I’ve never been more offended in my life! Take that back!!!
Sorry you were triggered. Will you be needing a safe space?
Well Mayweather won so we’ll never know now…
I went to bed, so I only just saw it.
I liked it more than that Manny Pacquiao fight from a couple of years ago. I swear no one punched anyone in that match.
This was as obvious and kind of stupid as it gets. Both guys can claim a small victory. Mcgregor lasted a lot longer than most non-boxers. Mayweather did not embarrass himself or ruin his record.
Punches were thrown and landed. It was quickly obvious Mayweather would just defend until Mcgregor tired out. Once Mcgregor was exhausted, Mayweather just pummeled him.
I agree with the stopping of the fight. Is this a common opinion or am I in the minority? It was clear, very clear, that Mayweather was destroying him in the 10th round. I guess it could have gone longer, but risk of major injury was clearly rising by the moment.
You all know that that same night you could’ve watched the return of Miguel Cotto, against Kamegai, a boxer so tough he’s actually spent the last three rounds allowing Cotto to pummel his face just for the chance of getting through Cotto’s defence- and you could literally see Cotto growing worried about the damage he was causing, right?
Instead of- whatever the thing this thread is about was.
Yeah, that seemed to go as Mayweather planned. No point getting involved in a brawl (not his style) no pointing taking any risk and increasing the relatively small puncher’s chance that McGregor had. Let him expend a load of energy as long it wasn’t troubling Mayweather (it wasn’t) and then apply the pressure.
McGregor had nothing that Mayweather hadn’t seen before and it seemed pretty much a foregone conclusion. The general consensus on this thread seems to have been borne out in reality.
This turned out along the lines of most predictions. If there’s anything to be said for McGregor it’s that he has a strong chin. They’re trying to play him up now, saying he just lacked stamina, and even though I didn’t see the fight I’ve seen enough coverage to tell that it wasn’t a stamina problem, he was beaten down. I’ll give him credit for going 10 rounds though, only the best in the world have managed that against Mayweather. Comparisons to Mayweather vs. Pacquiao are pointless, that was a terrible fight for Manny, he was barely in it, there was talk of holding back his purse because he looked like he was taking a dive.
Cotto vs. Kamagai was sort of interesting, two tough guys banging away at each other. Unfortunately for Kamagai he couldn’t match the punching power of Cotto.
The difference in conditioning was absolutely stark - CM was breathing out his arse from the 4th rd on and couldn’t throw a meaningful punch, whilst Floyd barely had a sweat on. He looked about five weight divisions below CM, as well, yet was pushing him around no problem in the latter rounds.
Kinda had this figured out by the 4th round and I’m not overly familiar with either man. Mayweather was just letting him wear himself out and waiting for the right time. As I said elsewhere about that time, I was reminded of Andre the Giant/Fezzik in The Princess Bride: “I want you to feel that you are doing well”.
Based on your logic the white nationalists would go apeshit if McGregor lost. Which he did. So you get a big :rolleyes: for your rant.
It was obvious from the first round that Mayweather was just going to sit back and let McGregor wear himself out. He used the Carol Channing method of technical knockout.
By contrast, most of the left I know who even ***knew ***this was going on were calling it for Money Man. Those, of course, who do not just scorn all combative sports as a violent display run by corrupt organizations.
That’s what would be expected. Boxing is a very specialized sport and boxers have the experience in pacing themselves in the 3 minute round format while throwing and moving in that time. I’m sure Floyd started dogging him as soon as he noticed any sign of fatigue. I don’t think it means Mac wasn’t in good condition, it means he did not have the know-how to deal with the situation and not the right conditioning for the job. Conditioning isn’t as simple as how far you can run or pedal over a period of time. If I have the story right McGregor wanted to use the lighter gloves assuming they’d let him hit harder but as mentioned above that would have been a boon to Mayweather who would expend less energy in his punching.
No surprises here, I’m glad I didn’t burn $100 on this fight. Now I can go throw that money away on something else.
McGregor more or less said that he was gassed. McGregor is obviously a well-conditioned athlete with solid stamina, but MMA fighters and boxers use their energy in different ways. It’s probably not coincidental that McGregor got taken out in the 10th round. A UFC title fight consists of 5 five-minute rounds for a total of 25 minutes of fighting. McGregor was going into the uncharted waters in terms of endurance once it got past the 8th.
I do have to agree with TriPolar though. I don’t think it was just fatigue; he was getting hit with some good shots later in the fight. Getting hit repeatedly will ‘gas’ a fighter, especially when a fighter’s arms are tired and aren’t able to land counter punches. It was probably for the best that the fight was stopped when it was. McGregor would have been stopped eventually.
yes, I don’t think people realized how many times MW tagged MG with quick jabs to the jaw. All that energy gets transmitted to the back of the mandible and into the skull. Any one of those hits would generate a lot of pain. It’s like stubbing your toe over and over again but with the added effect of dulling the brain.
what surprised me is the number of times MW turned his back on MG. I wondered if that was deliberately done to goad him into breaking the rules and getting points deducted.
The whole thing looked like an experienced boxer schooling a newbie. At one point MG dropped his arms to tempt MW to take a shot at him and he didn’t take the bait. That set the tone for the whole fight
I mean, yeah he does but Mayweather hardly even threw any punches the first three rounds. McGregor has to be the happiest loser I’ve ever seen in a boxing match, you couldn’t have guessed he just lost a fight from his attitude afterwards.
I think this went down exactly like all of us thought it would. McGregor, a combat sports specialist, wasn’t helpless in the ring and had a chance to do some damage in the beginning, but the superior boxer took him apart late. I gotta tip my hat to all of us sports experts here on SDMB.
I didn’t want to give him too much credit, it sounds like Floyd was toying with him, but he didn’t fold as quickly as many thought. And of course he’s happy, they’re talking about his share coming to $100 million. I’ll let Floyd use me as a heavy bag for that kind of money.
I think most of us called Bambi Meets Godzilla right also 
I’m thinking Mayweather is 40 and didn’t feel like doing the “Rocky” training thing. He gambled that McGregor would wear himself out if he stayed out of it in the early rounds and it worked. He may have also been studying him while holding back so he could judge his timing. For McGregor to win he would have had to pace himself and constantly change it up so that Mayweather had to work for it.
Fixed? Of please. It’s called Mayweather fighting his fight. No one who knew anything about boxing thought Mayweather was going for an early knockout. He did exactly what he wanted to do, stay away from an early knockout and let McGregor punch his gloves over and over. It looked to me like he came up with a winning strategy and stuck with it.
I don’t think it was much of a gamble. Mayweather basically wasn’t fighting back for the first 3 rounds and I think McGregor landed 1 decent shot. Admittedly, that was one more than I expected so he beat my expectation. Compare this fight to Mayweather Pac. In that fight, Mayweather threw 36 punches in the first round compared with 6 (!) last night .
IMHO, this was never close. Mayweather didn’t need a master strategy and McGregor didn’t think he could win. This was all about putting on a good show. McGregor’s activity in the early rounds and letting it go until round 10 made it seem like it was a competitive fight. But it wasn’t and it was clear afterwards that neither side thought that it ever was. They were happy to make their money.