OT: Mayweather vs. McGregor

[HuskiesAllDay]

Where was Connors Ko artist ability against a guy 20lbs smaller who walked right through his punches. It's silly. Told you before boxers train in throwing punches and evading punches. It stands to reason they punch harder, since mma guys train so many more disciplines. When the UFC ko artist can't even give the boxer with no power even a bloody nose it should tell you who punched harder. A similar aged boxer with true power would have flat lined Conor. That's not a knock, I love mma, but their 2 different sports. Do you believe Miocic could hang with Anthony Joshua boxing because Miocic won golden gloves?

Does this look like a guy who just fought a "power puncher" for 10 rounds??

 

[SubbaBub]

Boxing and MMA have about as much in common as hunting and fishing.

Mayweather didn't throw a punch until the end of first round. He didn't throw many more in Rounds 2 and 3.

McGregor landed a punch, congrats. It is more than most people could do against Floyd. Mayweather was never in danger and won when he wanted to win. A cynic would say he held in up in the early rounds and then methodically wore McGregor down. The cynic would be more right than wrong. It was a good show for a crowd that wanted a show.

No need to read anything deeper into it.

 

[MadDogRevival]

Where was Connors Ko artist ability against. . . won golden gloves?

Not evidence. Just your opinion.

 

[MadDogRevival]

Love the way the boxing fanboys in this thread keep attempting to draw validation from a fight between the "best boxer of our generation" and an amateur fighting his first professional boxing match after training for 100 days.
It's beautiful.

 

[intlzncster]

It took 7 or 8 pages before I clicked on this thread to find out what it meant. I knew it was about boxing, but I'd never heard of either Mayweather or McGregor, and certainly didn't know they represented two different sports.
I read a couple pages if predictions here, and after getting a phone notification about the the outcome, I learned that Mayweather is 40 & hadn't fought in 2 years, and that McGregor didn't think the bout should have been stopped.
This evening, I had an hour to wait in the JFK Cell Phone Lot before picking up friends coming in from San Francisco, so I streamed the fight on YouTube. It was an OK way to pass the time, and I agree with the decision to stop the fight when the ref called it.
Sometimes I really just love being so ignorant about such obviously very popular stuff. It's an unexpected perk of aging.

DO you live under a rock?

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Love the way the boxing fanboys in this thread keep attempting to draw validation from a fight between the "best boxer of our generation" and an amateur fighting his first professional boxing match after training for 100 days.
It's beautiful.

This is what someone says after they lose an argument.

 

[noeynox]

Love the way the boxing fanboys in this thread keep attempting to draw validation from a fight between the "best boxer of our generation" and an amateur fighting his first professional boxing match after training for 100 days.
It's beautiful.

41 years old, hadn't boxed in two years.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Paulie came with some fire on Cowherd's show today

 

[HuskiesAllDay]

Paulie came with some fire on Cowherd's show today

He wants that big payday. Pretty smart for him tbh. He's got nothing to lose.

Now that would be a fight between two feather fists.

 

[MadDogRevival]

This is what someone says after they lose an argument.

It's cute when somebody claims to "win" an argument on an Internet chat board. Bravo!

 

[HuskiesAllDay]

It's cute when somebody claims to "win" an argument on an Internet chat board. Bravo!

He never claimed he won. He just claimed that you lost.....Him and everyone else in this thread....

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Love the way the boxing fanboys in this thread keep attempting to draw validation from a fight between the "best boxer of our generation" and an amateur fighting his first professional boxing match after training for 100 days.
It's beautiful.

I don't think that's what people are doing here. No one is questioning that McGregor would win in a UFC fight, but this fight was validation that boxers hot harder. A guy that is generally much more defensive walked down the KO artist of UFC all night. Outside of a body shot or two in the early rounds, there was nothing McGregor connected with that phased him at all. The later rounds were more about McGregor's conditioning not being good enough but the point remains. Ilas many have said, if this were against GGG, this fight is over in a couple rounds.

 

[JSM1970]

Bro, make another run to BJ's for a case of Monster & some Red Bull

Love the way the boxing fanboys in this thread keep attempting to draw validation from a fight between the "best boxer of our generation" and an amateur fighting his first professional boxing match after training for 100 days.
It's beautiful.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

DO you live under a rock?

I'm adept at avoiding a lot of hype, and probably peaked on non-heavyweight boxing with Hagler, Leonard, Hearns, Arguello, Pryor. No regrets whatsoever.

The vast majority of my spectator sports attention goes to UConn Men's Basketball, no matter how hard Conference Realignment, NCAA, and other forces beyond my control try to kill it.

Twin grandsons begin their first little league in a few weeks. Things change. Time passes. I've got a FT of great memories and a rich life in the present.

If you want to recommend a vintage Mayweather or McGregor fight I can watch on YouTube, by all means make a suggestion.

 

[NielsisGood]

Love the way the boxing fanboys in this thread keep attempting to draw validation from a fight between the "best boxer of our generation" and an amateur fighting his first professional boxing match after training for 100 days.
It's beautiful.

Why are you taking this so personally?

 

[MadDogRevival]

Why are you taking this so personally?

Quite the opposite. I thought the whole thing was hilarious and entertaining, from beginning to end. I had no dog in the race. You and yours took the fight as some sort of effrontery directed at boxing, and you took the result as some sort of proof of something or other.
I, on the other hand, not having to worry about the sanctity of boxing or the defense of MMA, just found it fun.
The psychology of your butthurtedness is just icing on the muffin.

 

[NielsisGood]

Quite the opposite. I thought the whole thing was hilarious and entertaining, from beginning to end. I had no dog in the race. You and yours took the fight as some sort of effrontery directed at boxing, and you took the result as some sort of proof of something or other.
I, on the other hand, not having to worry about the sanctity of boxing or the defense of MMA, just found it fun.
The psychology of your butthurtedness is just icing on the muffin.

Your earlier posts do not convey this sentiment whatsoever. Just take the L on this one guy, you'll get em next time!