The fight
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Cm doesn't have the legs. Final punch should be soon.
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Told ya
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@Rembrandt something about respect is pretty much all I caught (in a good way)
Didnt really live up to the hype IMO
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Stayed up and paid up and wasn't disappointed.
Seen far worse boxing PPVs, and to be fair the undercard was pretty underwhelming.
McGregor was game and gutsy with no little skill, especially for his first professional boxing match, but ultimately class & experience won out.
Would have been interesting to see if McGregor could have gotten back up off the canvas and fair to say that whilst he took plenty of great shots there wasn't much damage.
He was far more beat up in the first Diaz fight.
Whilst I know it's not Mayweather's MO and he obviously knew what he was doing tactically, I expected him to dismantle McGregor easier and sooner.
Boxing took a very big sigh of relief.
And the UFC came out very favourably too IMHO.
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And in the most unsurprising result of the year...
A bloke who took up MMA because he was so shit at boxing versus the pound for pound best boxer in the world, who just happened to need the purse to pay his tax bill.
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@antipodean said in The fight:
And in the most unsurprising result of the year...
A bloke who took up MMA because he was so shit at boxing versus the pound for pound best boxer in the world, who just happened to need the purse to pay his tax bill.
I don't disagree with any of this but it must be said. Either McGregor is way better than we give him credit for or Floyd is old and past it.
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@antipodean said in The fight:
And in the most unsurprising result of the year...
A bloke who took up MMA because he was so shit at boxing versus the pound for pound best boxer in the world, who just happened to need the purse to pay his tax bill.
I don't disagree with any of this but it must be said. Either McGregor is way better than we give him credit for or Floyd is old and past it.
Floyd is old. 40 years old fighting a bloke in his athletic prime. I sincerely doubt he trained like he would have a decade ago and his entire motivation would have been; win to preserve his record and pay the tax man.
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@antipodean said in The fight:
@antipodean said in The fight:
And in the most unsurprising result of the year...
A bloke who took up MMA because he was so shit at boxing versus the pound for pound best boxer in the world, who just happened to need the purse to pay his tax bill.
I don't disagree with any of this but it must be said. Either McGregor is way better than we give him credit for or Floyd is old and past it.
Floyd is old. 40 years old fighting a bloke in his athletic prime. I sincerely doubt he trained like he would have a decade ago and his entire motivation would have been; win to preserve his record and pay the tax man.
I read online somewhere that Floyd spent most of the evenings of the week leading up to the fight at the strippie. So I guess he wasn't taking it as seriously as he used to. It reminds me of the movie The Great White Hype
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@antipodean said in The fight:
@antipodean said in The fight:
And in the most unsurprising result of the year...
A bloke who took up MMA because he was so shit at boxing versus the pound for pound best boxer in the world, who just happened to need the purse to pay his tax bill.
I don't disagree with any of this but it must be said. Either McGregor is way better than we give him credit for or Floyd is old and past it.
Floyd is old. 40 years old fighting a bloke in his athletic prime. I sincerely doubt he trained like he would have a decade ago and his entire motivation would have been; win to preserve his record and pay the tax man.
Yeah fair enough but there's countless stories of old fighters coming back for one last shot, he's hardly a has been. Is he really in that much trouble financially? Last I heard he owns a shitload of successful businesses.
