Mayweather-Guerrero: Will Robert win if he averages 100 punches thrown per round?

By Boxing News - 03/20/2013 - Comments

guerrero33By Allan Fox: WBC interim welterweight champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KO’s) has been pretty transparent about how he plans on trying to beat undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) on May 4th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Guerrero’s plan is to get in the best shape possible to fight hard for 12 rounds, to put a ton of pressure on Mayweather, and throw a massive amount of punches that he’ll have problems answering due to his advanced age of 36. It’s a plan that many younger fighters use on aging veterans like Mayweather, and it’s a plan that tends to work more often than not.

When you get a fighter that is up there in age like Mayweather, you don’t have to be brilliant or a great boxer, and Guerrero certainly isn’t either of those things. All you need to do is stay on top of them and throw a lot of punches that the aging fighter can’t keep up with.

Guerrero is going to try to do to Mayweather what he did to Andre Berto last November. It worked well against Berto, who technically isn’t old fighter at 29, but physically he fights like an older fighter by fighting with his back against the ropes instead of the center of the ring in every round.

Mayweather probably has a pretty good idea what Guerrero is going to try and do to him on May 4th, and he’s going to attempt to keep the action in the center of the ring in order to avoid finding himself having to match Guerrero’s high work rate. The question is will Mayweather be able to move around enough to keep from getting bulled against the ropes like a matador.

It’s going to take a lot of movement from Mayweather in order to keep from being pinned down in this fight because Guerrero is going to be following him around all night long looking to force him into his kind of fight.



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