Guerrero: If Mayweather fought me like he did Canelo it would have been a different fight

By Boxing News - 09/17/2013 - Comments

floyd#44By Dan Ambrose: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero saw last Saturday’s fight between former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KO’s) and Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) and he came away surprised that Mayweather Jr. had spent so much time standing directly in front of Canelo in that fight. Guerrero thinks that Mayweather spotted a weakness in Canelo’s game that make him decide to stand and trade.

Guerrero also said that if Mayweather had fought him like he did Canelo the outcome would have been different between them. Mayweather beat Guerrero by a 12 round unanimous decision by the scores 117-111, 117-111 and 117-111 last May in a one-sided fight.

Guerrero said to RingTV “It was very surprising to see Floyd fight in the pocket against Canelo…Canelo weighed close to super middleweight on fight night…I believe if Floyd would have fought me that way, it would have been a different fight. I think Floyd felt the sting of my punches, and after watching videos, he realized he couldn’t beat me on the inside. That’s why he moved around the round most of the fight.”

It sounds like Guerrero is delusional if he really believes that he would have stood a chance to beat Mayweather if he had stood in front of him more. Mayweather would have dominated Guerrero no matter how he fought him.

I think the only reason Mayweather chose to move a lot against Guerrero is because he’d been off for an entire year since his last fight in May of 2012, and he was possibly concerned about some ring rust. Mayweather might also have been worried about getting fouled by Guerrero because we saw him doing quite a bit of that in hi way over Andre Berto in his previous fight.

Guerrero held and hit Berto and dropped him that way and the referee let it go. Guerrero throws a lot of punches and some of his shots stray low when his opponents are standing in front of him. That too could have been a reason why Mayweather didn’t want to stand in front of Guerrero. Who wants to be nailed below the belt.

Guerrero was wrong about Canelo almost weighing as much as a super middleweight. At 165, that is super middleweight. The super middleweight division is 161-168. Canelo was well within the super middleweight limit. He wasn’t at the upper limit, but he was awfully close to it at 165. Mayweather did a good job of beating a guy that was 15 lbs. heavier than him and you’ve got to give Mayweather a ton of credit for having accomplished that.



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