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Re: Honest opinion was that a knock down?
Posted: 15 Aug 2017, 07:04
by bripez
Ossyrules wrote:Not meaning to sound petulant here, but there should be a who cares option.
Not a who cares in the grand scheme of things, ie the mismatch fight, but the who cares aspect that it was just sparring.
Sparring is training, just preparing for the big fight, should be private. Eubank jr was a pioneer of loading up sparring of him bullying a young kid in sparring on snapchat, it's wrong!
Malignaggi is/was employed by mcgregor to prep him for Mayweather. Mcgregor will soar loads of rounds to get ready, and will look shite in a lot of them. It doesn't mean anything till it's the big fight, that's when the fighting gets judged
I do agree, however on this occasion Malignaggi only spoke out after Mcgregor fooked him off without paying him.
To be fair to Malignaggi he hasn't given away any tactics or secrets - he said he will speak during the fight (which I am sure has helped him negotiate a fee with the TV company).
As to whether it is a real knockdown, Malignaggi is still insisting it wasn't and Mcgregor has only released edited highlights so far, so at the moment I am leaning towards believing Malignaggi.
Re: Honest opinion was that a knock down?
Posted: 15 Aug 2017, 07:14
by stujones
Seems like based on the footage - odds on McGregor are continuing to shorten.
Now, the bookies feel McGragor has more of a chance vs Mayweather, than Jamie Cox vs George Groves.
Re: Honest opinion was that a knock down?
Posted: 15 Aug 2017, 07:43
by kbackup408
stujones wrote:Seems like based on the footage - odds on McGregor are continuing to shorten.
Now, the bookies feel McGragor has more of a chance vs Mayweather, than Jamie Cox vs George Groves.
still feel like Mayweather will win pal but you never know Vegas might do Flyod dirty because they know Connor is bringing the cheese now and give a split decision to McG, haha !
Re: Honest opinion was that a knock down?
Posted: 15 Aug 2017, 09:20
by danconnollyeire
stujones wrote:Seems like based on the footage - odds on McGregor are continuing to shorten.
Now, the bookies feel McGragor has more of a chance vs Mayweather, than Jamie Cox vs George Groves.
Crazy. The only way McGregor wins is if Floyd suddenly goes blind as C Mc throwns a straight left
Re: Honest opinion was that a knock down?
Posted: 15 Aug 2017, 09:23
by danconnollyeire
Dixonian wrote:Ossyrules wrote:Dixonian wrote:
Funnily enough when Eubank Snr used to spar apparently he used to get people to beat him up!
I read Muhammad Ali used to look bad in sparring as he used to concentrate on defence a lot. So his sparring partners were loading up and not a lot coming back from the greatest! But when the opening bell rang, the greatest was the greatest!
Big audley Harrison used very modest skillset sparring partners due to what I believe was a lack of confidence. Sparring for him was a confidence builder by being able to dominate opponents.
Then you have every man and his dog has apparently done Joshua in sparring.
This is why I don't read into it. It's all on fight night
That's interesting about Audley - I always thought he looked like a guy who didn't spar enough.
Hagler used to hire Heavyweights to try punch holes in him!
Re: Honest opinion was that a knock down?
Posted: 15 Aug 2017, 09:24
by danconnollyeire
gilgamesh wrote:thechump wrote:coneye wrote:Its a load of shite ,, all set up to suck in mugs to buy Mcregors next PPV against Pauly ,, start with since when do refs show up to ref a sparring session
Mcgregor asked him to help out with the does and do nots of the rules in pro boxing and joe cortez abliged
Don't know what's confusing about the rules of Boxing that you'd need to hire somebody to explain 'em to you to begin with. I figured this sh*t out pretty quickly.
No Conor, you can't kick him in the face!
Re: Honest opinion was that a knock down?
Posted: 15 Aug 2017, 10:27
by TheGman
danconnollyeire wrote:gilgamesh wrote:thechump wrote:
Mcgregor asked him to help out with the does and do nots of the rules in pro boxing and joe cortez abliged
Don't know what's confusing about the rules of Boxing that you'd need to hire somebody to explain 'em to you to begin with. I figured this sh*t out pretty quickly.
No Conor, you can't kick him in the face!
Hahaha