My opening question would be “How do you hurt a boxer who is hard to hurt?”, but before I get to that let me talk about a few things that I would like to share. The first time I started hearing fuzz about Floyd Mayweather Jr (45-0, 26 KO’s) was when he fought and beat Oscar De La Hoya in 2007. The first Mayweather fight I ever watched was Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton, which me being a Hatton fan hurt me to see him get KO’ed that way.
I have seen all his fights up to this present day and the obvious notoriety is, he has a really good defense, his counters are perfectly timed, his leg movement is very fast and agile, he has good head and upper body movements, and most importantly he manages to ALWAYS leave the ring without any serious damage. One of my mentors told me to always give things its proper respect regardless if your bias or not. Even though I am not a fan of Mayweather, I do recognize that he is a really good a boxer and has paid his dues to get to where he is at today.
I recently started following IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter (24-0-1, 15 KO’s). For the looks of it hes not a bad fighter. What caught my attention was his victory against Devon Alexander last December, a fighter which has only been beaten once aside from his lose to Shawn. Last night, I saw Porter completely destroy Paulie Malignaggi (33-6, 7 KO’s) in four rounds.