Floyd Mayweather's legacy

Floyd Mayweathers legacy

Floyd Mayweather is coming off a year away from the boxing ring and put on a 12 round boxing clinic on the overmatched Robert Guerrero to keep his record to a perfect 44-0 with 26 wins by KO. In the fight Mayweather showed off his amazing speed and his legendary defensive ability as Guerro could barely hit him, and Floyd also used his lightening quick hands to land numerous blows to Guerro. So where does Floyd Mayweather rank historically Mayweather himself has said on numerous occasions that he is the greatest fighter of all time. I wouldn’t go as far as saying mayweather is the best fighter of all time but he is by far the best fighter of his era beating numerous champions such as Arturo Gatti, Zab Judah, Oscar Delahoya, and Ricky hatton, Cotto, Shane Mosley and Juan Manuel Marquez. Mayweather is recognized as the greatest defensive fighter of all time rarely getting hit with clean shots and also known for his great ring Kraft and multiple combination blows. The only things that are so called damaging to Mayweathers legacy is one the fighters of his era Floyd can fight with his c game stuff an still come out on top, and the other is so called ‘ducking” opponents as his critics say he ducked fights with Antonio Margarito and Manny Pacaquio two fighters who suffered k.o loss to Shane Mosley and Juan Manuel Marquez two fighters Floyd Dominated. I don’t believe Floyd is the best fighter of all time, but it isn’t a stretch to have him  in consideration I would put him in the same category in the top  7 with the great Sugar Ray Leonard who said this about Floyd “He is the epitome of a champion”.

Who is Next for Floyd

Who is next for Floyd?

After a year away from the ring the pound for pound number 1 fighter Floyd Mayweather made his return to the ring and dominated Robert Guerrero for 12 rounds to win a unanimous decision victory. Floyd showed no rust in the ring as he used his amazing speed and elusiveness to dodge every punch Guerrero threw and Floyd used his amazing hand speed to tag Guerro throughout the entire fight so the question is who will Floyd fight on September 12 here are some potential  opponents

1 Canel Alvarez 42-0-1 32 KO’s

Canelo Alvarez the WBC Light Middle weight has been put on the center stage recently as the newest guy who people think can beat Floyd Canelo is a young aggressive fighter who has power and is coming off an impressive win over Austin Trout but Canelo is also scheduled to fight on September 12th a Canelo vs. Floyd is the fight most boxing fans want to see.

2 Amir Khan 28-3 19 KO’s

Just a few years ago Khan was thought as boxing’s next superstar a couple losses later and Khan isn’t looked at in the same way but he is still an extremely talented fighter who has been running his mouth about Floyd for quite some time so if the fight did happen the promo leading up to the fight could be filled with legendary trash talk.

3Manny Pacquiao 54-5-2 38 KO’s

The mega fight that all of boxing world wanted a few years ago has lost some of its luster especially after Pacquiao’s brutal knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez but this fight would still be a big time box office draw between the 2 biggest boxing stars of this era.

4 Juan Manuel Marquez 55-6-1 40 KO’s

Juan Manuel Marquez and Floyd fought in 2009 and Floyd dominated the fight but coming off that huge knock out win over Manny maybe Juan would like to get revenge against Floyd.

5 Miguel Cotto 37-4 30 KO’s

Cotto and Floyd fought an entertaining fight which Cotto landed a few hard punches on Floyd and looked impressive in defeat Cotto lost his last fight to Austin Trout but Cotto is still a big name who did enough in the first fight with Floyd to make a potential rematch seem interesting.

Pacers Take Game 1

The Pacers take game 1 over the New York Knicks the final score of the game was 102 to 95. The Pacers were the bigger and more physical team through out the game Roy Hibbert presence was felt through out the game as he scored 14 points had 8 rebounds 5 block shots and altered many other shots at the rim. The Pacers had a balance scoring act with David West, Paul George Hibbert, George Hill, Lance Stephenson and D.J Augustin all scoring in double digits. Raymond Felton was effective for the Knicks scoring 18 points on 8-12 shooting but New York two leading scorers Carmelo Anthony and J.R Smith combined to go 14-43 in the loss. The Pacers out toughed the Knicks in game 1 to get the 1-0 series lead the Knicks will need their stars Carmelo Anthony and J.R Smith to score more efficiently if they want to tie the series up at 1-1 on Tuesday.

Lakers shouldn't go after Brandon Jennings

 Lakers should not go after Brandon Jennings

The Lakers need to get younger faster and more athletic especially on the perimeter but going after free agent to be Brandon Jennings isn’t the answer. Jennings is from California so I’m sure he would be very interested in coming back  home to play for the Lakers, but the Lakers shouldn’t go after him while Jennings is an extremely fast explosive scorer evidence by his career high 55 points as an rookie he wouldn’t be a good fit in LA. Jennings is an 2 guard in a pg. body he is a high volume shooter career fg percentage around 40% and isn’t an pass first pg. 6.5 apg is his career high, while signing Jennings would look like a nice splash name wise it wouldn’t be wise in a basketball sense.

Biggest winner of the 2013 NFL Draft

The biggest winner of the 203 NFL Draft

You can’t really judge a draft class until at least 4 years but the biggest winner in our opinion of this draft is the Sanfrancisco 49ners

1 49ners – The 49ners came into the draft with the most picks and in our opinion came out with the most potential impact players Eric Reid is an

athletic hard hitting safety who fits the Dashon Goldson mode they also selected 2 athletic pass rushers in Tank Carradine and Corey Lemonier who will be rotation Players that will help Aldon and Justin Smith on the edge and Quinton Patton is an wr who runs very good routes and can beat press coverage could challenge for the number 3 wr spot and they got two high upside low risk rewards in the athletic Vance McDonald and Marcus Lattimore.

Biggest Reaches in the 1st round of the 2013 NFL Draft

Biggest reaches in the first round

1 Bills 16^th overall pick E.J Manuel E.J Manuel has all the physical tools he is tall athletic fast big arm and can make all the throws but he has constantly underachieved at FSU and failed to show up in big games and how the draft ended up going qbs like Geno Smith Ryan Nassib and Matt Barkley would have been there in the 2^nd round and the Bills wouldn’t have had to reach to take Manuel.

2 Cowboys 31th overall pick Travis Frederick – The Cowboys had a very interesting 1^st round they

traded down  with the 49ners from the 18^th pick to 31^st pick and only got a third round pick from the 49ners while passing on players such as Sharif Floyd and Eric Reid 2 players who would have been good fits in Dallas new Tampa 2 defense Monte Kiffin will be running they also passed up on Matt Elam on the 31^st pick to take a Center Travis Frederick who most scouts called an third round prospect.

3 Bears 20^th overall pick Kyle Long- Long is a very good athlete for an offensive linemen and has strong blood lines son of hall of famer Howie Long brother of probowler Chris long but Long is still somewhat a project even for a team needy of offensive linemen like the Bears are as Long became a starter at Oregon for the first time last season.