Tying a heavy medal ball to his head and using his back neck muscles to lift it up is not healthy in my opinion, but it's his life career. Thats an area lots of wieght lifters use pain killers to stop the headaches and pain.

To pace himself for a twelve round fight. When did u ever see Floyd half gassed? Those technique help him be more efficient. Boxers who explode on the mits usually load on there punches and cant get the same performance over a 12 rounder.

Floyd focuses on quick bursts each round, preferably in the last few seconds before the bell rings, to leave a lasting impression on the judges. He probably got that from Ali and Ray Leonard.

I just got home and I'm tired, so I'll just copy and paste my answer from another question the other day where I kind of touched on his mitt-work routine a little, if you care at all to read it.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

Agreed with Alkhal.

Both he and his trainer must feel that this technique benefits best his style of boxing.

The way Floyd Mayweather hits the heavy bag and hits the mitts are unconventional. normal boxer on the heavy bag simulate a fight kind of, and on the mitts they normal have their coach call out the punches and they throw them. But with mayweather being in my eyes #1 boxer of all time, i want to know what are the benafits because there has to be some