By Dan Ambrose: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KO’s) has been repeatedly saying that he’ll adapt to whatever Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) brings to the ring this Saturday night in their Showtime PPV bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Guerrero is convinced that he can adapt to anything and everything that the 36-year-old Mayweather does on Saturday to neutralize whatever strategy that he tries. I would agree with Guerrero that he could possibly accomplish this, but the problem he has in this fight involves a mismatch in hand speed, a big mismatch.
Mayweather is so much faster than Guerrero, and he’s not just faster, he’s a lot more skilled. Guerrero can adapt all he wants, but if he’s moving in slow motion compared to Mayweather, it won’t help him much.
Guerrero is going to need hand speed to be successful in all things he attempts to block Mayweather, and he’s not going to suddenly become fast by Saturday night. Guerrero is what he is and he’s not going to change that for this fight.
The only trick that Guerrero has up his sleeves for this fight is his ability to rough Mayweather up to try and get an advantage. If the referee is looking the other way while Guerrero works his fouling tricks on Mayweather, then I’d say Guerrero has a chance in this fight.
When you’re able to take the fight into the MMA category where you’re holding and hitting you’re opponent then it’s awfully tough for the other fighter that is playing by the normal rules of the sport. We’ve seen in the past that boxers don’t do well against MMA fighters because they’re playing by a separate set of rules.
This is why it’s important that the referee be on his job to make sure this fight is conducted under the normal rules of the sport of boxing because it won’t be an even playing field if Guerrero is using every foul in the book on Mayweather while the referee is asleep at the wheel and just taking up space in the ring without doing his job and disqualifying Guerrero for fouling.
I’d like to think that Guerrero can do more than just foul to make this a good competitive fight, but I suspect he’s going to fall into the same trap as Victor Ortiz, a fighter who resorted to fouling when he started getting dominated by Mayweather in their fight in September 2011.
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