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Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Conor McGregor
adarqui:
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adarqui:
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Mayweather v McGregor
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lol i'm not looking forward to that at all, mcgregor is going to get slaughtered.... no fun when u know exactly whats going to happen....
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FWIW I think Mayweather wins but...
At worst McGregor has a punchers chance. He carries concrete in his hands and is a unique mover. He will come in bigger than Floyd with reach to boot and if Floyd is as defensive as he would normally be then McGregor has so much more freedom to move around. I think it's going to be a really interesting fight.
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I disagree. McGregor has a puncher's chance in the same way a meteor has a chance of falling on the ring and killing Floyd :D
Floyd will be able to do whatever he wants to Conor.. The question is really: will he string it out to give the fans "more action" and play with him to make it a longer fight? I imagine he will.
Personally, i'd like to see him end Conor in round 1 and just be done with it..
If they were fighting in MMA, i'd say Conor would destroy Floyd, absolutely no chance, not even a puncher's chance. These sports are just way too different.
Conor has never seen anything like Floyd's speed/reflexes/stamina/movement in a ring. And he can't slow it down by tackling Floyd to take it to the ground or kicking his legs etc. He's just a sitting duck.
As for Conor having concrete hands, sure maybe in MMA.. but I imagine not at all in boxing. Boxers fight with bigger gloves & have better chins, they are all about taking head punishment. Lots of these MMA fighters seem to have glass chins - could be due to the gloves but, I imagine it has more to do with less hardening of themselves to proper head trauma while growing up. They probably spent more time wrestling, doing BJJ, doing more weak sparring than the stuff you see in these brutal boxing gyms around the world etc. Boxer's usually have hundreds of amateur fights, and spar hard af in some really grimy gyms while they are growing up.
dno.. i'd be shocked if Conor lands anything impressive.. or even if he looks impressive at all. He'll have maybe 1 round (the first) where he has an ounce of confidence and will look sharp .. but after that, he's going to be Floyd's play toy.
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adarqui:
If you want to see Floyd vs Conor early, this is how it'll probably look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqerSSt07JA
^^ The Matrix.
and Gatti was a really good (not elite) boxer with a chin of granite & decent hand speed.
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seifullaah73:
Mcgregor has never fought more than five rounds in ufc rules, how will he survive in a sport which is more physically demanding.
Even if mayweather lets mcgregor hit him or show off his defence, it will still suck, just look at the andre berto fight, a disaster waiting to happen, mayweather was toying with him on the ropes and even with that the fight still sucked.
EDIT: Then you see these type of BS:
http://www.boxingscene.com/white-mayweather-mcgregor-bigger-mayweather-pacquiao--117545
as if fight fans will buy this fight thinking its going to be better than may vs pac, which was the only most wanted fight both boxers, both #1.
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--- Quote ---“Yes, of course,” Ellerbe said. “Why not? You’ve gotta understand, obviously with Mayweather-Pacquiao, and Stephen can attest to this, that was a fight that the fans had been talking about for years. There’s not one place that I go to, that Floyd goes to, that anybody affiliated or associated with Floyd Mayweather [goes to], that [we don’t get] asked the question, ‘Floyd, are you gonna fight Conor McGregor?’ This is a very, very hot fight and this is a fight that the fans want. It’s gonna be a tremendous event. The fans wanted this fight."
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Even the promo to this fight is bs especially when it comes from people who fail at hyping it up. A quote from dana white:
--- Quote ---'Floyd Mayweather is 40 years old, he's always had problems with southpaws. Conor McGregor is 27 and he is a southpaw. Whenever Conor hits people, they fall.
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The more I see of this the more I hate this fight.
adarqui:
I bought pretty much every Mayweather PPV fight.. can't think of one I didn't pay for. I definitely WILL NOT be ordering that PPV.
I mean, if we look at it just from a circus perspective, it's kind of fun.. But from a fight fan purist perspective, it's complete garbage.
It's kind of like Ali vs Hulk Hogan .. nothing wrong with it.. It's just some circus/entertainment stuff. This is slightly different in that it'll be a REAL FIGHT, but still, it's mostly a circus event.
So i'll just continue to look at it from the circus perspective & appreciate that for what it is.
The idea of Floyd breaking Marciano's record with a fight like this, instead of fighting GGG, is very annoying though. Hard to not let that annoy you if you're a "fight fan". :/
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