Mayweather Vs Pacquiao - The Countdown

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Who will win?

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"Yes, he won the fight. He threw more punches and he landed more of them and he was the superior boxer, I guess. He won in the same way some neutral zone trap hockey team bleeds out another team. He clearly built his fighting style around with a calculated strategy of gaming the compubox system so that he gets credit for even the most cursory of punches. And he gets away with it because he always looks as if he can do more. It always feels like there’s some grand fusillade of punches in him that he never ends up having to deploy. He looks like he could unload if he ever felt like it, and so he gets an awful lot of credit for all the things he could do but is too shrewd to risk doing. The only time he ever goes on the offensive is when he’s fighting a woman.


To watch Floyd Mayweather box is to witness an elaborate exercise in self-preservation. There’s not much passion. There’s certainly not much flair. There’s just Floyd moving around, doing his best to preserve a rote decision, and preserve the potential rematch, and preserve an unbeaten record that holds more historic value to him that it does anyone else. And yes, his style works, if only in the most cynical sense. Really, it’s the perfect boxing strategy for a man who is a documented wife-beater and ****bag: always doing just enough to get away with it."

Drew Magary
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DevAdvocate said:
Ali made an art form out of boxing defensively.
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Not really. In his early fights Ali made an art form out of being very hard to hit, which is not quite the same thing. Then he discovered he could take a lot of punishment, which is the worst thing that can happen to a heavyweight.

Despite his ferocious aggression, Tyson was also very hard to hit, especially when he had Teddy Atlas and Kevin Rooney working with him.

Mayweather's achievements don't even come close to either of that pair.
 
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