MacGregor/Mayweather Who You Got and Did You Buy the Live Version?

[calamity]

I got this partially right. McGregor was much more controlled than what I thought he'd be but the fight didn't turn until he was tired and then Mayweather went after him after he couldn't defend himself very well. Pretty piss-poor, imo, for someone to run so much when he was in his own element.

Floyd has always been a careful fighter.

Watching it this AM, I thought he should have gone in for the KO around the sixth round not waited until the tenth. Fight was over after five.

It looked to me like MayW just wanted to be sure McG had no power left in his arms. Doing that makes sense. I guess. He completely owned him in rounds nine and ten.

 

[calamity]

The event is over and more or less went the way many thought it would.

I hear the estimated purse for Mayweather is around 300 million. How is that possible? I know ringside seats were $10,000 but still $300 million for one fight. I guess I am weak in understanding the economics of pay for view. That is something like the total salary cap for a season of two NFL teams. It blows me away.

10 Million $100 PPV. Do the math.

 

[Crovax]

Aww someone mad

I dont know, are you mad that someone who has been convicted 3 times of woman beating keeps getting off with a slap on the wrist?

 

[calamity]

I dont know, are you mad that someone who has been convicted 3 times of woman beating keeps getting off with a slap on the wrist?

Money talks. Why do you hate capitalism when Black people use it to their advantage?

 

[Crovax]

Money talks. Why do you hate capitalism when Black people use it to their advantage?

So if you have money hitting women is cool with you?

 

[Trippy Trekker]

don't know how long it will last up on youtube but... full fight:

Thank you Rob!

Not to discount Cocky McGregor's effort. During the 9th round, Conner looked totally spent by mid-round... and barely made it into the 10th. IMO, the ref made an appropriate decision to stop the fight. The stoppage demonstrates some reasonable concern for the long term health of the combatants. The more skilled boxer preserved his legacy. The MMA fighter left the ring wealthy beyond imagination with his dignity intact. Fans watched an entertaining boxing match. All smiles! Donald Trump remains POTUS ... and the World continues to spin.

 

[presluc]

don't know how long it will last up on youtube but... full fight:

I thank you for that powerRob I appreciate that very much.eace

 

[calamity]

So if you have money hitting women is cool with you?

If you have money, you can probably get away with killing one. See OJ and Robert Blake for just two of many examples of that.

 

[slick]

Wow! Amazing you got to see that, Slick!

When I met Carmen Basilio, he was a worked-over old man who couldn't keep his hands to himself when female reporters or photogs were around. But he had a certain old-school charm. Even the women he pawed kinda liked him.

Once his fighting days were over, he retired to Rochester, NY (where I live) and worked at the Genesee bottling plant for a bit, before he started getting invites to sporting banquets and whatnot. He died like 5 years ago.

Oh, and you got to see Robinson too. I GUESS THAT'S KINDA NICE

Yea, my dad was a big boxing fan & was friendly with Abe Green the NJ Boxing commissioner. Because of that my brother &
myself used to get free passes to the old MSG & saw many great fights. On his way up we had great seats to see Clay (that's
was his name at that time) beat Doug Jones & Alex Miteff. And at the new garden Foreman on his way up fight Gregoria Peralta
in a close win & even saw Foreman as an undercard fighter against Irish Jack O'Hallorhan. Funny thing O'Hallorhan came back
after his fight to see the main event & was seated close to us. My brother who was a funny guy pointed out O'Hallorhan to me
saying 'Lokk over there there's O'Hallorhan, it's hard to recognize him when he isn't horizontal.

We always looked forward to Friday nigt fights on TV more than any other shows. Some memories: watched Robinson knock out Bobo Olson
& Gene Fullmer. As for Basilio, that guy could take a punch I think his greatest fights were against former champ Tony DeMarco.

 

[Crovax]

If you have money, you can probably get away with killing one. See OJ and Robert Blake for just two of many examples of that.

If you're cool with that, that's on you. For most people with a conscience they get mad when the justice system doesn't work.

 

[calamity]

If you're cool with that, that's on you. For most people with a conscience they get mad when the justice system doesn't work.

When I see you whining about white criminals buying their way out of legal jams, I might take you serious.

 

[poweRob]

Wow! Amazing you got to see that, Slick!

When I met Carmen Basilio, he was a worked-over old man who couldn't keep his hands to himself when female reporters or photogs were around. But he had a certain old-school charm. Even the women he pawed kinda liked him.

Once his fighting days were over, he retired to Rochester, NY (where I live) and worked at the Genesee bottling plant for a bit, before he started getting invites to sporting banquets and whatnot. He died like 5 years ago.

Oh, and you got to see Robinson too. I GUESS THAT'S KINDA NICE

Only fighter I saw up close was Vernon Forrest. He was a hometown guy from Augusta, GA and he had a gathering down by my house in downtown area up against the Savannah River after his Olympic years. He was supposed to win but ended up losing pretty badly and he was sooooo apologetic to the fans there. He said he had absolutely no energy due to fighting the flu all that week during the olympics and got into the ring and had nothing to give.

 

[slick]

1) Robinson---Lost middleweight title to pumped up welterweight Basilio. Still one of the greats, though. These old guys had an unbelievable number of fights.
2) Duran---My favorite at one time. Broke my heart when he quit against Leonard.
3) Salvatore Sanchez---I remember this guy and didn't realize he was only 23 when he died.

Robinson in his prime was 99-1 in his first 100 fights as I recall & the guy who beat him La Motta was beaten by Robinson the other 3 or 4 times they fought

Duran before moving to welterweight was 68-1 most by KO losing only to De Jesus who he beat in a rematch. My Grandmother was Scotch so naturally
Ken Buchanan was a favorite of mine. When Duran fought Buchanan for the lightweight title I never saw such fury in a fighter Duran was super human
in that fight.

As for Sanchez I only saw him fight 3 times twice against Lopez & once against the great puerta Rican Wilfredo Gomez. Gomez was undefeated and the
favorite, Sanchez before the fight questioned the soundness of the odds makers and proceeded to knock Gomez out.

Just an opinion but these 3 at there prime were the most exciting & best of the lot I saw.

 

[Fishking]

Floyd has always been a careful fighter.

Watching it this AM, I thought he should have gone in for the KO around the sixth round not waited until the tenth. Fight was over after five.

It looked to me like MayW just wanted to be sure McG had no power left in his arms. Doing that makes sense. I guess. He completely owned him in rounds nine and ten.

Right, but he should have been completely owning him from the first round, not waiting until the person just tired out before actually doing something. It was his own sport and he ran and turned his back often.

 

[Bucky]

Right, but he should have been completely owning him from the first round, not waiting until the person just tired out before actually doing something. It was his own sport and he ran and turned his back often.

He's 40-years old for goodness sakes.

 

[Nap]

McGregor's post fight explanation. Was actually quite humble and nice believe it or not.

This fight was between two fighters that understand the importance of promoting a fight and how to make it look like a personal fued leading up to it. At the end of the night, they are both professionals and knew that the personal attacks were simply about increasing the amount of viewers.

 

[Nap]

Right, but he should have been completely owning him from the first round, not waiting until the person just tired out before actually doing something. It was his own sport and he ran and turned his back often.

I think Conner coming out and displaying much more skill than what just about everyone thought he would have played a major role in that. Mayweather likely intended to test Conner and then either adopt an aggressive strategy or a more conservative strategy of tiring him out. When Conner came out early showing good head movement, the ability to counter with some combos, and a very nice jab Mayweather decided to adopt the conservative strategy rather than take any chances.

 

[Skeptic Bob]

Christ, with MMA rules, McGregor would have Mayweather in a rear naked choke in about 8 seconds.

Well yeah. I think it is safe to say McGregor is a MUCH better boxer than Mayweather would be a Mixed Martial Artist. Something tells me we won't be seeing that fight, though.

 

[Slingshot Bob]

They all that I'm aware of, had cover charges I wasn't going to pay.

A watched a few minutes in the beginning and was not impressed. I look forward to Conner challenging him to an MMA match, conner would dominate him in the first round.

Damn you Conner, I had a 4 pack riding on you!

 

[akyron]

I enjoyed it. It was better than predicted. May held and turned whenever he started feeling it and Macgregor ran out of gas in the 7th or so to get whooped in the 9th.

My surprise was that Mac even frustrated May enough to get shoved after the bell.

and of course win three rounds.

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 Total

Mayweather
9 9 9 10 10 10 10 9 10 TKO

86

McGregor
10 10 10 9 9 9 9 10 9


85



I could barely watch it at all once I found out the Referee was named after a famous KKK cyclops that was a self procaimed mentor to Hillary.

In faux outraged I ran around looking for a defenseless statue to deface and pull down but all I could find was a garden gnome.



At least now I can feel good about myself because I did my part to fight evil today.

Wheee!

 

[poweRob]

I think Conner coming out and displaying much more skill than what just about everyone thought he would have played a major role in that. Mayweather likely intended to test Conner and then either adopt an aggressive strategy or a more conservative strategy of tiring him out. When Conner came out early showing good head movement, the ability to counter with some combos, and a very nice jab Mayweather decided to adopt the conservative strategy rather than take any chances.

What I thought was interesting about McGregor, he had an old school boxing posture. Head way up and back. Great visibility but open. While boxers these days are generally head down between the gloves or ducked behind a raised shoulder. He kept his hands out front and head up. Looked like boxing in the 1920's or 30's.

 

[Slingshot Bob]

don't know how long it will last up on youtube but... full fight:

I wonder if anyone here paid the pay per view fee and if so, do they feel silly now?

 

[FastPace]

Right, but he should have been completely owning him from the first round...

What makes you think he wasn't? Maybe next time you go fishing you shouldn't use any bait on your hook.

...not waiting until the person just tired out before actually doing something. It was his own sport and he ran and turned his back often.

Tire out? If he was the superior fighter he would not have tired out.

Had he hit as hard as many MMA fans claimed it would have been Floyd "tired out" and losing by TKO or KO.

Fact is Floyd was hitting hard than McGregor was. That's why he tired out. Not because he (McGregor) was punching a heavy bag for 3 minutes each 10 rounds. The heavy bag doesn't wobble your legs.

 

[Fishking]

What makes you think he wasn't? Maybe next time you go fishing you shouldn't use any bait on your hook.

Because it seems that he lost those rounds.

Tire out? If he was the superior fighter he would not have tired out.

Had he hit as hard as many MMA fans claimed it would have been Floyd "tired out" and losing by TKO or KO.

Fact is Floyd was hitting hard than McGregor was. That's why he tired out. Not because he (McGregor) was punching a heavy bag for 3 minutes each 10 rounds. The heavy bag doesn't wobble your legs.

Yes, tired out. Mayweather didn't land much of anything until after McGregor started losing steam. That's just a fact. He also kept being a coward and turning his back to McGregor whenever he felt threatened. That's also a fact.

 

[calamity]

Right, but he should have been completely owning him from the first round, not waiting until the person just tired out before actually doing something. It was his own sport and he ran and turned his back often.

He probably knew that McG had that one punch in him for at least three or four rounds. So, he burned him out.

MayW rolls like that. He is super cautious, not very exciting and 50-0 because of it. :lol: