Just saw this thread......I posted these comments in the sports forum last night. My 2 cents:
I was a little underwhelmed by Mayweather tonight. Although he was easily the more efficient fighter, it almost seemed like he was playing an NHL-style trap. One punch, roll out........one punch, roll out, etc. Effective, and it obviously won him the fight, but I was kind of bored watching the guy. Too bad, since he seems quick enough and has enough power to be a very exciting guy to watch in the ring. I sure won't be rushing out to watch any of his fights in the future.
Even Oscar mentioned after the fight that if he didn't press the action there wouldn't have been a fight at all. Not far from the truth, IMO.
That being said, Mayweather did deserve to win, I'm still in shock in went to a split decision. Not sure what the one judge was thinking.
Although I was rooting for Oscar (and so was the vast, vast majority at the MGM), it was clear he was a bit too slow, and a bit overpowered by Mayweather. It was great to see him be the more aggressive boxer (by a mile), but he was landing a lot less punches (percentage-wise) and was doing a lot of running around trying to press the action.
The big question tonight will be 'what happened to his left jab'? Fairly effective when he used it, but for some reason he didn't use it near as much as expected. Even he couldn't explain after the fight why he didn't. Kind of strange.
On a side note, I wasn't too impressed with Mayweather after the fight in the ring when he said (I believe 3 different times):
"God is never wrong."
You like god.......we get it. Can't we just talk about the fight?
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