As I've said before, if Floyd, as a guy who weighed 148 at fight time, couldn't have boiled down to 140, 36hrs earlier, if he wanted/needed to,...
Margarito fights nothing like Corrales. Much more comparable to a taller, bigger Castillo.
I had him losing by at least 5 points. He was gallant but badly outsized and muscled - a key dynamic which doesn't change with youth.
Prime Erik isn't anywhere near 140lb.
Styles, fights.....there's a saying there somewhere, can't quite remember it. (It was also 16 inactive months 'after', aged 39)
Im saying it's a mismatch, put the other pieces together to suit.
I'm sure Tyson would beat 95% of opponents more 'impressively' than Larry Holmes or Evander Holyfield on that basis. Not a good basis, IMO.
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At 130 I'd heavily favour Marquez. At 135 it gets more interesting.
You're off your nut. That wouldn't have went 8 rounds. Swamped.
I hate to shout but..... BOTH MEN WOULD HAVE WEIGHED 148 ANYWAY!!!!!!!! Why aren't people hearing this?
Pavlik is generally soft and scrawny, he's NOT a very big guy (Jermain Taylor is bigger), he's just tall and rangy. Martinez comes in over 170 by...
Splitting hairs here, chaps.
'Word' This is basically based on nothing. The only two intervening fights were dominant wins over decent opponents. Again, this is all...
Why? :dunno:
Hatton's standard in ring weight weight as a JWW - 148 His weight that night - 148 Floyd's standard weight as a JWW - 148 His weight that...
As welterweights in 2011? Nothing obvious about that, at all.
Mosley has afar better chance of winning at 147
It's the kind of style match up (like Tackie) where Ricky would effectively be 'the boxer' and use his foot speed to fight in and out rather than...
Exactly. Tacit quitting is the worst kind, IMO. Quitting on your stool is a gesture of honesty and personal responsibility at least.
Heart is the ability to turn around adversarial situations in the ring or its nothing worth talking about in the discussion of fights and...
If it aint floyd I dont give A FUCK
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Same fighter, both won convincingly. Split hairs.
Done.
You're such a sweet romantic, steve! :bears:
This is another fight which sparked my 'size always matters' thread (another was Froch-Abraham, which you'll disagree with Mex, but we'll leave...
And like I said in the OP. Lets say YOU have a bullying style with lots of physicality, or would like to employ elements of one in said fight....
Floyd would have won but it would have been far more competitive. The dynamic would have looked different and Marquez would have had more...
This is basically in reference to nothing, but I wanted to reiterate an opinion I have that I've become even more convinced of - size always...
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