Gatti was hitting with power, he just couldn't land enough of them. It seemed like every time he'd throw one Mayweather just came back with three of his own. He said after the fight he didn't expect Maywether to be so fast, and it showed. I was hoping Gatti would win, but man, Mayweather looked good.
The Maussa-Harris undercard just before was an amazing fight, too. Maussa had the weirdest style I'd ever seen in a professional fight. He stepped back and dropped his hands repeatedly to taunt and gloat, threw completely wild punches from stances so strange he was virtually standing on one foot for some of them, slipped and weaved so effectively I could have sworn that he was psychic (all the while with his guard completely down and hands down at his sides), and at one point jumped in from four feet away to make a completely undisguised and unprovoked head butt, for which he received a warning. When he knocked Harris out, he jumped on him and punched him again in the head while he was flat on his back on the canvas. The guy was a total lunatic, and now I've got to see his next fight just to know what he'll do next.
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