Round by Round - Mayweather-McGregor PPV - 26th August 2017

[youngrell]

Were people honestly impressed by McGregor?

He looked slow, little power, terrible footwork, chin in the air and bricking it.

Floyd looked like he let him have the first three rounds, barely threw a shot. And he didn't throw any head shots until about the 6th.

I also thought Floyd looked terrible, but I think that was because he didn't fight his usual fight because he didn't need to. Once McGregor was gassed Floyd neglected his jab and was just head hunting for a stoppage, which is unlike him.

Anyway, glad it's over.

[Covfefe]

Were people honestly impressed by McGregor?

He looked slow, little power, terrible footwork, chin in the air and bricking it.

Floyd looked like he let him have the first three rounds, barely threw a shot. And he didn't throw any head shots until about the 6th.

I also thought Floyd looked terrible, but I think that was because he didn't fight his usual fight because he didn't need to. Once McGregor was gassed Floyd neglected his jab and was just head hunting for a stoppage, which is unlike him.

Anyway, glad it's over.

Not one shoulder roll.

Mayweather was having fun in there. He won the fight at a canter.

[samwbr]

Where were these big left hand bombs McGregor was going to drop on Floyds chin?

Easiest night of his career.

[Ketchel]

It essentially was just a sparring session for Floyd. Walk forward, make the inexperienced guy work for the full three minutes of every round and then when exhaustion kicks in go for the kill. It was like walking one of those wildlife documentaries where the wild dogs keep on the tail of a wildebeest until it runs out of energy and gives up.

At the end of the day McGregor's punching technique was atrocious and he was landing with very little power. Mayweather let him leave the ring without him looking like an embarrassment. Hope this does not make him think of returning against someone who would actually want to hurt him.

[Mimmy]

Having not seen the whole fight I cant make much judgement here but I did see the last minute of the 10th. Mc seemed quite weak at that point and his punch power was non existent. He did win was it 5 rounds of the 10 though? So in terms of a debutant to the sport of boxing does that mean anything? If he had more stamina he could have gone on to win on points possibly or was it that Mayweather didnt really do anything in the fight?

But surely you have to give credit to a debutant for going that far with a legend and winning 5 rounds?

[Sequitorian]

But surely you have to give credit to a debutant for going that far with a legend and winning 5 rounds?

Yeah ... he won five rounds ... three on one card and one on each of the others ... that's five rounds ... (out of 27) ...

[bigped]

He never won 5 rounds maybe 2, and was rounds floyd gave him looked prereharsed if am honest

[Ricky_]

Were people honestly impressed by McGregor?

He looked slow, little power, terrible footwork, chin in the air and bricking it.

Floyd looked like he let him have the first three rounds, barely threw a shot. And he didn't throw any head shots until about the 6th.

I also thought Floyd looked terrible, but I think that was because he didn't fight his usual fight because he didn't need to. Once McGregor was gassed Floyd neglected his jab and was just head hunting for a stoppage, which is unlike him.

Anyway, glad it's over.

I was impressed. He took 2, maybe 3 rounds off Floyd. Maybe it's because my expectations were so low. Thought he was going to falling over his own feet like Freddie Flintoff.

[youngrell]

Were people honestly impressed by McGregor?

He looked slow, little power, terrible footwork, chin in the air and bricking it.

Floyd looked like he let him have the first three rounds, barely threw a shot. And he didn't throw any head shots until about the 6th.

I also thought Floyd looked terrible, but I think that was because he didn't fight his usual fight because he didn't need to. Once McGregor was gassed Floyd neglected his jab and was just head hunting for a stoppage, which is unlike him.

Anyway, glad it's over.

I was impressed. He took 2, maybe 3 rounds off Floyd. Maybe it's because my expectations were so low. Thought he was going to falling over his own feet like Freddie Flintoff.

I think Floyd gifted those rounds to him, he barely threw anything back at the start. I know he likes to take his time and work the opponent out, but no way it took him 3 rounds to do so.

His assault increased significantly in round 4 and then again in round 6 when he started throwing upstairs.

[Andrew]

Watched the full farce earlier.

McGregor seemed to have no power on his shots at all and Floyd just totally disregarded his punches.

Makes all this talk of McGregor being a huge puncher laughable. Just goes to show how the punching technique is completely different to MMA. You can look like a powerful puncher when fighters are running into shots (ie Aldo Alvarez)

I'm glad it wasn't remotely competitive as it means ther won't be any crossover contests in the future.

I'm glad it is over so we can discuss real fights.

[Ricky_]

Were people honestly impressed by McGregor?

He looked slow, little power, terrible footwork, chin in the air and bricking it.

Floyd looked like he let him have the first three rounds, barely threw a shot. And he didn't throw any head shots until about the 6th.

I also thought Floyd looked terrible, but I think that was because he didn't fight his usual fight because he didn't need to. Once McGregor was gassed Floyd neglected his jab and was just head hunting for a stoppage, which is unlike him.

Anyway, glad it's over.

I was impressed. He took 2, maybe 3 rounds off Floyd. Maybe it's because my expectations were so low. Thought he was going to falling over his own feet like Freddie Flintoff.

I think Floyd gifted those rounds to him, he barely threw anything back at the start. I know he likes to take his time and work the opponent out, but no way it took him 3 rounds to do so.

His assault increased significantly in round 4 and then again in round 6 when he started throwing upstairs.

Sure, Floyd measured him up and let him punch himself out but my point remains - technically speaking McGtegor did very well compared to my expectations. A debutant stepping in at this level, i think he can hold his head high for being even remotely competitive through 4 rounds (which is what a debutant usually fights).

[Oiky]

I thought mcgregors punching was terrible and very quickly he had no spite to them - agree with Bellew that mayweather carried him a bit.

He's a good fighter in the cage and that's what he should stick too

[Monte Fisto]

Watched the full farce earlier.

McGregor seemed to have no power on his shots at all and Floyd just totally disregarded his punches.

Makes all this talk of McGregor being a huge puncher laughable. Just goes to show how the punching technique is completely different to MMA. You can look like a powerful puncher when fighters are running into shots (ie Aldo Alvarez)

I'm glad it wasn't remotely competitive as it means ther won't be any crossover contests in the future.

I'm glad it is over so we can discuss real fights.

i agree with this, however my only concern is that with the money made here that there could be more crossover fights - but i really hope not. Any news on the numbers - i see the arena was only 3/4 full which is good news but i assume ppv numbers were super high.

[Sequitorian]

There will definitely more cross-over fights ... but only in one direction ...

NO top-rank, world-class boxer would ever get in a cage ...

... but every new MMA champ will jump at the chance to box ... not so much because of the money ...

... but because they want the legitimacy that boxing offers ...

That's why this fight got so much publicity and why MMA fans got so excited about it ... they wanted to be able to say that MMA is just as legitimate ... just as good or better than boxing ... (which it ain't) ...

Boxing is still #1 on the world stage ... (do the math) ...

[BitPlayer]

There will definitely more cross-over fights ... but only in one direction ...

NO top-rank, world-class boxer would ever get in a cage ...

... but every new MMA champ will jump at the chance to box ... not so much because of the money ...

... but because they want the legitimacy that boxing offers ...

That's why this fight got so much publicity and why MMA fans got so excited about it ... they wanted to be able to say that MMA is just as legitimate ... just as good or better than boxing ... (which it ain't) ...

Boxing is still #1 on the world stage ... (do the math) ...

And it's pretty silly. They should just stick to building up MMA. All these lopsided losses will do is delegitimise it, and pretty unfairly too. Ofcourse they can't compete in a different sport.

[BitPlayer]

Supposedly Floyd was out of sparring for a month before the fight with a hand injury.

[Sequitorian]

Supposedly Floyd was out of sparring for a month before the fight with a hand injury.

He said he didn't spar for the last month so he wouldn't injure his hands ... (smart move) ...

[Ketchel_2008]

To me from the 6th round it looked like when the local hardman goes into the boxing gym and gets trounced by the old trainer, a bit like Charlie z and maywesthers dad !
Mayweather never comes forward like that, hands up in front of his face he couldn't do that against a proper boxer. For the first few rounds it looked like it was to keep the fans with a remote sense of a contest.
I seriously feel he could have done what he did on the 9th and 10th round 2-3.
No snap I'm mcgregors punches and definitely no hurt to mayweather ! Would have hit a bag with the punches he was throwing and made it bend that's it.
Also why do I find myself after disliking him for 18 years growing to warm to the wife beating braggard

[BigRed]

Here's the fight for anyone thay hasn't seen it. American broadcast. They stay with the corners at end of each round.
https://youtu.be/wNjaTQRz8m0

[ShadrachSimmo]

To me from the 6th round it looked like when the local hardman goes into the boxing gym and gets trounced by the old trainer, a bit like Charlie z and maywesthers dad !
Mayweather never comes forward like that, hands up in front of his face he couldn't do that against a proper boxer. For the first few rounds it looked like it was to keep the fans with a remote sense of a contest.
I seriously feel he could have done what he did on the 9th and 10th round 2-3.
No snap I'm mcgregors punches and definitely no hurt to mayweather ! Would have hit a bag with the punches he was throwing and made it bend that's it.
Also why do I find myself after disliking him for 18 years growing to warm to the wife beating braggard

I think boxing fans finally found someone even more arrogant and more of a cock than Mayweather could ever be and we sided with Floyd for the sport.

Mcgregor is a classless arsehole. Thoroughly detestable I hope this complete embarrassment has diluted his acidic persona. But I fckin doubt it.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Were people honestly impressed by McGregor?

He looked slow, little power, terrible footwork, chin in the air and bricking it.

Floyd looked like he let him have the first three rounds, barely threw a shot. And he didn't throw any head shots until about the 6th.

I also thought Floyd looked terrible, but I think that was because he didn't fight his usual fight because he didn't need to. Once McGregor was gassed Floyd neglected his jab and was just head hunting for a stoppage, which is unlike him.

Anyway, glad it's over.

I was impressed. He took 2, maybe 3 rounds off Floyd. Maybe it's because my expectations were so low. Thought he was going to falling over his own feet like Freddie Flintoff.

I guess anyone who wasn't impressed expected a real donnybrook. He landed many clean punches, I expected him to land none. The only time before or after the fight I worried about funny business was when I thought Byrd might award Conor a TKo for that barrage of fouls that he didn't even warn him for. Much more entertaining than Floyd/Pac or Floyd/Canelo.

[Loynesy]

Floyd fought the perfect fight. A 40 year old, non-fighting, no-sparring Mayweather spends a couple of rounds taking a look at the guy and then slowly dismantled him. With ok hands, he could have taken him out any time from the 4th, prime Floyd could have taken him out from the first second of the fight.

I don't begrudge either man their purse, although I strongly suspect McG will be way south of 100m, and the gross will be less than FMJ v PAC, as it's a free market and no one forced anyone to buy the PPV or a ticket.

As a consumer of boxing, I'm certainly happier that my Vegas trip this year is to GGG v Canelo.

[Ezzard]

Shit fight. I dislike Floyd. And McGregor is a non-entity in boxing.

Floyd is overrated and obnoxious pudendum...but he's probably the dirtiest fighter I've ever seen...fair play on that. I can admire that. Just stinks that he always owns the ref too.

All I hope is he stays retired now and we can end the running sore that has been his career.

[Realistic]

The fact you are all still talking about it is disrespectful to boxing. CM was awful, his punches were awful, his feet were awful, his positioning was awful and his stamina was awful. The only thing he has is a half decent chin end of. Let this circus act of a fight die a death.

[Andrew]

The fact you are all still talking about it is disrespectful to boxing. CM was awful, his punches were awful, his feet were awful, his positioning was awful and his stamina was awful. The only thing he has is a half decent chin end of. Let this circus act of a fight die a death.

Pretty much this.

I'm glad it's over now.