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oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 12:09
by vidal
Can't blame the lad for trying to line up another bumper payday I guess.......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/41834640

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 12:26
by milpool
Fine, have another boxing match but you wouldn't beat Floyd in a rematch.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 12:33
by Controversial
FM carried him, surely McGregor knows this.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 13:51
by tiny_acres
The guy knows he'll never be able to make even close to the amount of money in UFC.
His antics scream of desperation

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 14:07
by squiggy
Jokerism like this is very much the boxing world's own fault.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 14:29
by Ossyrules
Mcgregor is no boxer. Floyd carried him. Put the carnival behind him and get back in the octagon where it’s proper business

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 14:59
by punchoutsb
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 13:51 The guy knows he'll never be able to make even close to the amount of money in UFC.
His antics scream of desperation
Parlaying massive paydays from the drivers seat is the opposite of desperation.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 15:15
by tiny_acres
punchoutsb wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 14:59
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 13:51 The guy knows he'll never be able to make even close to the amount of money in UFC.
His antics scream of desperation
Parlaying massive paydays from the drivers seat is the opposite of desperation.
He makes a fraction of what he made in boxing in the UFC

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 15:25
by SaadOffTheDeck
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:15
punchoutsb wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 14:59
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 13:51 The guy knows he'll never be able to make even close to the amount of money in UFC.
His antics scream of desperation
Parlaying massive paydays from the drivers seat is the opposite of desperation.
He makes a fraction of what he made in boxing in the UFC
Boxers make a fraction of what he made. No other fight comes close to that. Joshua and canelo are the only active fighters that come close to his UFC paydays.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 15:37
by tiny_acres
SaadOffTheDeck wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:25
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:15
punchoutsb wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 14:59

Parlaying massive paydays from the drivers seat is the opposite of desperation.
He makes a fraction of what he made in boxing in the UFC
Boxers make a fraction of what he made. No other fight comes close to that. Joshua and canelo are the only active fighters that come close to his UFC paydays.
From the figures I just read Connor made 9,542,000 total UFC career earnings
Only 3 of his fights were million dollar plus fights.
UFC rips off their stars

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 16:28
by SaadOffTheDeck
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:37
SaadOffTheDeck wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:25
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:15

He makes a fraction of what he made in boxing in the UFC
Boxers make a fraction of what he made. No other fight comes close to that. Joshua and canelo are the only active fighters that come close to his UFC paydays.
From the figures I just read Connor made 9,542,000 total UFC career earnings
Only 3 of his fights were million dollar plus fights.
UFC rips off their stars
He made 15 million in the second Diaz fight. The top guys make way more on the ppv buys than they do on the reported earnings. I believe the ballpark number for his UFC earnings is 40 million. He'll be bigger when he goes back after likely generating the biggest payday the UFC has ever had. I'd guess he'll be around 20-25 million for his next fight. Boxers being so overpaid is what killed the sport here. While some of the fighters are under valued McGregor hasn't been ripped off at all.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 16:33
by Oiky
Stick to the cage

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 16:37
by tiny_acres
SaadOffTheDeck wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 16:28
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:37
SaadOffTheDeck wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:25

Boxers make a fraction of what he made. No other fight comes close to that. Joshua and canelo are the only active fighters that come close to his UFC paydays.
From the figures I just read Connor made 9,542,000 total UFC career earnings
Only 3 of his fights were million dollar plus fights.
UFC rips off their stars
He made 15 million in the second Diaz fight. The top guys make way more on the ppv buys than they do on the reported earnings. I believe the ballpark number for his UFC earnings is 40 million. He'll be bigger when he goes back after likely generating the biggest payday the UFC has ever had. I'd guess he'll be around 20-25 million for his next fight. Boxers being so overpaid is what killed the sport here. While some of the fighters are under valued McGregor hasn't been ripped off at all.
A list of Connors earnings by fight

http://thesportsdaily.com/mma-manifesto ... -earnings/

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 16:38
by SaadOffTheDeck
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 16:37
SaadOffTheDeck wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 16:28
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:37

From the figures I just read Connor made 9,542,000 total UFC career earnings
Only 3 of his fights were million dollar plus fights.
UFC rips off their stars
He made 15 million in the second Diaz fight. The top guys make way more on the ppv buys than they do on the reported earnings. I believe the ballpark number for his UFC earnings is 40 million. He'll be bigger when he goes back after likely generating the biggest payday the UFC has ever had. I'd guess he'll be around 20-25 million for his next fight. Boxers being so overpaid is what killed the sport here. While some of the fighters are under valued McGregor hasn't been ripped off at all.
A list of Connors earnings by fight

http://thesportsdaily.com/mma-manifesto ... -earnings/
That's just the contract salary money.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 01 Nov 2017, 19:55
by punchoutsb
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 15:15
punchoutsb wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 14:59
tiny_acres wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 13:51 The guy knows he'll never be able to make even close to the amount of money in UFC.
His antics scream of desperation
Parlaying massive paydays from the drivers seat is the opposite of desperation.
He makes a fraction of what he made in boxing in the UFC
He is parlaying massive paydays from the drivers seat. That is not desperation, your initial point was flawed.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 02 Nov 2017, 00:04
by Kalan
Controversial wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 12:33 FM carried him, surely McGregor knows this.
Floyd didn't carry McGregor.. Floyd was using forearms and elbows viciously and going for the finish on a tiring McGregor as hard as he could.. Conor went out as soon as Floyd could arrange it.. If they had a rematch McGregor would do much better.. He learned that he has big time stamina issues because he DIDN'T DO ROADWORK!!! Every once in a while there's a freak of nature like Toney who doesn't have to do roadwork.. 99.9% of boxers can never get away with that. If you have stamina issues, they will disappear with a great regimen of running and sprinting..

If you can't do that 5 miles in 30 minutes and recover very quickly from your run, you WILL get tired against a top skilled opponent who has great conditioning.. He can be on your ass for 12 and you're not ready for it..

If you can click off the miles like nothing and you're still getting tired -- you can't box worth a shiit. You're getting hit in the head too much and that gets you exhausted from the nervous energy expended trying to survive.. McGregor slips punches very well, but he has a fuuked up stance and his defense is a screwed up.. His head is in the air so he's wide open.. That can be corrected quickly if he brings in a top boxing coach..

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 02 Nov 2017, 00:07
by Lackeos
I feel like Mayweather - McGregor 2 would not have a lot of appeal to anyone who saw the first one (even though it was decent entertainment compared to most of Mayweather's fights). I think it is a lot easier to sell McGregor against a fresh opponent. I feel like McGregor's most lucrative prospective opponents would be...
1) Pacquiao
2) Mayweather 2
3) Alvarez
4) Cotto
5) Khan

However, from a competitiveness perspective, I would personally prefer that he were matched against Pacquiao, Cotto, or Khan.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 02 Nov 2017, 00:11
by Kalan
Those would not be good match-ups for him... Floyd is better because he's older and more vulnerable.

If I would do any boxer I would go for Malignaggi... He's pretty certain to win that one just by punching the shiit out of Paulie.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 02 Nov 2017, 01:26
by SaadOffTheDeck
None of those fights make as much money as a return to the cage.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 02 Nov 2017, 03:31
by Controversial
Kalan wrote: 02 Nov 2017, 00:04
Controversial wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 12:33 FM carried him, surely McGregor knows this.
Floyd didn't carry McGregor..
I disagree, FM let him punch himself out in the first few rounds, he was smiling most of the fight and later admitted he didn't train too hard. Snr also said his son hardly trained. McGregor was blowing after 4 rounds and FM hardly broke into a sweat. Even then he managed to stop the bigger man without too much effort, something he hadn't done in 6 years. It was a farce and was only made to make multi-millionaires even more money.

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 02 Nov 2017, 04:48
by Ossyrules
Kalan wrote: 02 Nov 2017, 00:04
Controversial wrote: 01 Nov 2017, 12:33 FM carried him, surely McGregor knows this.
Floyd didn't carry McGregor.. Floyd was using forearms and elbows viciously and going for the finish on a tiring McGregor as hard as he could.. Conor went out as soon as Floyd could arrange it.. If they had a rematch McGregor would do much better.. He learned that he has big time stamina issues because he DIDN'T DO ROADWORK!!! Every once in a while there's a freak of nature like Toney who doesn't have to do roadwork.. 99.9% of boxers can never get away with that. If you have stamina issues, they will disappear with a great regimen of running and sprinting..

If you can't do that 5 miles in 30 minutes and recover very quickly from your run, you WILL get tired against a top skilled opponent who has great conditioning.. He can be on your ass for 12 and you're not ready for it..

If you can click off the miles like nothing and you're still getting tired -- you can't box worth a shiit. You're getting hit in the head too much and that gets you exhausted from the nervous energy expended trying to survive.. McGregor slips punches very well, but he has a fuuked up stance and his defense is a screwed up.. His head is in the air so he's wide open.. That can be corrected quickly if he brings in a top boxing coach..
Mcgregor was carried

Re: oooohhhh Give over Connor

Posted: 02 Nov 2017, 04:50
by Ossyrules
Lackeos wrote: 02 Nov 2017, 00:07 I feel like Mayweather - McGregor 2 would not have a lot of appeal to anyone who saw the first one (even though it was decent entertainment compared to most of Mayweather's fights). I think it is a lot easier to sell McGregor against a fresh opponent. I feel like McGregor's most lucrative prospective opponents would be...
1) Pacquiao
2) Mayweather 2
3) Alvarez
4) Cotto
5) Khan

However, from a competitiveness perspective, I would personally prefer that he were matched against Pacquiao, Cotto, or Khan.
I’d say the other 4 guys put a worse beating on mcgregor than Mayweather did. That’s if they didn’t carry him. They are all bigger punchers and more attacking. Mcgregor has no business boxing guys of this quality