"""""but,i will say again...look at his competition since his rebirth.... a shot millett,ward 3 times...branco,dorin,leija.....
all either smallish,over the hill or fighting above weight... smallish except branco and ward......branco can`t punch...ward takes a beating in the dressing room by the guy using the target mitts(lol).....
they both fought manfredy in the same year...he k.o.`ed gatti....mayweather k.o.`ed manfredy in 2....granted,7 years ago...
and ivan roninson gave gatti fits....mayweather is a sort of robinson....times 10....
gatti has to jump on floyd...how many times have we seen guys that are underdogs win when they take the fight right to the fave,recently....notice how tentative glen johnson was in the second fight...and tarver picked him to pieces... i know he loves that new jab...but he won`t outbox floyd,jr......
who gave floyd the most trouble?....not corrales....who stood outside and got the hell beat out of himself....
it was castillo....who pressured floyd....he may have actually won the first fight...
gatti has to jump on floyd...and hurt him to the body...push him to the ropes..get the pro-gatti crowd into it...build some momentum early...ala ricky hatton....if ricky had been patient,tszyu would still be champ....and johnson wouldn`t have beaten jones and tarver....and brewster wouldn`t have beaten golota..barrera/morales 3....pacquaio/marquez.....etc...etc...
if you are out-talented(not so in all of the above),you have to start quickly...and,as i said, i actually think that the judges,with the crowd and all,will be looking to help gatti if possible...that`s what i think...
but,if he stands outside with mayweather,i doubt he goes 12... floyd will pick him to pieces...much like corrales..
i`m not sold on mcgirt as a super trainer....i think he`ll have gatti do what he did with the shorter,less quick guys like leija..... and that`s a mistake..
he was outboxed by manfredy and robinson... and if i recall,gatti was having some trouble with branco ...i remember mcgirt telling gatti after the 8th that he "had to win the last 4 rounds"....
branco..fairly slow...jab and a right hand...no power...but he was dropping the right hand on gatti early...maybe gatti overlooked him...but,gatti struggles with boxers that are around his height...
he has to use his size and those monster hooks to the body...
if he takes the fight to floyd....uses that strength to bully floyd....gets the crowd into it...gets big crowd reaction every time he does something positive....and doesn`t break up,who knows... it`s boxing...
who thought castillo could fluster floyd?....but,he did...
but........in the real world...
mayweather ...possibly via a cut or multiple punch stoppage late...if gatti thinks he`s a boxer vs this caliber of fighter,and tries to be cute,it could get real ugly...
i have alot tied up in parlays with floyd,jr.....so i`m hedging gatti at 8-1 inside the distance....and maybe a little by decision if the odds are high enough...
styles make fights...and i see this as a bad style for gatti..."""
amen.....the gatti charade is over....if mcgirt was half as good a trainer as he was at protecting gatti,you`d have something....
he had exactly the absolute worst strategy possible for gatti....to stand outside and box him....
mcgirt is a clown as a trainer....there,i said it...
but,he manuevered gatti into a huge payday....and actually had some believing that gatti was a great fighter....
kudos to mcgirt for getting gatti to a place he really shouldn`t have been...and getting him paid...
and even though no plan would probably have changed the outcome,boooo to mcgirt for not at least letting gatti try to win by going after mayweather...
horrible fight plan...
floyd was fantastic...vs the perfect opponent and a gameplan that floyd couldn`t have drawn up anymore favorably for himself.....
why didn`t i drop a few on maussa?...i saw him discourage resto...i knew he`d be difficult....
oh well,why be greedy.....
congrats all...i doubt that anybody at jacks even thought about gatti....
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