AaronJW

I brought up the Mayweather-McGregor fight with some non-boxing fans.. "Mcgregor is going to be the first white boxing champ in modern history" "Right. If had more time and practice for sure he could beat mayweather" "there hasn't been a white boxing champ in over 100 years. McGregor will become the first. Rocky Marciano was Italian so he doesn't count" "Joe louis was the only major boxing champ i think that was white. Think he was during the time after mahamad ali but could be wrong" "Pacquaio possibly the greatest defense game in boxing. One of the very few that almost never used the clinch right?"

That's the one! Thanks

There was a moment, maybe in the 2nd round, when Mcgregor was wide open and Mayweather was coming in with a straight right. At the last second he dropped his hand and hit him in the chest instead of the chin. Mayweather was just messing around for most of the fight. Mcgregor clearly lacks boxing technique (arm-punching) and punches in slow-motion... but he's not a boxer so yeah, we all knew that.

And Connors chin did not move, either Floyd was way off or he missed on purpose, you can even see the smirk breaking on Floyds face right after the upper lands , quite a revealing gif Yes. He looks like he's trying hard not to smile afterwards.

Yeah I agree Mayweather carried the fight. I don't know if "faked" is the right word because I think McGregor was genuinely trying. Here's my reasons: 1. There's no way he'd let it become a fight like the Pacquiao fight, and anger all the fans and PPV buyers. Mayweather said himself that he owes the fans a good fight. Based on that alone we could predict that Floyd won't end the fight early on. 2. Is this a fake punch?!? http://i.imgur.com/5YwuKHZ.gif Looks to me like McGregor is wide open, Floyd goes for the face or chin with the straight right, but drops his hand at the last moment to miss. I'm surprised the commentators didn't notice.

I dunno....I just feel like there's a divide here between people who know about boxing technique and people who just watch boxing matches. And then you have the UFC fans who know even less. Anyway, it's interesting.

I'm quite lucky- here in Japan I know a Canadian and an American who are both really into boxing, and we always talk about upcoming fights and stuff. The funny thing is, I only found out that they were into boxing after I started to get into it about 2 years ago. It'd be great if we could all watch the next big match together, Alvarez vs Golovkin

Mayweather uses it well! Jabbing to the body means you can feint to the body in order to land big shots upstairs. I think Maidana got Broner like this and scored a KD, if I remember correctly

Great minds think alike lol. Posted a minute before mine. Lol, we made the same points too Basically what I've learned about the jab to the body is mostly from a youtube video. The guy who made the video was saying that it's an important punch and that it's not utilized as much as it should be.

He was a good defender!

There was a guy on youtube about 2 years ago, "Wilson Kayden", who made great videos analyzing matches and clips to teach boxing techniques and to predict matches. He did a very good breakdown of the Mayweather-Pacqiuao fight and he seemed to really know his stuff. Regarding Golovkin, he focused on his technical ability rather than power- i.e. Golovkin's counter-punching, defence, and ability to cut off the ring, and seemed to rate Golovkin very highly. It would be awesome if he was still making videos because a breakdown/prediction of the Canelo/Golovkin fight would have been very interesting. With that said, I have a feeling he would have picked Golovkin to win.