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Alchemistic Academician 13 tuntia sitten
I've rewatched this fight at least 10 times. I've watched the whole fight from 2 different angles at x0.25 speed all the way through. I saw clearly EVERY shot that has landed and EVERY shot that near missed and I've come to the following conclusion: 1. The first 4 rounds were much closer than they looked. Conor was giving many looks but Floyd was beautifully evasive. My take away was that Conor maintained long range and Floyd was not prepared to overextend to throw punches and the one or two times he did commit, Conor did a good job of slipping and touching him with a counter. I understand more now by watching it in slow motion, what Conor was saying about the gameplan changes from Floyd. It seemed that Floyd was having trouble getting into a range that he was comfortable with. He was in no rush to land anything and was being very defensively responsible with the shots that Conor was throwing. Conor was doing a good job of keeping Floyd's lead hand busy with his own lead hand, and was baiting him to throw his straight right but Floyd was too smart for that. BUT Conor landed something and Floyd landed basically nothing in the first part of this fight, but honestly the rounds were close as far as actual effectiveness.
2. The next 4 rounds (5th to 8th) were MUCH more competitive than people are giving Conor credit for. Whilst Floyd decided that forward pressure is the best course of action (shelling up until he got into range before firing, rather than countering, punching into range or setting traps as he was trying to do early on) he was still not landing a whole lot. However when he DID land, he landed with much more authority than Conor's punches BUT Conor did land a few hard punches in this part of the fight that people missed. Floyd got hit with that signature straight left 3 or 4 times in the segment of the fight but took it and came forward, Conor threw these with power splitting Floyd's bull guard but Floyd knew that eventually all this pressure will break Conor down. Conor moved well as Floyd came forward in these rounds, getting hit with a few solid shots here and there but for the most part being a decent matador.
3. The sequence in the beginning of the 9th round was started off by a straight left that lands hard on Floyd, from the other angle I saw it from (it was someones phone or something, they posted it up on YT but I think it got taken down like an hour ago, really good seats lol). This was followed by Conor pulling Floyd in with his right hand and coming around Floyd's guard with a left hook followed by a body shot that hit just below the belt or on the belt on Floyd's left side. It hit him in the hip. Floyd curls over and backs up like he got hit in the balls. Maybe he was pretending, maybe he was trying to buy time because the first left hurt him, maybe his nuts were squished to the far left near his hip. I don't know. But what is interesting is that when Floyd saw that the ref didn't step in, he essentially bent over to where his elbows touched his knees, giving Conor no legal target to hit. I don't know if he was hurt or what, but Conor tried to find his chin again one last time with his final burst of energy and then crashed HARD. It was an interesting sequence that only Floyd knows what really happened there, and he'll never admit that he was hurt by a legal punch, not unless it was obvious, which it wasn't.
4. The stoppage was good. Conor MIGHT have been able to survive with a man less skilled than Mayweather, but Floyd would've been too accurate, too energetic and too smart to let him escape that 10th round. Conor proved some very impressive things about his game that night, but also exposed some holes. His ability to deal with pressure, his ability to fight inside, his economy of movement, his mentality; they're all not on par with an elite boxer. All these are what separates an elite boxer from a talented boxer. A raw talent might have footwork, reactions, vision, distance and timing like Conor, but he hasn't put the time in to understand his body's economy, understand how to deal with constant forward pressure, little tricks to inside fighting. Floyd is too seasoned. He's simply a more complete boxer, a better boxer. Conor has very good amateur skills (4 round skills). 12 rounds is a different game.
