McGregor vs Mayweather 8/26/17

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Tank-locc said:
I was entertained. McGregor landed more punches than Manny did..fight was closer than expected. But that was partially by design. Floyd outclassed him easily once he decided it was time.

All in all, pretty solid showing imo
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Yeah it was pretty entertaining. I don't think it was close though i just think floyd didn't do much of anything at all the first few rounds because like always he takes a few rounds to see what his opponent is about, sees their speed, figures out the timing and then it's over.

The best example of this is the Shane Mosley fight where Shane landed some shots and then landed the monster shot that almost floored Floyd and it looked like Floyd was done for. But after that, it was a shut out, a clinic by Floyd and Shane never landed anything with substance again because Floyd figured him out.

He's just really good at figuring guys out. It's interesting to watch because it happens every fight.
 
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Yeah it was pretty entertaining. I don't think it was close though i just think floyd didn't do much of anything at all the first few rounds because like always he takes a few rounds to see what his opponent is about, sees their speed, figures out the timing and then it's over.

The best example of this is the Shane Mosley fight where Shane landed some shots and then landed the monster shot that almost floored Floyd and it looked like Floyd was done for. But after that, it was a shut out, a clinic by Floyd and Shane never landed anything with substance again because Floyd figured him out.

He's just really good at figuring guys out. It's interesting to watch because it happens every fight.
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Seriously. He really doesn't care about what the fans think he literally will do what it takes within the rules of boxing to win a fight.

Personally, I felt like he figured out Conor after the first round. The uppercut landed and Floyd was like,"there is no power behind it!" So he just decides to walk him down and wlk through those punches. Even he was kind of sloppy. It's like Floyd played the role of GGG and Conor was Kell brook. But Floyd was way smaller. Luckily I live by the border and Azteca showed it live. Actually, more live than the US because they delayed it a lil bit from what my homie told me because of ppv issues but fuck it. I didn't see much of boxing like I wanted to anyways because of my nephews birthday so its all good. I truly hope Floyd is retired and he got a KO to end it.
 
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Seriously. He really doesn't care about what the fans think he literally will do what it takes within the rules of boxing to win a fight.

Personally, I felt like he figured out Conor after the first round. The uppercut landed and Floyd was like,"there is no power behind it!" So he just decides to walk him down and wlk through those punches. Even he was kind of sloppy. It's like Floyd played the role of GGG and Conor was Kell brook. But Floyd was way smaller. Luckily I live by the border and Azteca showed it live. Actually, more live than the US because they delayed it a lil bit from what my homie told me because of ppv issues but fuck it. I didn't see much of boxing like I wanted to anyways because of my nephews birthday so its all good. I truly hope Floyd is retired and he got a KO to end it.
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Well if he was sloppy I think we all tend to forget he's 40 years old coming out of a two year retirement just for this fight. There are no other boxers we hold to such a high standard. No other 40 year old would fans demand absolute perfection out of.

Funny though that the 40 year old had all the energy late in the fight while the 28 year old was having a hard time breathing.

Sidenote, before the fight I had mentioned to Foul Mouth that it's different than MMA, 12 three minutes rounds with 1 minute break. And he went on in great detail about MMA five minute five rounds is more tiring, therefore not a problem for MMA guys to box 12. All I was saying is it's different, it's a different kind of pace and if you aren't used to it, you're gonna get fatigued. Sure enough Conor was looking fatigued by round 4, if not round 3. Now I know Conor isn't known for great cardio, but I wouldn't expect any MMA guy to be ready for 12 rounds just like I wouldn't expect a boxer to be ready for 3 rounds of mma.
 
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StillHustlin said:
20,000,000: Total number of pay-per-view sales generated by Mayweather fights before Saturday night’s event

Divided by 49 is a little better than a 400000 avg

LOL

Can't wait to see what this fight did
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Why divide by 49? It's not like his early fights we're all on PPV. He only had a few before Oscar, his first against Gatti, and once the Oscar fight happened and he was exposed to the masses did his PPVs really take off.

I believe he's had 15 total PPVs. Average of 1.25 million prior to yesterday.
 
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all in all I think this is a win for conor, he stood toe to toe with the best defensive boxer of this generation. won rounds( I gave him 4, maybe 5) and played with him a bit too. we all know how it was gonna go down with Floyd. the only thing that irks me is that conor's gas tank is shit. he's even saying it is. what may have happened if his stamina was all there might've been something crazy. I 100% disagree with the judges tho, they all had Floyd up big. his awkward style gave Floyd problems in the beginning too. those uppercuts were pretty nasty from conor.
 
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all in all I think this is a win for conor, he stood toe to toe with the best defensive boxer of this generation. won rounds( I gave him 4, maybe 5) and played with him a bit too. we all know how it was gonna go down with Floyd. the only thing that irks me is that conor's gas tank is shit. he's even saying it is. what may have happened if his stamina was all there might've been something crazy. I 100% disagree with the judges tho, they all had Floyd up big. his awkward style gave Floyd problems in the beginning too. those uppercuts were pretty nasty from conor.
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I thought he won the first three rounds at most and that was due to Floyd not doing anything - he threw a total of 6 punches in round 1, 10 punches in round 2 and 12 in round 3.

Floyd's gameplan is always to take the first 2-4 rounds to see what the guy is about, get their speed and timing down, make any adjustments he needs to and then take over, which is exactly what happened here too. Best examples of this are Shane Mosley and Zab Judah. Two guys who won the first 2-4 rounds - Shane landing a massive blow in round 2 that nearly floored him and Judah who was out Boxing him through four. In each fight Floyd completely dominated after.

So yes, Conor won the first few rounds but that had a lot to do with Floyd not doing much of anything at all and hardly even throwing any punches.

I definitely don't think Conor embarrassed himself or anything but I also don't think he really didn't anything that great either. I think he landed one significant punch, that uppercut in the first round, which didn't seem to phase Floyd.

His stamina was really weak too, I think it surprised Floyd after round 3 that he already had his mouth open. You could see Floyd and his corner laughing and joking around between the 3rd and 4th rounds.

I think that went well with Floyd's game plan of taking a few rounds to figure him out, let Conor throw a lot of punches without landing anything of real value (besides the uppercut in the first).

You talk about Paulie in your next post, I think that is a fight Conor could take in Boxing and probably win so maybe it's good for them Paulie is talking shit. He's always been a bitter guy, like talking so much shit about Pacquiao after Pac best Cotto who beat up Paulie. He's always been a bitch and I have no idea why anyone could like the guy. Sure he's not bad as an announcer but only because the others are typically so terrible.
 
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drunkaholic707 said:
goes to show how easy it is to box compared to mma in mma floyd is out cold in 10 seconds and conor lasted 10 rounds with the best boxer
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Floyd was retired and hasn't fought in two years. He's also 40 years old. Obviously not the guy he used to be.

He's not on any top ten pound 4 pound lists. Guys like Andre Ward, Lomachenko, Canelo, Golovkin, and so on are the best boxers right now.

Floyd hasn't had a legit KO in over ten years. That's not his thing obviously. The fact he turned so agressive and was more offensively minded than we've seen in years against a guy physically bigger (Floyd weighed in at 149 in a 154 pound fight where McGregor likely rehydrated to around 170 pounds) tells us all we need to know about where his opponent was at.

But he is lucky though that it wasn't a guy like Canelo in the ring with him, someone who would have seriously hurt him. But that was part of the reason why he took this fight - make massive amount of money against a guy who can't physically hurt people that badly due to his brittle hands). I don't think Conor would have taken a Cane fight for example if Floyd wasn't an option (even if the money was similar).

I think if it were so easy we'd see a lot more MMA guys in boxing since you can make more money. Other than this we haven't seen it. We've seen Holly Holm make the transition from boxing to MMA though, and be pretty successful, I mean she was the first to beat UFCs biggest star at the time and this was after she starteded to go down hill in boxing so I'm sure it's possible with a lot of training.
 
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StillHustlin said:
Conor lasted 10 rounds with the best boxer because the best boxer let him

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Oh I see you continue to have reading comprehension problems! Cool!

-Floyd hasn't had a legit KO in 10 years, has brittle hands (as Conor mentioned numerous times) and doesnt KO people. Conor was his first legit KO since Ricky Hatton in 2007).

-I said Conor won the first few rounds because Floyd wasn't doing anything (6 punches, 10 punches and 12 punches rounds 1, 2, and 3 respectively). That's how Floyd always fights - takes 2-4 rounds to see what the opponent is about then typically takes over.

Is any of that incorrect? No?
 
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