Mayweather-Guerrero: Robert needs a plan A to Z to beat Floyd

guerrero34By Dan Ambrose: WBC interim welterweight champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KO’s) has been saying recently that he can adapt to anything that Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) can do in the ring, and that he has several plans that he’s going to shift through on May 4th to find a way to beat the 36-year-old Mayweather in their pay-per-view fight on Showtime/CBS at the MGM Grand, Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

If Guerrero is going to win this fight, and I doubt that he will, he’s going to need every plan in the alphabet to get him the victory because he seems pretty basic in everything that he does in the ring. When Guerrero is walking his opponents down, like he did against Andre Berto last November, he stands upright and is slow and hittable.

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The world of boxing nicknames

floyd5 - CopyBy Simon “Silent” Allen: Many skills are needed to succeed in art of boxing. A good jab, defence, speed agility and stamina and so on but a nickname is not one of them. Yet no boxer worth their weight is without one and a look through the annals of the sports history shows just how diverse these monikers can be from the intimidating to the outright hilarious.

Many fighters nick names carry a description of their fighting style, they function as a source of advertisement to fans and other parties as an example of what is expected from this fighter in the ring. Take “The Will o’ the Wisp” Willie Pep a fighter known in his day as an a great defensive and elusive fighter. Even going so far as to win a round without throwing a punch. Another fighter with a nick name that accurately described his fighting style was “The Human Punching Bag” Joe Grim. Joe is one of the most defeated boxers in all of fight history losing almost as many fights as he has appeared in often being beaten all over the ring and hitting the canvas at regular intervals.

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

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.

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Floyd thrives off criticism

floyd1234By Robert Elmore: Floyd Mayweather Jr. thrives off people hating him. He knows people want to see him lose badly. And at this point in his career, he knows people don’t care who he loses to. The point is; just as long as he loses. He knows people want to see him fight the likes of middleweight champion Sergio Martinez or junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez.

Floyd knows that whom he selects to fight, the haters will do their best to down grade the fight. Even if he fights within his own weight class, something will be wrong with the opposition. Before the fights starts it will be “This opponent will give Floyd problems,” His bullying style will push Floyd to the ropes where his shoulder roll is ineffective”.

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Mayweather vs. Guerrero: I’m feeling extremely strong now, says Robert

1653(Photo Credit: Paul Hernandez) By Dan Ambrose: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KO’s) says he’s preparing well to get ready to beat unbeaten Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) on May 4th in their Showtime/CBS battle. Guerrero, 29, is putting in hard work at the gym that he figures will pay off when he steps inside the ring to fight the older, but more talented Mayweather at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Guerrero said “These next six weeks of training will be very grueling, but I’m well prepared to make the sufficient sacrifices that will be needed to dethrone Mayweather…My body is filling out perfectly. I’m feeling extremely strong right now.”

Guerrero’s whole game is based on being able to outwork his opponents, so it’s not surprising that he’s talking so much about how hard he’s working in training camp because unless he’s in good enough shape to throw 100 punches per round for 12 rounds, he’s going to get riddled to pieces by the sharpshooting Mayweather on May 4th in front of a huge pay-per-view audience in the United States.

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Guerrero: Mayweather can’t escape the punishment I’m going to inflict upon him

1652(Photo Credit: Paul Hernandez) By Dan Ambrose: The light hitting WBC interim welterweight champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KO’s) is suddenly convinced that’s he’s become a slugger after closing the eyes of his last opponent Andre Berto last November in a foul-plagued performance by Guerrero in beating Berto by a 12 round unanimous decision.

You can make a pretty strong argument that Guerrero should have lost at least three points in that fight, and the outcome should have been a draw instead of a win for him due to his constant fouling.

Guerrero now believes he’s going to pound Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) in the same manner when they meet on May 4th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Everybody wants a piece of Mayweather Jnr

floyd66By Babatis Banda: He once said ‘all roads lead to Mayweather Jnr’. On several other occasions, he has also baldly stated that he is the face of boxing. What I find intriguing is the fact that a horde of boxers are baying his name.

Other than the fighters themselves, there is a ‘movement’ of a frustrated group of so called boxing fans, who are no more than just ‘armchair’ critics or what I would call ‘keyboard warriors’ that are dedicated to smear Mayweather junior with any kind of accusation no matter how absurd. This group has gone to extends of determining who Mayweather Jnr should fight and who he should not, and in doing so they seem to have found satisfaction and a temporary escape from their misery.

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Golovkin wants Mayweather at 155

golovin1By Allan Fox: WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (25-0, 22 KO’s) says you can add his name to the list of fighters that wouldn’t mind facing unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the near future if Mayweather were to be willing to meet him at 155 lbs.

Golovkin fights at 160 lbs, so he couldn’t come down to 147 lbs. to fight Mayweather because that would be too much weight for Golovkin to take off. However, he is willing to meet Mayweather halfway at 155 if he’s open to taking the fight.

Golovkin said to RingTV “Of course, that would be my dream to fight Mayweather.”

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Should “The Ghost” be in the ring with Mayweather?

guerreo991By Mister Jackson: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero’s boxing record is 31-1-1, sounds very impressive to me and most when looking at the numbers, right?  Well, only two of the fights on his record are at welterweight,  Guerrero has defeated Andre Berto and Selcuk Aydin.

Guerrero should be given credit for facing the challenge of fighting in a higher weight class, because we have all seen other fighters fail when moving up in weight.  Considering the fact that Guerrero jumped up two weight classes and only had two welterweight fights, one has to question how the rankings are handled. 

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