First let me preface my remarks by saying I like boxing as much as I dislike MMA. If you dig MMA that's cool but I don't. Some times I root for money. Some times I don't. Last night I did. A boxer should never lose to a mixed martial artist in a boxing match.
How much of Mayweather's performance can be attributed to the fact that he is forty years old and coming off a two year layoff and the fact he abandoned his safety first style and took the lead against McGregor ?
All in all he did stop McGregor, cleanly in my opinion.
Mayweather questions
Re: Mayweather questions
You can attribute most of his performance to the fact that he felt so at ease in the fight he didn't even feel the need to really start fighting until about Round 5.
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Re: Mayweather questions
Even then, all he did was just follow McGregor around.gilgamesh wrote:You can attribute most of his performance to the fact that he felt so at ease in the fight he didn't even feel the need to really start fighting until about Round 5.
He let McGregor circle all night, and didn't care to cut the ring off.
Completely telegraphed right hands from 5 feet away.
He also didn't counter McGregor in a way that would of hurt McGregor.
Just the most comfortable big event fighter ever entertaining the crowd one last time.
Re: Mayweather questions
BAD INTENTIONS wrote:gilgamesh wrote:You can attribute most of his performance to the fact that he felt so at ease in the fight he didn't even feel the need to really start fighting until about Round 5.
Just the most comfortable big event fighter ever entertaining the crowd one last time.
I almost died laughing when he came out in the ninja outfit. It was even funnier than when the Burger King accompanied him to the ring.
Re: Mayweather questions
The course of the fight is attributable to the fact that Mayweather was guaranteed victory if he followed that game plan. Earmuffs early on to tire McGregor out without getting hurt; easily knock him out after he's tired. McGregor has never gone more than 5 rounds / 25 minutes in a pro fight, so there was good reason to expect him to get very tired by round 8-9. Presumably McGregor's only path to victory was landing something hard early on, and the earmuffs took that away. Between Mayweather's vastly superior skills, fairly sharp punching, and McGregor tiring; it could have been expected that Mayweather could get the easy stoppage if he went hunting for it after round 8. I don't see there being anything weird about how the fight played out.