How many rounds did you lot think McGregor took? I had him as winning a couple, possibly three at a push.
Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather | Again?
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I was thinking bigger than that. That'll be exciting for boxing fans but not going to draw in many others in the way Mayweather/Pacquiao did.
Conor will probably kick the shit out of Floyd in a street fight but it wasn't about that, it was about boxing. As a MMA fighter Conor didn't have what it takes to go the distance in the ring. Floyd was toying with him all along and anyone could see that Conor's legs were gone around the 6th round.
Ye. I agree. They're doing the talk to build up the hype. It's just things people do for a living.
First two. Three was a swing round but I gave it to Floyd. Everything after that was Floyd's.
Most of the press seem to give McGregor 4 rounds.
I'm amazed that he did so well given who he was fighting and his lack of boxing experience. Barring a knockout he was never going to win, doubly so once past half way.
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The Fitness/Medical association or something related to boxing did not want this game to happen. They thought it's too dangerous.
Again, apologies for being unclear - I meant big enough to go beyond boxing fans.
It will be interesting to see if and how boxing and boxers tries turn the interest in this fight into more buys for upcoming fights.
Hey man, Canelo-GGG could do 2m PPV buys in the States
There isn't going to be one. Maybe when Joshua has a massive fight, that might draw in more casual fans who don't care for boxing generally.
Mayweather versus Hulk Hogan.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. There was a later round too (I forget which, maybe 6) where no one landed anything as far as I could tell.
Happens all the time in boxing. Often the mismatch is far far bigger.
He didn't even go at a crazy pace early on, he wasn't throwing an absurd high volume or chasing a knockout. His gas tank is just poor.
If you watch the 2nd Diaz fight, he was worried about gassing like he did in their first fight, so he really took his time early on, didn't expend unnecessary energy, and still gassed after 9 minutes.
Give Mcgregor a decent gas tank and that might end up a close fight, his size, reach, speed and movement were enough to make it competitive whilst he was still fresh.
I just found it hard to give Conor any rounds after 2 because there was nothing behind his punches.
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I think conor took the first 3 then it was all Floyd.
I got the feeling that after that Floyd could have finished him off anytime after that if he really wanted to.
I got the feeling that after that Floyd could have finished him off anytime after that if he really wanted to.
I have heard such before. I'm not okay with it.
It's different when it's the sport's showpiece though.
It was what you saw. A shut out after round 2.
I think most aren't that invested really, but deep down we are still the same as the Romans baying for blood in the Colosseum.
He took none. He hit Mayweather with a couple of jabs but it essentially all Mayweather's. The judges - they're boxing judges- how you think they scored the card? In any case, Floyd was in control at all times, apart from when McGreggor hit him on the back of the head.
It's very 'bring back hanging' if you put it like that.
We have technology, these days. We can alleviate our sick minds by killing people in computer games. We don't need to witness people thrown to the lions.
I think it hurts him in the sense that it is clear as daylight that he is not really a boxer. This should be the only time he will be stepping on to the boxing ring because quite clearly, his best was nowhere near enough and unless he wants to fight lower ranked players, he has no future in boxing.
I'm not ok with it either but there have been lots of show piece fights that have been hugely one-sided.
Boxing and MMA are indefensible morally for a number of reasons.
It's not limited to combat sport. Maybe it's just the culture of where I lived but heard plenty of 'break his fecking leg' watching football during childhood/teenage years.
It's just how it is.
Another win for the pros!
Quite true.
I dare say I've made my view known, and was a bit lucky to have been allowed to do so having slagged off combat sport from the moment I entered this thread weeks ago.
Should probably leave it to the boxing fans to discuss the boxing match.
Surely he took the first two rounds. Mayweather had 8 punches in those two rounds.
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I'm not sure how the judges had it scored at the time of the stoppage. Have they/do they reveal that? It looked to me like McGregor won the first couple of rounds (while never looking like he had a realistic chance of actually winning the fight) Not sure how you'd give the first two rounds to Mayweather, but I don't know shit about boxing so I could very well be completely wrong.
Or it could go the other way and maybe Mcgregor will begin to venture into even more other sports...
Mcgregor vs Wiggins in a bike race for example. With Mcgregor 'shocking the World' by doing a few laps on one of those tracks.
Or Mcgregor vs Tom Daley in a 'dive off', with Connor doing a somersault and again 'silencing the doubters'.
Not on my card. McGregor was aggressive but he didn't land anything. In my opinion Mayweather navigated anything McGregor threw at him. I find it intoxicating - someone dodging punches at will.
If we have anymore red cards I'd have him in midfield alongside Kante.
From what I've seen on Sky box office - Mayweather was up on all the cards. (Could be wrong as I'm absolutely fecked out my face!)
He'll shock the World by making a few simple passes, and though you'll get beat 8-2, it'll still be a victory of sorts...I gather.
Yeah yeah but the amount of Irish wasters that will somehow turn this into a positive