Teddy Atlas: Floyd didn't carry Conor

I’ve never found this debate very interesting to be honest. Floyd was always a safety first boxer, especially once he was way past his best. They knew that the only conceivable way that they could lose was by a random KO when Conor was fresh. Credit to Conor for being poised and confident like he always is, he’s a talented striker and he performed better than expected. But the outcome was never in doubt, and if he’d fought a lesser boxer with a different style he probably would’ve been finished much faster.
 
Conor had no chance in a boxing match even if he showed some striking skill. Flyod knows every trick to win there is. All he had to do every time Conor had a chance to score was turn his back to Conor and the action stopped. Conor tried. For Flyod it was a business transaction.
 
I’ve been a huge boxing fan for 25 years ...Floyd completely carried him
 
wisdom blows said:
Yes.

Floyd fought like Floyd always fights. Safe, defensive, counter punching. Conor is much bigger and longer, and likely much better than Floyd realized. After Conor started to gas Floyd took over, but that doesn’t negate some of the clean shots Conor landed in the first few rounds. Very few fighters have landed as clean on Floyd as Conor did, even if it seemed to have little effect. Watching him slip and rip Mayweather in rd. 1 was surreal.
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Floyd walked him down which he hadnt done since he was 135 lb fighter. He got hit only cause he was walking forward . He didn’t use his philly shell hardly at all and fought stylistically nothing like he usually does. I like Teddy but I think he’s dead wrong in this .
 
That was a 40+ years old Floyd Mayweather coming off his couch and having a 300mil exhibition fight.
Give him an extra 300mil to finish Conor within 4 and he would have done it <Fedor23>
 
what does this teddy atlas guy know about boxing anyway?!

i'd rather trust the opinion of random obsessed conor haters on here who haven't done anything in their life and would never give conor credit for anything.
 
i just like listening to teddy atlas, i have zero idea who is right and wrong, great storyteller
 
Shaddows said:
If Floyd pushed Conor with the same intensity he did on later rounds, COnor wouldn't pass the third round.

If that's not carrying, you call it however you want.
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I think that's the whole point of what Teddy said that it's not Floyds style to do that. He never fights like he did beyond the 6th round moving forward. Floyd fought like he always does early, the counter puncher looking for one shots and then changed things up mid fight when he sensed he needs to get going and the opportunity was there cause he felt Conor wasn't threatening him with his power shots and that he was getting fatigued.

Even if Floyd fought like that early he wouldn't of finished Conor. Floyds style became effective once Conors cardio started going down. His power shots didn't have the same pop and his defense was far more open. Early on Conor was still a threat with his power and he managed distance well and fought well defensively. The way Floyd fought later in the fight would be more risky and less effective early in the fight.
 
wisdom blows said:
Yes.

Floyd fought like Floyd always fights. Safe, defensive, counter punching. Conor is much bigger and longer, and likely much better than Floyd realized. After Conor started to gas Floyd took over, but that doesn’t negate some of the clean shots Conor landed in the first few rounds. Very few fighters have landed as clean on Floyd as Conor did, even if it seemed to have little effect. Watching him slip and rip Mayweather in rd. 1 was surreal.
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No he didn't floyde never walks in a straight line with arms up just taking punches.
 
It still completely baffles me how some people refuse to accept the truth that Floyd purposefully allowed the fight appear to be somewhat “competitive” in the early the rounds to secure the grounds for a possible rematch/payday in the future.

If Floyd played Floyd by using his defense in the early rounds to make Conrat looking like the overconfident clown he is and then finished him in the mid rounds.. who would bother coughing up the cheese to watch a rematch?

In denial and disillusioned accurately describe these aforementioned people..
 
Conor landed that uppercut nicely. Every single other punch was awful, always the wrong angle or distance or just glancing or landing with the sides of the glove. Floyd was toying with him.
 
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