Whitaker vs Mayweather @ LW, LWW & WW

Whitaker never did shit. He was fucking horrible to watch. Jab, jab, duck, escape/hold.

Next you are going to tell me Leonard is more varied than Roy Jones.


Whitaker would've never been able to do what Floyd did to Corrales, nor Hatton for that matter.


Floyd's offense has regressed since his lighter days because he doesn't have the power to really hurt these guys he is fighting who are much bigger than him. Up until recently, Floyd was fighting 156lbs+ fighters while not even making the maximum at 147.


Whitaker's straight left was very inferior to Mayweather's straight right, and Mayweather's best punch is also the best punch against southpaws.

 

everything you just said was totally wrong, all of it, every sentence

 

Ridiculous post. Sounds like you have never actually seen a Whitaker fight.

 

Please stop posting in MM. Your ignorance makes me blink too fast.

 

agreed. i love watching boxing, but Whitaker was the most tedious "P4P" fighter i ever saw. why he's thought to be so invincible is beyond me.

i'm not even sure he beats a prime Mel Taylor, let alone PBF.

 

where did anyone say he would get slaughtered anywhere in MM?

point it out

because some are picking him to lose to maybe the best lightweight ever, that means its unfair?

because he doesnt have the right physical tools to beat Thomas Hearns (neither does Whitaker and plenty of other really great fighters) it means that there is some horrible conspiracy against him?

people were reluctant to pick him against Leonard so that means hes being disrespected??

thats all idiotic

shit, I picked him to beat guys like Alexis Arguello, Pacquaio, most of the top fighters from 130-147 ever with only a handful of exceptions, and I'd make him competetive in the ones he probably loses... Thats the same thing one could say about all of the great fighters in history

 

WTF Whitaker fights are you watching?

 

Several.

His fight with Chavez in particular was as tedious as it gets. Whitaker wanted no part of actually fighting the guy. It made Bernard Hopkins look like Ricardo Mayorga.

 

@LW Floyd doesn't fight him
@LWW Floyd doesn't fight him
@WW Floyd doesn't fight him

 

Truth, boring fighter.

Fact. Whitaker never dominated and stopped a P4P guy with a great chin and ATG level heart. He never knocked any one out with one punch in any of his big fights.

100% fact.

True again. Vastly inferior is hyperbole, but Mayweather's right hand is better than Whitaker's left, I don't even see how that is debateable.

 

Whitaker won undisputed LW Championship status with one punch. A clean-shot KO.

 

The Hurtado KO was particularly brutal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L19nOzFlLj8

 

Floyd has never stopped anyone fitting that criteria, either. Corrales and Hatton were the only two P4P fighters he's ever stopped. Neither were ever known for having a good chin. Just saying.

That was the last bit of unfinished business. The rest of your post(s) have been thoroughly dissected by others, no need to rehash.

 

:scratcher:

 

Yeah but...

Both Corrales and Hatton were considered to have had solid chins up to the point of fighting Floyd. Also even after that fight, Corrales' chin stood up to Frietas' bombs and Castillo's power in a toe to toe war for 10 rounds. Both Frietas and Castillo could be classified as punchers....especially Acelino. Hatton took Tszyu's best punches as well as Castillo's.

Floyd had Shane hurt on a few occasions and although he didn't stop him, I'm sure i wasn't the only one who thought the fight may have been stopped in around the 10th round. Shane has a solid chin.

Floyd's power is certainly notably superior to Whitaker's.

 

I agree with that part and was never disputing that.

Historically, Corrales will be known as a warrior with tremendous punching power but a mediocre chin. What he was thought to be going in is irrelevant, other than that it shouldn't take away from what Floyd did that night - many picked Floyd to lose (myself included) and couldn't have been more wrong. Others have made excuses whereas I view it as perhaps Floyd's finest hour, sans asterisk.

I've never, even known anyone who claimed Hatton had a great chin (TLC's claim was great). I can live with 'solid', though even that's debatable. I'd say that, not unlike Ruiz post-Tua (though to a smaller degree), hit-and-hold helped his survival more so than a pure ability to take a punch.

 

Fair enough

 

ridiculous

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4yaINTQKU