Mayweather easily outboxed Castillo in the early rounds of the first bout, but as the fight progressed Mayweather became less and less mobile (which I heard was due to a rotator cuff injury) and often laid against the ropes and sometimes went toe to toe with his much larger opponent, which allowed Castillo to effectively pressure him with consistent body punching and occasional head shots for a number of rounds.
I still gave Mayweather a close hard fought decision though. I believe he still won more rounds overall, especially the earlier ones, it's just that Castillo won his rounds in more dominant fashion. You also have to take into account that the referee took a point away from both fighters in 2 of the later rounds for fouls, one in which I think Mayweather did enough to win it regardless and another in which I felt Castillo did not. Still probably the most competitive fight Mayweather has been involved in , but he surely erased whatever doubts anyone may have had in the rematch they had 8 months later.
Floyd fought the first fight against Castillo with a rotator cuff injury. After the fight, Floyd had surgery on his shoulder, then had an immediate rematch where he clearly won the fight, and made it clear to everyone who was really the better between the two.
This is fact, not opinion.
With that said, I think the reasoning to the first fight being close is pretty self explanatory.
I've boxed in Puerto Rico and i can say with confidence that ''styles make fights'' does NOT only mean ''styles will determine the winner'', what it means 99% of the time is ''styles will determine how one wins'' [be it by ko or decision].
The reality is that the faster stronger fighter usually wins. This is why there are weight divisions.
Canelo Alvarez did not train as hard as Mayweather, he focused more on loosing weight then anything.
Castillo trained his *** off against Floyd and i think he won. Oscar did not train as much as Floyd but he was bigger then Floyd and in exceptional shape.
Watch fighters media workout if you want to win money on bets.
Watch this video at 3:13 mark;
Definitely down to Mayweather's style of fight back then. But Castillo beat him the first time, I had him winning that by 3 rounds, he got robbed big time. But I gave him the nudge over De La Hoya by 1 round
Castillo didn't give Mayweather any problems. What was giving Mayweather problems was a torn rotator cuff. It's sad that people always look back to a fight where Mayweather was injured to try to find a weak point.
I think age had a lot do with it. Floyd was inexperienced
I am trying to find out how JLC gave Mayweather so much trouble in both their fights. He wasn't one of the best fighters Mayweather has faced.....but somehow him (and maybe De La Hoya) gave him the most trouble
What was it about JLC's style that gave the trouble. And why can't other fighters replicate this?
