(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr’s uncle Jeff Mayweather believes that Floyd Jr’s recent switch of trainers from Roger Mayweather to his father Floyd Sr. has taken Floyd Jr. back to what the style that he fought back earlier in his career when Mayweather Jr. used movement, speed and defense to win his fights.
Jeff thinks that Floyd Sr. has brought his son Floyd Jr. back to that form, and sees this father son combination being too much for WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to handle when he faces Mayweather Jr. on September 14th.
Jeff said to thaboxingvoice “Floyd [Sr.] is the voice. All he’s done is instill the memory of what his son used to do. He’s got him back boxing, he’s got him back using his legs, fighting like he used to.”
It was Floyd Sr. that taught his son to box originally, and it was Roger Mayweather that took over the training later on, but the foundation was built by Floyd Sr. Now that Mayweather Jr. is back with his father, he’s become the elusive boxer with the flashy speed and outstanding defense that he had in the early 90s when he was boxing circles around his opponents.
It’s amazing how Floyd Sr. was able to snap Mayweather Jr. back into that mode with a single training camp. Like Jeff said, it was bringing back the memory of how Mayweather Jr. used to fight and we’re seeing how he was.
Canelo is getting Mayweather Jr. at the wrong time. If Canelo had fought him last year while Roger was still training Mayweather Jr., he might have a puncher’s chance to beat him, but not now with Floyd Sr. training him again.
Canelo needs his opponents to stand in front of him because he’s a flat-footed fighter for the most part, and that’s not going to happen in this fight on September 14th.
Mayweather Jr. will be an elusive target and Canelo will be forced to try and beat Mayweather by throwing jabs, something Canelo isn’t very consistent with, and pot shots. In a fight where both fighters are throwing pot shots, Mayweather Jr. is going to win every time because of his speed.
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