From a boxing purist’s standpoint, Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0) simply outpointed Canelo Alvarez (42-1) in their fight last September 14, labelled as “The One”. From jabs to feints to lateral movements, Mayweather exhibited Olympic style boxing at its best. For the general mainstream viewers however, this tactical chess-match style of fighting can really be a challenge to the attention span, especially if one has to sit thru 12 rounds of monotonous activity in the boxing ring with no knockdowns and furious exchanges. The unbeaten Mayweather explains why he wasn’t able to give the kind of fight excitement that the paying public is looking for: According to Floyd Jr., he dislocated his left elbow during the fight. He said in the post fight press conference: “I could have used more combinations down the stretch. I think I dislocated my elbow. My arm was hurting, and I wanted to stop using my jab and just paw with it.” This is probably a result of Canelo’s overall game plan of hurting Floyd’s left elbow, which serves as the primary line of defense in the “Philly shell” stance. If only Canelo had been more patient and used the strategy early on, he could have crippled Mayweather and limited his punching severely in the later rounds. But the Mexican star’s inexperience and lack of temper control proved to be the death blow for him in the fight. Read more http://www.boxingnews24.com/2013/09/mayweather-jr-dislocates-left-arm-in-canelo-fight/
Man i wanted Mayweather to lose guess my dream is not going to ever come true Unless manny comes in and whoops that ass
Bernard Hopkins says it takes a black trainer and black sparring partners to be able to conquer a black style like Mayweather's. Apparently Danny Garcia will be going that route.
