Mayweather vs DelaHoya

[Uke]

I also know that a lot of the punches Floyd's fans were counting as scoring blows didn't land cleanly or with any effect. Hitting a guy on his hairline with a jab is far from a "clean" blow.In fact, it's exactly the kind of thing you teach a boxer to do to bang up the other guy's hands. Floyd was landing with much greater regularity, no doubt. But it wasn't the miracle of marksmanship a lot of people say it was.

And it was a far cry from what Mayweather did to Gatti.

I figured on Floyd winning this one, too, and I wasn't surprised at all. It was the right decision. But I still think that if Floyd Mayweather Jr. was the "genuine and real" person you claim he is, he would not have had to make so many statements after the fight about all the things that were just an act.

"Real" men don't need to put on acts to be respected.

I didn't say it was what Mayweather did to Gatti. I said there were shades of what Mayweather did to Gatti, especially in the later rounds. Whether you saw it or not is inconsequential, but Mayweather was landing three piece combos at will and imposing his punches in the last 3 or 4 rounds.

As far as miracle of marksmanship, I'm sure he was happy to be landing over 50%. When the other guy is landing maybe 8 clean punches a round, then Floyd has nothing to feel bad about. Especially when he wasn't running.

This seems like another attempt at arguing that it wasn't a blowout, which again no one claimed that it was. It wasn't as close as some others like to believe either.

Point? The smaller, less powerful boxer won by using boxing, not brawling or strength. It wasn't a tough fight. What is the one thing that anyone can say that DLH did well in this fight? All the commentators could say was that they gave DLH credit for coming forward, even though he was clearly the bigger man.

What was DLH landing? At about 20%, he wasn't landing much, and those stats reflect overall, not power punches. The majority of his punches landed came from the pitty pat flurries that he threw to Mayweather's body against the ropes.

Also, forget what Mayweather fans counted. Talk about what compubox counted. Talk about how when the replays were slowed down, we saw all the punches DLH missed and then saw the flush counterpunches Mayweather was landing. Even DLH fans were going "ooooh" during the replays between rounds.

What's most important is that Floyd put on a casual boxing clinic where he threw 100 less but landed nearly 100 more punches. Looked like a sparring match to me. The only time DLH looked effective was in the last flurry of the 12th round.

I'd love to see Mayweather blast out Mosley next. That way not only would he have beaten DLH, but the man who spanked him twice, but Mayweather's going to go for the huge payday.

Real men don't make excuses at the the end of a fight that they've clearly lost, but boxers do often act tough to sell PPV's.

BTW, has anyone asked themselves why DLH would only accept a fight with Mayweather at 154lbs? Could it be that Roach and DLH were worried that DLH wouldn't have had as much an advantage at welterweight? DLH and Mosley BOTH announced that they were going back down to 147lbs, yet neither did. Could it be that they were afraid of Mayweather, Judah, Margarito, Clottey and Cotto? Sure seems like it.