OFFICIAL DISCUSSION: Floyd Mayweather Vs. Conor McGregor |August 26 2017

Well not sure about that tbh, I mean he had no shame at all in constantly rabbit punching, hammer fisting the top of Floyd's head, and taking his back - all illegal. Literally most of Conor's shots were illegal rabbit punches etc.

I honestly thought he'd be more careful, given the ref would be keeping a close eye on him as an MMA fighter, I thought he'd try and fight as clean as possible.

 

True but the thing is, I think some boxing purists swung too far the opposite direction of the McNuthuggers - acting like he was some bum from the street and literally wouldn't land one punch. It is a fight, I mean fuck, I'd probably land at least ONE punch on Floyd before getting taken out if I fought him.

He actually landed less clean shots than I expected tbh. As Van Heerden said, his main strength is timing and precision, and that combined with his very long reach enables him to land very well. I just knew he'd have no power and no stamina.

So the boxing purists are giving him more credit as he obviously did MUCH better than they expected, and didn't look as much like a bum from the street as they perhaps thought.

 

He landed next to nothing of significance. The one uppercut that keeps being replayed Mayweather walked right through it like it was nothing.

If he landed more than people expected it was only because Mayweather fought way more aggressively than anyone expected. Conor included.

He was right in front of him the whole fight.

 

Huh? He landed one uppercut clean and maybe 3 jabs. Everything else was arms, gloves, or rabbit punches.

Just like sol said, he landed next to nothing of significance, not even ONE clean left cross - his vaunted weapon.

 

Well they must have done, because you'd hafta be a fucking HARDCORE McNuthugger to think he landed 111 clean punches. I mean seriously.

He landed a handful of clean punches, while it's still more than Kellerman predicted, it was next to nothing landed clean.

Either that or they counted the rabbit punches. Like I said, 1 uppercut, 3 jabs, and 107 rabbit punches.

 

OK I'll watch the fight again, as I haven't seen it in good quality yet, I've been meaning to rewatch as the stream was decent, but kind of VHS quality. At least it was full framerate with no skipping though.

It should be noted that everyone in this thread apart from Hut Hut seems to share my opinion that he landed almost nothing clean.

 

Yep, his jab impressed me because it's almost non existant in MMA, I didn't expect him to jab at all. In the UFC he seems to just kind of paw with it as a sort of rangefinder.

 

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a great win and Conor actually lasted twice as long as I predicted.

The thing is Floyd looked fucking AWFUL. He looked slow and hittable, and like he'd just rolled off the couch to fight McGregor. But still this slow, rusty, 40 year old version of Floyd TKO'd the 170 pound Irish Gorilla without breaking a sweat, that's what impressed me.

 

Did you see Floyd's face after the fight? It's no exaggeration to say this was was a walk in the park, he didn't have a scratch or mark on him, and didn't even break a sweat.

 

42 out of 68 punches landed by mayweather jr in round 9

When do you suspect was the last time he threw 68 punches in a round?

 

Did you expect Floyd to come out as a pressure fighter with almost no respect for the incoming?

He fought out of his character to make it a more entertaining fight which means he got hit more than he usually does and he scored a stoppage for the first time in a decade.

Not sure how much he has left in his legs but if he felt McGregor was any kind of threat he would have been way more defensive.

 

Less CLEAN than expected. I don't believe he landed anywhere near 111 clean. I thought he'd land at least a couple of clean left crosses.

 

Yes I'm well aware of that, and what I'm saying is they pushed a button when punches were blocked, or rabbit punches.

There is simply no way he landed 111 clean punches.

 

By the way, regarding the Conor Vs Magginaggi sparring - who do you believe? Do you think that clip told the real story, or that Magginaggi told the truth that he won 10 rounds Vs Conor and Conor only "put it on him" in 11 and 12? Do you reckon the UFC will release the footage, and who would you pick in a real boxing match?

 

Yep, the quality was good enough that I could see exactly what was landing and what wasn't, and it was running at full framerate. Believe me some streams are so bad it's hard to even see what's landing clean, this one was fine, and I was watching big on my Plasma.

 

Yeah well Petre watched it on his 260" OLED TV and scored every round for Connor.

 

Regarding Conor being "Amazing" - let's just say if a Fightbeater went 10 rounds with Floyd, or even some random MMA fighter, sure, that would be amazing.

But you need a bit of context. Conor is an elite professional striker - the best striker in MMA, has a boxing background, claimed he'd knock Floyd out cold in 1 round with 80z gloves, his whole delusional team also claimed he'd knock Floyd out in 2 to 4 rounds. Half the MMA community seemed to think Conor would KO Floyd, and the other half at least thought if Floyd won he'd "run all night because he's a boxing pussy and pillow fisted point fighting bitch". And that there is no way he'd ever engage Conor. And by the way that includes those idiots Rogan and Schaub who kept talking about "the touch of death" and that if Conor even touched Floyd once with that left hand he'd go down

So given the context, I don't think there was anything "amazing" in getting walked down by a 40 year old Floyd 20 pounds lighter and becoming his first TKO in 10 years without getting out of second gear.