Mayweather vs McGregor- who ya got?

Marketing ploy #2312112 wrote:

McGregor is simply good at marketing himself. He's not even a great MMA fighter. He's become champ in a watered down era and has 3 losses. He lost to journeyman Nate Diaz for crying out loud. Someone like GSP would wreck him. This won't be close.

I am admittedly not an expert but how do you know this is true? I thought Jose Aldo was one of the greatest MMA fighters having being undefeated for so long and yet he lost within a few seconds to McGregor. I remember before the fight that many were predicting that Aldo would kick McGregor's legs off but it did not turn out that way. I thought Diaz was in a heavier weight class to McGregor and yet although he won the first fight, McGregor gave him problems despite having little time to prepare. In the rematch, McGregor turned things around and won and seemed to have analyzed well his opponent.

I worry that Mayweather will struggle badly with McGregor's power, and unorthodox movement and style, I don't think he has encountered anyone like this before.

The Aldo fight was a fluke, that result was a 1 in 1,000 outcome. Conor is a fabulous striker for an MMA fighter, but he doesn't have much of a ground game. He has a lightning fast and accurate left hand. He got worked by Diaz in the first fight, in the 2nd fight it was a razor thin decision. One judge scored it as a draw.

But anyways this match vs Floyd has a very high probability of being a snoozefest. Floyd has dealt with tremendous boxers with more skillful punching than Conor has. Floyd is a defensive master.

MurderDubs wrote:

So you think little Connor punches harder than Mike Tyson? OK, buddy. I doubt he punches harder than Canelo, De La Hoya or Diego Corrales, let alone a skilled boxer one hundred pounds heavier.

I know it's not quite the same thing but can any of those guys punch through concrete blocks like karate guys? That's the difference in power as I see it - the karate guys must have hands like hammers to punch through those things. Tyson broke his hand in a street fight with Mitch Green and Mayweather has had problems with fractures in his hands.

OK I guess you can argue that hitting a moving human being is not the same as hitting a stationary board or concrete block as Bruce Lee said "boards don't hit back" ...

Salary Cap wrote:

But anyways this match vs Floyd has a very high probability of being a snoozefest. Floyd has dealt with tremendous boxers with more skillful punching than Conor has. Floyd is a defensive master.

The sad truth is that people are becoming more and more ignorant. There is a huge anti-science movement with people perferring to substitute whatever they want to believe to be "facts". It's much safer for a stupid person to believe what they want then be confused by reality. The fact that this fight is going to happen and generate as much money as it is proves how stupid the world has become. It's a carnival. Conor is not a boxer and has no chance of beating Floyd. If people just read their histories and watched their fights without knowing who these two were and without being subject to any media sales, they would wonder why this one sided shit show was even going to happen. All we can learn from this fight is that people are stupid and you can make huge profits from people's stupidity.

Man is this going to be a let down.

Get ready for a whole lot of dodging, running, and holding.

Mayweather by decision, not enough power for a knock out.

McGregor is a brown belt in Jiu Jitsu. That's very legit on the ground, he just doesn't take fights there.

In his spare time, Mayweather keeps sharp by beating on his wife. He is a piece of human garbage who deserves to get his ass kicked but it won't happen unless the fight happened in the octagon.

cappy wrote:

Man is this going to be a let down.

Get ready for a whole lot of dodging, running, and holding.

Mayweather by decision, not enough power for a knock out.

This is probably the closest to the truth. McGregor has no chance. None. Mayweather will spend the fight poppin' McGregor in the snoot and then backing off around the ring. It will make the fight last and possibly to a decision but McGregor will do no damage to Floyd.

I view this fight like this - elite runner vs elite triathlete in a running race, who wins? Oh course the runner does, due training in one discipline for a lifetime. ...specialization.

This is no different, nothing against McGregor, but he's gonna lose. Probably won't be KOd, he'll lose by way of decision, Mayweather is a better boxer, and they are boxing, pretty straightforward.

I don't follow either sport, but the general consensus is that Mayweather is a lock to win a pure boxing match. That said, if McGregor is losing badly, I hope he just says "eff it" in a late round and starts pummeling Mayweather using every MMA move he has. He'd obviously get disqualified, but it would be hilarious to see Mayweather get his woman-beating a$$ kicked.

He would manhandle an average Joe, but he's nothing special for a MMA fighter. All three of his losses have been via submission, two of them were against nobodies.

Born in the 856 wrote:

The biggest boxing match ever may become a reality. Mayweather vs McGregor. Will Mayweather's ego stop it from happening?

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/fight-becoming-inevitable-as-conor-mcgregor-floyd-mayweather-make-their-pitch-175251061.html

Boxing rules; Mayweather easily.

MMA rules; McGregor easily.

Any MMA person knows this. For some reason a lot of boxing fans, no matter how many times boxers get dropped in MMA fights, still think a boxer can compete under MMA rules. MMA fans are more realistic and know that a pure boxer will dot a pure MMA fighter's eyes in a boxing match. McGregor is in for the money. He can retire and Mayweather can retire again.

Since it's boxing rules, Mayweather remains undefeated, and McGregor can say he gave it a shot.

Save your money and don't bother with this fight as Mayweather is most likely going to win a boxing match hands down (it's an exhibition). That being said, anything can happen in a fight and there is a huge age difference between the two that should favor McGregor, one well timed punch can make anybody drop. Watch GGG vs Alvarez instead. The only Mayweather bout that would have intrigued me would have been if Mayweather had fought Pacquiao back when he was knockin' people out (9 years ago).

just like with pacquiao, it will be a staged annoying boring run around, trading harmless jabs and running around.

mayweather will make a fortune and mcgregor will make more money he ever has. this is whats sad about sports these days especially boxing. i know it was rigged since way back but anyone with half a brain can watch sugar ray vs duran (1 and 2) and see whats up and it has only become better "acting"

duran was supposed to look good and put up a fight and sugar ray was supposed to win, duran didnt play along. fight 2 they told him you will play along and "flop" in whatever round, duran having PRIDE didnt agree. they banned him, tried to ruin him and sugar ray ran around jumping and screaming like it was wrestle mania.

fast forward, tyson smashing people in seconds, its bad for ratings, they tell him he has to play along, he doesnt, they ruin him.

fast forward to both the pacquiao fight. paqquio is like duran and has PRIDE, you could see it in the fight how disgusted he was in himself for "playing" in order to get a huge paycheck. guarantee if that fight was in some other country and not controlled by agents, mafia, and promoters and was an actual real fight pacquiao would have won.

so this match will be 2 options. mcgregor is told to show up super ripped and nice to look at and in great fitness. trade jabs and take some hits, and either a) get knocked down at such and such round, or go the distance of all the rounds for making the most money for PPV

if mcgregor decides to go the PRIDE route like duran did in fight one, he will land hard punches and piss off a lot of people....can he win? i think he has a chance, but sadly i think he takes the money to "play" goes the whole way and loses the already decided match.

4 years ago, Conor McGregor picked up a welfare check of $235. He'll likely walk away with $100,000,000+ from the Mayweather fight.

#winning

You mad brah?

I too can copy and paste from Twitter.

So we have a boxing match between one of the best boxers ever and someone who has never had a boxing match, this is so hard to figure out who is going to win.

I have never played Tennis, but maybe I will enter Wimbledon and win, you know beginners luck.

Eddie Alvarez beats Jose Aldo 9 out of 10 times and look what cm did to him. He's head and shoulders above Aldo. Look what max Holloway did to Aldo then look what CM did to max Holloway.