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Mayweather is a great boxer and picked apart Gatti but I dont think Gatti had the right game plan going in. I can never understand why punchers always try and box with boxers. I doesnt make sense. Before this fight went down I thought Gatti had a chance to upset Mayweather if he stayed on the inside, worked the body through the early rounds until Mayweather dropped his hands so Gatti could go for the knockout. Instead his game plan was to stay on the outside and circle away from Floyds power shots, trying to work the jab at an angle & take away Floyds ring generalship. This made no sense to me and as soon as I saw that Gatti was content trying to out box Mayweather it was obvious the fight was over.
Im not saying that the outcome would have been any different but Gatti's only shot to win that fight was on the inside. He never even tried to get in on him. He was content sitting on the outside and trying to work his jab, but it wasnt there because of Floyds speed. Had he gone in on Floyd from the beginning both working the body and leaning on him to help make him tire I think the fight could have been more entertaining. I mean Gatti was getting clobbered anyways so why not sell out get peppered with a few shots to get inside and then turn it into a brawl. Thats how Gatti defined his career in the first place.
This fight reminded me of the the Roy Jones - John Ruiz fight when Jones fought for the heavywheight title a few years ago. Both fights made absolutely no sense.
sleeves
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