Comments Thread For: Conor McGregor Announces His Retirement

Yea no doubt. The way we'll likely be able to view things is gonna be enhanced to & its a good bet that whole "first person shooter" view is a road which will be taken. I've been talking about this with streaming content in fact as the reason I see streaming taking over for broadcasting is cuz with streaming you can customize your viewing experience. They just haven't fully implemented it yet or explored options. But I think its doable right now to give people the ability to watch the fight (or w/e event) from any seat in the house or from the ref or the judges POV. And if you extrapolate that out to a VR world of the future you could easily see us being able to view a fight from any seat in the house as brought up but including from the POV of either fighter. Randomly I think this will be the road movies of the future take also. I kinda feel like movies & video games will blend together more or there will be a new genre of entertainment that will do this. Like you'll be going to play that new movie Friday vs simply watching it. Definitely bro. It's the way of the future. I'm in my 40s but I can definitely see this happening before I'm no more. AI and VR will be the next consumer technology boom.

He's pulling a floyd retirement . He's gonna wait out when the good ones fight it out . Then come back when Khabib is retired.

Idk about this exactly anyway. One could argue that MMA is a modification to boxing using this theory. But boxing still exists. I definitely think MMA advances just like boxing has advanced. Watch the oldest fight you can find & then watch some fight from Saturday. You'll see advancements & you'll notice more if you read about how things worked back then vs how they work now. So I have no doubt MMA has a similar trajectory but not to the point of using weapons lol. Granted I do expect new combat sports to be birthed from trying to top MMA or other fighting styles & I think we can already see things like this existing. There are those sword fighting in a cage guys. There is that gang fight MMA league that I believe has 3 vs 3 or 5 vs 5 man fights. Even BKB was a hybrid combat sport & I'm sure there are others. But I think the base of MMA stays the same not unlike the base of Boxing has if we could somehow view it 100 years in the future. One thing I do suspect is sports, specifically dangerous sports like the NFL, Boxing & MMA among other higher risk sports, will be taking place in a VR environment at some future date when the technology is viable to replicate if not enhance the competive experience. I've theorized on this numerous times in the past cuz I think VR tech is gonna vastly change our world in many ways not just with sports but I think you could push all fighting sports up a notch by having guys fighting to the death in the VR world thus it'd be more exciting without the tragedy of true death. Plus unlike in real combat sports where top guys fight 2-3 times a year you could have VR fighters who are only having a avatar of them being harmed could fight multiple times in a night. With the video game culture ingrained in the younger generations I think this is a fairly obvious path to take. Along with the fact in our PC wear a helmet culture athletes being seriously injured or dying isn't going to be an acceptable thing forever. VR sports will instantly end deaths, severe injuries & even punch drunkness in boxing. /my scifi future of boxing, MMA & sports in general speculation lol When you lay it out like that if course this will be the future. Especially with technology advancement and the fact everyone nowadays is hooked up into the Web. Come to think of it its very odvious that this is what the future will bring. Imagine being able to be Ali in a Ali/Foreman 3 being able to use VR to replicate that fight and experience it thru the eyes of either fighter. Amazing.

I'll give you more examples of sh...iii...tt...talkers: Tyson Fury MacGregor Tony Bellew BJ Saunders Derick Chisora Or wait; none of the above are Americans. And Bellew and Saunders rarely if ever fought in the US. Were they made crazy millionaires? No... now if they were American... they would have been praised and made PPV stars in a second.... but of course when a comment strikes a nerve all sense of coherent reality goes out the window and defense mechanism kicks into ultimate mode

His punching power, with boxing gloves on, made Paul Spadafora look like Mike Tyson. He may have won an "Intercontinental Interim Gold Presumably of Interest" belt from one group or another, but no one would have cared. His punching power with gloves would be pretty much different had he trained in boxing for the last 20 years instead of MMA, grappling, kicking ect... That is pretty much obvious. He did well with Floyd when you think about his his 0-0 record, he grabbed some rounds which is ridiculous. And I believe he would play with Floyd in the octagon

Consider this. Maybe they'll square up...in WWE. To my shame, I've learned that I'll watch absolutely anything even remotely fight related and Paulie vs Conor in WWE sounds better than anything currently on the TV. Just tell me when.

looks like he didnt want to try to beat a few contenders to get a shot again or most likely doesnt have it anymore, drink and drugs kinda do that to people hehe

Idk about this exactly anyway. One could argue that MMA is a modification to boxing using this theory. But boxing still exists. Granted I do expect new combat sports to be birthed from trying to top MMA or other fighting styles & I think we can already see things like this existing. There are those sword fighting in a cage guys. There is that gang fight MMA league that I believe has 3 vs 3 or 5 vs 5 man fights. Even BKB was a hybrid combat sport & I'm sure there are others. But I think the base of MMA stays the same not unlike the base of Boxing has if we could somehow view it 100 years in the future. One thing I do suspect is sports, specifically dangerous sports like the NFL, Boxing & MMA among other higher risk sports, will be taking place in a VR environment at some future date when the technology is viable to replicate if not enhance the competive experience. I've theorized on this numerous times in the past cuz I think VR tech is gonna vastly change our world in many ways not just with sports but I think you could push all fighting sports up a notch by having guys fighting to the death in the VR world thus it'd be more exciting without the tragedy of true death. Plus unlike in real combat sports where top guys fight 2-3 times a year you could have VR fighters who are only having a avatar of them being harmed could fight multiple times in a night. With the video game culture ingrained in the younger generations I think this is a fairly obvious path to take. Along with the fact in our PC wear a helmet culture athletes being seriously injured or dying isn't going to be an acceptable thing forever. VR sports will instantly end deaths, severe injuries & even punch drunkness in boxing. /my scifi future of boxing, MMA & sports in general speculation lol Appreciate your insight into the potential (and probable) impact to combat and sports competition in general by virtual reality, I had not thought of that. Personally I would not watch anything in VR where someone died as it would be too real. However, think about all the fantasy matchups between boxers of different eras that could happen. No real outcomes of course but if the creators are serious enough we would probably have very close approximations of real results.

I fail to comprehend Americans insatiable need and praise for sh..iii... tt... talkers... idiotic mentality that praises smack talk more than the actual substance of skills... example.... floyd Mayweather... praised and valued like a king.... vs Guillermo rigeandoux who had 2 times more quality considered boring.... I know people will discredit based on the Loma fight... anyway.... oh pitiful America.... Rigo was a chinless little quitter that didn’t have mayweathers quality or heart. If mayweather took a shot he didn’t drop like rigo did against little guys. Rigo was a little man. Mayweather would beat his ass in an exhibition and make his ass quit in one round tenshin style. Rigo was worth watching but never went undefeated fighting the quality of fighters mayweather fought. He doesn’t even hold a candle or even come anywhere near Floyd’s accomplishments. Chocolatito was another overhyped little muff that also could get his ass knocked out in an exhibition by mighty mayweather!!

I wonder if the distractions of all the legal stuff influenced him. I can see him unretiring again when a big enough paycheck is offered.

Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you in the @ss.

I don’t blame him. He has a lot of money. Could go on to be in movies, WWE, and even have one last big PPV fight against Pacquiao.

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Negotiation tactic - he's just looking to bleed a bit more money out for his next fight.

Good, now join in the next Stallone movie!

I fail to comprehend Americans insatiable need and praise for sh..iii... tt... talkers... idiotic mentality that praises smack talk more than the actual substance of skills... example.... floyd Mayweather... praised and valued like a king.... vs Guillermo rigeandoux who had 2 times more quality considered boring.... I know people will discredit based on the Loma fight... anyway.... oh pitiful America....

I think it's hard to say. Would LeBron James have been a titlist if he'd taken up boxing? Neither did. LeBron pursued a career in basketball and McGregor became a plumber. I think that Lebron James as a boxer would have followed the career path of Ed "Too Tall" Jones.

MMA isn't anywhere near as evolved as it'll be in another century & change doe. Hell boxing evolved fairly quickly too from 1892 to 1918. Look at it now vs 1918 doe? Idk about that. I think boxing & MMA have similar, but highly different skill sets for success. I don't suspect a whole lot of guys could be top 3ish, top 5ish in both if another road had been taken. And I suspect the guys who coulda been high level in both are probably less impressive top guys like maybe a guy like Shawn Porter & a guy like Francis Ngannau for some examples. Maybe there are even more & better examples in guys who didn't excel at a high level in their chosen professional sport that coulda excelled in the other sport & they basically just choose the wrong sport through love or opportunities presented to them early on. For one thing I think with the small gloves & rules that score against guys more aggressively for not advancing the action standup defense is barely a thing in MMA like it is in boxing so thats a huge unknown to know how one would have transitioned into a whole other sport with a high enough level to compete at the top ten level & even excel there to the point of winning a belt. I don't think I'd bet on McGregor being a title holder in some alternative universe where he choose boxing instead of MMA. He'd likely be a winning record guy I have enough confidence in saying. But that puts him in the wide range of top 200ish on up probably. MMA has become very popular because it is far more violent than boxing. Once people become bored by MMA there will be some type of modification (perhaps hand to hand weapons) to liven up the sport with of course more modifications to follow down the road.

Smart move. MMA fighters have shorter career spans than boxers. When you are worth $200M, why put yourself through all that? He won't defeat any significant boxer in a boxing ring and he is coming off a big loss in the octagon. Time to enjoy life.

Good and he should retire. I would do the same if i was him. He has made more money than any MMA fighters and boxers can only dream of. I bet it’s hard for him to get up for fights after making that kind of money. Fuk it. Retire and enjoy life. And if he gets the itch to comeback, he certainly can because there are millions of sucker out there who will pay to watch him fight haha.