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McGregor vs Mayweather

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Who will win?


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Totally... I don't think Mayweather's camp wanted a disqualification or any kind of point deduction at all... Listening to their corner, they were totally unconcerned. It was also telling that after the first 6 rounds, they pretty much told him to put him away, and .. in 3 rounds.. he KO'd him. Very unlike Mayweather.. at least, not over the past 8 years or so.

Oh yeah...imagine the uproar if Mayweather won the fight in a decision because of a deducted point. They wouldn't want any part of that.
 
Whats the payday looking like?
 
I'd say at this point Mayweather should probably avoid fighting any young cats. Think a lot of people better conditioned for a 12 round boxing match would be able to walk through his punches now.

Put him in there against some 30 year old professional boxer, who knows how to control himself more, not sure Floyd wants to do that at his age.

And then that said, Floyd has always just fought to the level necessary to beat his competition. He fights better fighters, and he steps his game up. So you've never really been able to predict his next fight based on his last.

But the biggest advantage he's always had and still has is he's the best conditioned combat athlete in the world.

I just don't know if he wants to fight someone who won't start everyone round throwing 20 punches in 10 seconds anymore.
 
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Pretty much how I had it.. didn't give the first 3 to McGregor, but could see the argument for 3 rounds over the first 4 or 5.
 
I have no idea how the fuck boxing scoring works.

I also have never seen a guy turn his back on his opponent when close like Mayweather did. Is that normal?
 
I have no idea how the fuck boxing scoring works.

I also have never seen a guy turn his back on his opponent when close like Mayweather did. Is that normal?

It happened quite a bit, but for two different reasons..

About half the time early on, McGregor was switching stances quite quickly and sidestep jabbing .. actually quite impressive I thought. You could tell Mayweather was caught off guard by McGregor's speed (he got popped a few times in the first few rounds), and would put his guard up and immediately retreat, to which point McGregor would clinch and then almost instinctively stepping to his side (as if this were MMA).

After being called on this, Mayweather started just turning around, knowing McGregor would just punch over his back... He got called out for this about 3 times.

From Mayweather's perspective it was a way of protecting himself while draining McGregor. From McGregor's perspective.. who knows? Not really sure why he didn't realize what was going on?

His best best would be to try and land something under Mayweather's guard or simply back up (as his corner instructed him to do), rather than flurry over his back to no effect or continue with the hammer punches.

I think if McGregor could do it over, he wouldn't waste the energy; essentially punching himself out over the first half of the fight swinging into nothing.
 
I guess what I'm saying is neither of these guys no matter how much training are going to be successful in each other's sport.

I'm not sure about that. Going in I didn't think McGregor had a chance against Mayweather as a first time boxer, that's just ridiculous to have your first boxing match be against the best boxer in the world. And for the most part, it went about like I expected. Mayweather is too experienced, composed, and well trained to lose to a first time boxer.

The longer the fight went on, the more his lack of experience showed. But with years of training to really understand and execute the nuances of the sport, it's certainly possible for someone like McGregor to be a successful boxer. I doubt he does that, though, he not only just made a massive amount of money, he's most likely increased his MMA paydays.
 
No, it's called a hammer fist punch, and typically results in a warning, then a point deduction. Connor got away with it about a dozen or so times... but, I don't think Mayweather even asked for an intervention, nor did his corner.. Quite telling.

I think it's telling because Mayweather, in a real fight, if he gives up his back like that would actually get hit with legal punches.

Against Connor, he knew he'd get the natural mma punch from a back mount.
 
I think it's telling because Mayweather, in a real fight, if he gives up his back like that would actually get hit with legal punches.

Against Connor, he knew he'd get the natural mma punch from a back mount.

Yep! That's a very good point...
 
Conor lasted a lot longer than I thought he would. I was impressed, but, he has no shot in boxing in my opinion.
 
The things I hate, though.

Floyd is a boring 50-0. I legitimately do not think he's as good as advertised, and that he built a career on blocking and dodging punches.

I also fundamentally believe that if someone used the angles that Connor did and actually knew how to throw a boxing punch, they'd have shortened his career. His angles and his game plan prior to being gassed was absolutely phenomenal. Never saw someone just tap Floyds face so effortlessly. Just no power because he can't throw a boxing punch.

Sad for boxing though. Outside of GGG, any stars? Not really.
 
I have no idea how the fuck boxing scoring works.

Each round is scored (by 3 judges), usually the boxer who better controlled the round wins it 10-9, if one boxer knocks the other one down, or totally dominates the round, they win 10-8. It's not about who throws the most punches, especially if they are missing on most of them or the opponent is effectively defending them and effectively landing quality counterpunches.

Tonight Mayweather:
Power punches landed: 152 of 261 (58%)
Total punches landed: 170 of 320 (53%)

McGregor
Power punches landed: 84 of 332 (25%)
Total punches landed: 111 of 430 (26%)
 
Whats the payday looking like?

TBD.

Mayweather was guaranteed 100M and McGregor was guaranteed 30M, but both guys are going to make substantially more once the PPV buys and ticket sales are tallied.

My guess...

230M for Floyd, 70M for McGregor.
 
The things I hate, though.

Floyd is a boring 50-0. I legitimately do not think he's as good as advertised, and that he built a career on blocking and dodging punches.

I also fundamentally believe that if someone used the angles that Connor did and actually knew how to throw a boxing punch, they'd have shortened his career. His angles and his game plan prior to being gassed was absolutely phenomenal. Never saw someone just tap Floyds face so effortlessly. Just no power because he can't throw a boxing punch.

Sad for boxing though. Outside of GGG, any stars? Not really.

That's a pretty important skill for a boxer

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let's get Floyd in an MMA fight so Connor can return the favor in less than 30 seconds.


I know it won't happen so noone get their panties in a bunch.
 

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