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The year 2021 has some intriguing fights stacked already. One such fight among the same is Floyd Mayweather vs Logan Paul’s charismatic exhibition bout. Earlier, the duo was supposed to fight each other on February 20th, but the bout somehow fell through.

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Despite that, both Paul and Mayweather assured their fans of staging this fight in the mightiest way later this year. In fact, the Youtuber turned boxer, Logan Paul, is leaving no stones unturned in preparations for the ‘Money’ fight.

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He even took some boxing lessons from the young gun Ryan Garcia. Garcia posted the whole video on his own YouTube channel, wherein he was seen teaching the ‘Maverick’ how to counter Floyd Mayweather’s greatest in-ring weapon, the pull counter.

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‘KingRy’ shows exactly how Floyd Mayweather sets his opponents up for a massive pull counter. He advised Paul to stay right on his toes throughout the fight and not move back against the undefeated boxing veteran.

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Garcia and Paul trained side by side, and the young gun taught Paul much more than just tackling Mayweather’s best shot.

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Mayweather has dispatched countless opponents with his strong pull-counter technique. He looks for one weakness in his opponent and then launches his favorite shot with all his might.

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This technique gave ‘Pretty Boy’ a lot of momentum and success in the ring and he will look to do the same against the lanky Logan Paul.

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Can Logan Paul realistically overpower Floyd Mayweather?

Paul has a cosmic cruiserweight frame coupled with crushing power. In his extensive career span, Mayweather has never faced someone as massive as ‘Maverick’.

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That said, Paul can capitalize on the same and give ‘Money’ a tough test inside the boxing ring.

Logan Paul will look to employ all his teachings in the biggest fight of his life. If he somehow gets past Mayweather in this exhibition bout, needless to say, he will etch his name in the history books.

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It’ll be interesting to see how Paul presents himself against the all-time boxing great.

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Prathamesh Singh Chauhan is a Boxing Author at EssentiallySports. He is a graduate from the International Institute of Sports Management who combines his love for sports, particularly combat sports, and his flair for writing and analysis to help him in his day-to-day work. He has prior professional experience with sporting organizations such as Star Sports, Khelo India, and NBA. Chauhan explores and analyses a sport he has been following ever since Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte engaged in a duel in 2015. He adores old-school punchers like Manny Pacquiao, as well as modern-day greats such as 'The Gypsy King'. In his downtime, he engages in rigorous workouts to cater to his love for fitness.

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