Why doesn't Mayweather fight McGregor in a MMA fight?

Uh, the same reason Alabama doesn't play at Mercer.

MMA fans are hilarious. Just because plenty of simplistic angry males can relate to your sport doesn't make it a meaningful sport.

Same reason Kipchoge doesn't run in color run.

I can't even fathom people who think boxing is the superior sport to MMA. Boxing is like 1/3 of a real fight. It doesn't include kicking and grappling. Actually, it's more like 1/4. There's punches, kicking, grappling, and submissions. The reason Mayweather didn't fight McGregor in the Octagon is because he, and anyone with a brain, knew it would end quickly. Anyone who thinks Mayweather is a better fighter than McGregor is pretty clueless. Really, the fact McGregor could even last more than a round shows how superior MMA is to boxing. You'd think one of the best fighers of all-time could defeat a boxing novice (by professionally boxing standards) quickly, even if he is a fighter known more for defense. If Mayweather fought MMA against Conor, Floyd would be beaten in the first round for sure, probably in like thirty seconds...and McGregor isn't even a clear cut number one fighter in UFC.

Because he would lose in less than 20 seconds.

Boxing is not a "subset" of MMA. The MoQ rules don't apply, so it's apples and oranges.

Boxing fans don't realize it but their archaic festival of brain damage is mortally wounded. An MMA guy in his MoQ debut just made it 10 rounds with their GOAT. Can't live that down.

Ummmmmmm.

Why doesn't Eliud Kipchoge enter the 50k racewalk in the next Olympics???

I don't really care about either sport but seriously Mayweather is 40 years old and had been retired for 2 years. I wouldn't be too impressed with yourself he made it 10 rounds.

Side note, both sports are dumb and so is football.

40 is not old in boxing. Archie Moore won his first belt at 39 and defended it for 7 years. Foreman won one at 45. Hopkins older than that. Your GOAT doesn't let a novice go 10 rounds just because he's 40.

Bad Wigins wrote:

40 is not old in boxing. Archie Moore won his first belt at 39 and defended it for 7 years. Foreman won one at 45. Hopkins older than that. Your GOAT doesn't let a novice go 10 rounds just because he's 40.

he says Archie Moore!! Don't try to gull the rubes, dip$hit; or do you actually "believe" this word vomit you post? Even Rojo is "smarter" than this.

You can't conclude that Mayweather, who bet he'd take him down in under 9 1/2 rds, was even trying to put McGregor down earlier. He dispatched him pretty easily at that pt. However, you also don't know whether Mayweather was in great fighting shape after two years of retirement and supreme confidence that McGregor could not challenge him in the ring. I find it funny that after all these guys said McGregor would kill him in the boxing ring, now they are saying he'd do so in the MMA ring. Two basics are that the best athletes and the best trained are in boxing and wrestling and the other sports are therefore not getting the toughest.

markschultz25 wrote:

Nothing I said is incorrect. I said a proper subset CAN contain only one element, not MUST contain one element. I participated in MathLeague and Math Olympiad in high school and scored a 17 out of 100 on the Putnam exam my senior year of college. I'm no lightweight when it comes to math okay?

Pretty sure the Putnam is out of 120. Or is 10 points per question x 12 questions a little beyond the scope of what was covered that year?

zxcvxzcvxc wrote:

You can't conclude that Mayweather, who bet he'd take him down in under 9 1/2 rds, was even trying to put McGregor down earlier.

But I can conclude he didn't. That's what matters.

It's hilarious to see his fans getting mad and talking all this coulda, woulda, shoulda. Why so defensive?

Just admit that the MoQ rules make for a ridiculous "fight" and you'll feel better. Stop torturing yourselves.

Let me know when any MMA fight garners the attention of the bout we had Saturday.

jolster wrote:

Let me know when any MMA fight garners the attention of the bout we had Saturday.

Well a Mayweather VS McGregor rematch inside the Octagon would, but as this thread has established, Mayweather would never dare to.

In its brief history, MMA is already throwing up bigger stars than boxing. For a brief time, Ronda Rousey was arguably the most famous sportswoman in the world, if not in history. And she's not even really that good.

Connor McGregor only made his UFC debut 3 or 4 years ago and doesn't even defend the belts he wins, yet is perhaps now the biggest name in sport. Like it or not, MMA is in an upward trajectory. I like boxing, but the fact is that the younger generation prefer MMA because its just so much more like a real fight. It's also far more exciting (usually) and there's far more skills and techniques involved. That's why McGregor could go 10 rounds with the P4P boxing champ on his debut and yet Mayweather or just about any other boxer would get destroyed within 1 minute in an MMA fight, even to the 20th ranked MMA fighter in his weight class, and even if Mayweather trained for a year.

WWE superstar CM Punk had been training for years in MMA 'subsets' such as ju-jitsu, then decided to spend his millions training full-time at the best MMA camp in the world for two straight years. He still got absolutely destroyed by a nobody on his UFC debut in under 2 minutes.

The analogy of a triathlon and decathlon is not similar for MMA vs Boxing.

I understand the point but MMA is more dynamic & less rules, it's a fight (minus eye poking, kicking in the balls) whereas boxing is only punching in torso and face (and not even punching back of the head).

The big gloves help too, Floyd could just defend most shots because the surface area of his and Conor's gloves make it hard to get through hands and forearms.

It is one reason why Brazilian Jiu jitsu is getting more popular, its encompasses judo, wrestling and Japanese Jiu jitsu. BJJ has more to learn, but it's more simple via less restrictions and athletes can be more creative.

I think (most people that do a MA have this opinion) that the UFC sucks because Dana White does big name title fights (like you say, CJ Punk, or how Conor hasn't defended his belts) versus following the rankings and putting equal or earned spots on the main card. It creates lop sided fights or in this case, poor paying UFC fights. The UFC has an exclusive contract with REEBOK and they are not that unlike USATF and NIKE. Set up only to help executives, not the athletes. Some of those guys are on pay per view getting $3,000.

So for Conor, why would he go make $2 million to get into a full on real fight on the UFC, where even in fights he's won he's broken bones and needed surgery versus go box a guy and get $100 million. He got TKO'd Saturday and was smiling after and his face was not that bad.

Because nobody cares about MMA? It is on a par with watching Street Fighter II tournaments.

McGregor has been wanting to box Mayweather for a couple years, Mayweather had to be convinced to unretire for the fight. Mayweather shouldn't be obligated to fight McGregor in the octagon because he never asked for the boxing match in the first place.

These comparisons between MMA and Boxing are funny they're two totally different things.

It would be like comparing running (MMA) with race walking (Boxing).

The general objective in a race is to get from A to B as fast as you can but with race walking there are a ton of rules inhibiting how quickly you can get there (one foot on the ground at all times, straight knee at impact etc.)

The general objective in combat sports is to beat the other guy up but with boxing there are a ton of rules inhibiting just that (have to wear pillows on your hands, no grappling, no knees etc.)

MMA=an all out race

Boxing=50k race walk

This is why Boxing needed an MMA guy to cross over in order to be slightly interesting again. Now that it's over it will continue dying it's slow and painful death.

exhausted wrote:

MMA=an all out race

Boxing=50k race walk.

I respectfully disagree really. The fact that both MMA and boxing sports have weight classes makes them far removed from "real fighting". MMA even has a straw weight class which is less than 115 lbs. Can you imagine a 115 lbs MMA guy going up against a super heavy weight MMA guy weighing over 265 lbs? The matches are too contrived because of this and neither sport is "real fighting" with no rules.

It would be like having an over 265 lbs category in the Olympic Games marathon and claiming that that is "real running".

The original UFC did not have any weight classes or rounds so it was somewhat closer to "real fighting" but even then humans have always used weapons in any "real fight" of importance when their families' or societies' safety is on the line..

Coevett wrote:

If you told an unarmed Greek fighter in ancient times to fight an unarmed Persian soldier, you'd see something like two MMA fighters in the Octagon, definitely not Floyd Mayweather in a boxing ring.

If the unarmed Greek fighter had any sort of common sense he would get hold of a weapon such as a sword, spear, or bow and arrow and quickly finish off the unarmed Persian soldier.