Atlas: Mayweather will beat Guerrero

10(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Chris Williams: ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas is picking Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KO’s) to defeat Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KO’s) in their fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Atlas sees Mayweather as being too fast, too big and too talented for the roughhouse Guerrero in this fight. Atlas expects Guerrero to try and get in close to smother’s speed and work rate, but ultimately he doesn’t see this working for Guerrero.

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Mayweather v Guerrero: Preview

mayweather232By Peter Broderick: – “There’s no blueprint on how to beat Floyd Mayweather!”. If you’ve been watching  the Showtime series;  all access, or any other piece of media that features Floyd Mayweather of late, the preceding quote might seem familiar to you. Mayweather is never more than a couple of sentences away from reminding us that 43 have tried and 43 have failed to beat him, something he’s also been saying recently is that there’s no blueprint on how to beat him. But there is.

The Blueprint

When Oscar deLa Hoya fought Mayweather in 2007, many people thought that the Mexican won the first half of the fight. Mayweather was shipping rounds because he was finding it difficult to counter the jabs from the bigger man.

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Austin Trout seeks a rematch with Canelo Alvarez

trout011By Amos: Boxing fans had the pleasure to witness the highly anticipated WBC & WBA Junior Middleweight unification bout between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) and Austin “No Doubt” Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s). It was the fight which declared Saul “Canelo” Alvarez as the undisputed champion of the division.

However, after watching the fight, Austin Trout acknowledges he needed to do much, much more in order to decisively win the fight. Trout believed he would be able to out-box Canelo and completely dominate the fight to win a “lopsided decision.” However, Canelo surprised the boxing public and even Trout with an improved defense and footwork which had not been seen before. Canelo did not merely come forward and had a much different game plan than some writers thought he would have.

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Chris Arreola: Always close, but never close enough

arreola453By Dimond Dallas: The best thing that most people will say about Chris Arreola (35-3, 30 KO’s) is that he has always been so close to actually being a legitimate top tier heavyweight, but upon closer scrutiny I have always felt that he has never been close enough to justify that and he has never been fair to his own talent and potential.

I remember in the late 2000’s when Chris Arreola’s star was on the rise and he was touted by everyone as the next big thing in boxing, the Knockout sensation from America and they guy who everyone thought was going to be that mythical American Heavyweight who ushers in a new era of American dominance in heavyweight boxing. However, even his ardent of supporters back then ended their praise with the assessment that all he needs to do is loose some weight, get into shape and then he’s ready to step up to the big league.

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The Klitschko Brothers: The Truth

wlad#2By Tony Crooks: Let me start by saying that heavyweight champions Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko are perfect gentlemen, as one person commented on this site, they have never been in prison, they never hurt anyone, and in fact, they have been true ambassadors of the sport of boxing.

So why have they never been embraced by the British or American public and only by their own Nation of Ukraine and also by the German public? After the Soviet Union dispended, many people found solitude in various European states. People need heroes, we have our own agendas as to who they are, but that never changes the agenda.

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Klitschko destroys Pianeta

wlad43By Jim Dower: In a dreadful mismatch, IBO/IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (60-3, 51 KO’s) made easy work of a badly over-matched Francesco Pianeta (28-1-1, 15 KO’s) in the 6th round tonight at the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany.

Wladimir put Pianeta down three times in the fight, once in the 4th, 5th and a final time in the 6th. Wladimir finished Pianeta off with a left, right, left combination that sent Pianeta down on the canvas badly hurt.

To his credit, Pianeta staggered to his feet but the fight was stopped after the referee saw how hurt Pianeta was.

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Koncz: Pacquiao is willing to fight Mayweather, and we’ll do the blood tests

pac92By Chris Williams: Michael Koncz, the adviser for Manny Pacquiao, is saying that they’re willing to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. and they’ll agree to the blood tests for performance enhancing drugs as long as Mayweather agrees to the same testing.

Koncz told I Film London: “We’re open to that fight, we’ve always wanted that fight. Now it’s in Floyd’s court because Manny himself said on our last press tour when we fought [WBO welterweight champion Timothy] Bradley, that he’s willing to accept less. We’re willing to do the blood tests whenever and any kind of testing as long as Floyd does the same and we’re willing to give him 60% and we’ll take 40%.”

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Guerrero looking a little flabby around midsection for Mayweather fight

01(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Dan Ambrose: You’ve got to give Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero a great deal of credit for being able to move up two divisions to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. It was only four years ago that Guerrero was fighting at featherweight, and was one of the tallest biggest featherweights in the division.

Guerrero has basically eaten his way to the welterweight division, but doesn’t have the muscles or the power at this weight that he had at featherweight and super featherweight. Indeed, like a lot of fighters that put on a lot of weight in a short period of time, Guerrero is carrying around some flab.

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Trout: I beat Canelo, and I want a rematch!

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By Dan Ambrose: After having now watched his fight against WBC light middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) from last month on April 20th, former WBA junior middleweight champion (26-1, 14 KO’s) now firmly believes that he did more than enough to get the decision against the 22-year-old Canelo in their fight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

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Wladimir in stay busy fight against Pianeta tonight

IMG_1802(Photo credit: K-MG) By Eric Thomas: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (59-3, 50 KO’s) will be looking to capture his 60th career win over his former sparring partner Francesco Pianeta (28-0-1, 15 KO’s) at the SAP-Arena, in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Wladimir, 37, had been attempting to get a fight with WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin, but when he was unable to nail down the fight, he chose to get in an easy fight against the light hitting southpaw Pianeta just so that he can keep the rust from forming.

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