and my point is that Floyd has fought (and beat) larger fighters plenty.

here you have 130lb natural fighter in mayweather vs 147 lb pound fighter with the reach of a heavyweight

Which tells me you didn't read my post fully.

EARLY Hearns gets smoked by early Mayweather just like EARLY Hearns got smoked by Hagler. Same basic result, Floyd in and gone, Hearns KO'd.

LATE Floyd (2007+) would get smoked by EARLY Hearns.

You can't do straight up comparisons because they changed styles. EARLY Hearns was sloppy and had piss poor defense. Leonard was tagging him all night long, Hagler picked him apart. When Hearns came back larger he wasn't wild anymore, he was precise and accurate, dangerous. That's the Hearns that would give Floyd problems. Duran had the same problem, wild, taking risks early, got more precise and studied later on. That Duran would give Floyd problems.

People couldn't beat Floyd because they couldn't out box him. Wild fighters failed to do so (Cotto, Ortiz, Maidana, supposed to be Pacquiao). Why do you think Floyd drained Canelo and Marquez? A fresh Marquez would have given Floyd problems, a calm Tim Bradley gives Floyd problems. Terence Crawford would give Floyd problems. Lara would give Floyd problems. Not saying any of them would have won, but they would have given Floyd problems. Thus why the fights never would have happened.

you think slow maidana caught mayweather

Nope. Floyd allowed that fight to go that way, probably to send a message to Broner that he shouldn't have lost and to disprove the Maidana myth. We saw proof of that in the rematch, where Floyd fought the way he should have done in the first place.

castillo wasn't lanky, you nitwit.

I never said he was. All you guys keep making this strawman argument that Hearns' size would prove to be a problem for Floyd because of reach or whatever.

All I said was, Castillo was larger (physically in appearance) than his opponent (Floyd), and got beat. Twice.

De La Hoya was larger than his opponents (Floyd AND Manny) and got beat.

Regardless of anything else, Floyd beat a physically larger opponent and has done multiple times. Size means nothing if you have the skill.

Thus it's not a stretch to believe that Floyd could beat a physically larger Hearns - though Hearns' size is because he was lanky, not just because of height - and Hearns made significant mistakes as a younger fighter. His chin was suspect for years and he was off balance, just like Hamed, and we see what happened there.

THAT is what I said. Pay attention, people.

[Damn Wicked]

Maybe , maybe not.

Any fighter can beat any other fighter on a good night. I don't know why people think that any fighter will always beat another fighter all the time. Do NHL, NBA, NFL teams always beat the same teams every time they play. The problem with boxing is that fighters are matched up so carefully and given advantages so that they drastically increase their odds of winning.