Mayweather v. McGregor - August 26

[Moiraine]

I've never followed any type of fighting.

 

But it seems to me that this fight is like...

 

The best rugby team in the world playing its first American football game against the Super Bowl champions.

[suh_fan93]

One of the biggest 'fights' in a while that I could absolutely care less about.  

 

 

 

 

[TonyStalloni]

I am intrigued by this battle and hope it is a good matchup.  I won't be able to see it because of a wedding and wouldn't pay for it if I could.

[Enhance]

6 hours ago, suh_fan93 said:

One of the biggest 'fights' in a while that I could absolutely care less about.  

Full disclosure: I know very little about boxing as a sport and don't find any kind of organized fighting appealing.

 

I find the whole thing to be a charade. It's one of the greatest boxers of all time facing off against a loudmouth MMA fighter, somebody who has absolutely no business being in the ring with Mayweather to begin with. It seems like such a money grab, and paying the money to view it on PPV seems even more disingenuous.

[suh_fan93]

48 minutes ago, Enhance said:

Full disclosure: I know very little about boxing as a sport and don't find any kind of organized fighting appealing.

 

I find the whole thing to be a charade. It's one of the greatest boxers of all time facing off against a loudmouth MMA fighter, somebody who has absolutely no business being in the ring with Mayweather to begin with. It seems like such a money grab, and paying the money to view it on PPV seems even more disingenuous.

 

 

You summed my feelings about this up perfectly.  This fight in particular just feels like a big 'show' to me personally.  It definitely feels like a money grab and nothing more.  If I find a stream and am home I may still watch but can't say I'm 'excited' about it at all.

 

 

 

[The Dude]

11 hours ago, Moiraine said:

I've never followed any type of fighting.

 

But it seems to me that this fight is like...

 

The best rugby team in the world playing its first American football game against the Super Bowl champions.

Yeah I don't think it was ever meant to be a competitive athletic contest.  It was meant to extract money from easy marks.

[obert1]

I was a lot more excited about Crawford unifying the belts. I don't think anything could happen in this fight that would be worth $100 of my money.

[BigRedBuster]

I have never paid for a ppv fight. 

 

Thinkkng about going to a bar to watch this just because I think mcgreggor has no clue what he's going to be up against.  

 

I bet bet a guy $20 he wouldn't make it past the 6th round. I'm pretty confident in that. 

[Mavric]

 

[suh_fan93]

Welp the boxer won.  Shocker.  McGregor was gassed by the middle rounds.  

 

 

 

 

[MLB 51]

I want to see Crawford and Mayweather fight at 147lbs.

[Apathy]

What's up with the "Decision will be finale after the 4th round" garbage? 

 

So had Mayweather KO'd Connor in the 2nd it wouldn't have counted? 

[suh_fan93]

 

[The Dude]

1 hour ago, MLB 51 said:

I want to see Crawford and Mayweather fight at 147lbs.

 

Crawford would win handily.  No way Floyd would agree to that for under one billion dollars.

[Enhance]

Read the NY Times synopsis this morning - seems like it all went done roughly how people expected, sans the 'McGregor will get knocked out early' talk.

 

I guess McGregor can take a bit of a moral victory for hanging in there early, but by all intents and purposes, it sounds like Mayweather controlled the night.