Comments Thread For: McGregor: Me vs. Mayweather Generates Half a Billion

[FrenchDeLaHoya]

whose this guy?

kevin mcbride? isnt he a heavyweight

[SlySlickSmooth]

McCregor: Dana doesn't pay me enough as a top fighter so I should have the eligibility to be worthy for Mayweather even though Maidana would whoop my ass.

[Eastcoast]

You are saying that if Chad Mendes had a full training camp to prepare for Conor that the rematch would go the same? Mendes took the fight on two weeks notice. I wish I could say that Conor's striking is so good that he'd beat Mendes each time they fought, but in fact Conor was fighting having had a full training camp, and Mendes was fighting having at best a quarter training camp. You believe that a well conditioned Mendes would not fare any better against Conor than when he had a two week camp? Two weeks means that Chad had no chance to hit his peak, and that difference alone could well have meant the difference of Conor escaping and scoring the stoppage or Conor not escaping and finishing the period on the ground in Mendes control. Look at it this way: what if it were Conor who had a two week camp and subsequently lost a fight which he was pretty much in continuous control. Would you not believe that Conor's chances in a rematch - where he had a full training camp - would increase his chances of winning?

Mendes was not a peak shape - agreed. However, in the first 2 minutes of round 1, McGregor was landing kicks to the body and stunned Mendes with a head shot that resulted in Mendes huffing and puffing hard as Rogan pointed out during that time.

Chad was in good enough shape that he wasn't completely spent in under 2 rounds from his own exertion - he gassed quickly due to damage. I'll concede that maybe if he was at peak he could've recovered faster as he did in the Aldo rematch, but outside of Aldo we haven't seen Chad hurt too bad by anyone like McGregor was doing.

Keep in mind McGregor only had 2 weeks to prepare for Mendes' style vs Aldo's. Also the media obligations McGregor was subjected to crunched those 2 weeks of prep even more. The 1st take down alone was due to McGregor taunting and Chad timed it right. There's more that can be corrected from Conor's side than Chad's. He stayed calm on the ground and waited for the transition, and burst on top of Chad once to their feet - not common.

Additionally McGregor had re-injured his knee rolling with Rory McDonald during the Canadian portion of the tour and was splitting his training camp with physical therapy, even receiving stem cell therapy in LA. A rematch with a full training camp will result in a stronger McGregor as well.

[STEELHEAD]

UFC MMA are they going to become the new stomping grounds for the up and comeing boxers scene.

someone give the the numbers of the successfull crossovers.

[Eastcoast]

McCregor: Dana doesn't pay me enough as a top fighter so I should have the eligibility to be worthy for Mayweather even though Maidana would whoop my ass.

McGregor's was 26 years old for his 5th fight in the UFC and he just made $4mill in that fight alone.

Go back to 2003 when Floyd was around that age, a US Olympic medalist who'd been on tv almost all 30 of his pro fights - Floyd just got his biggest payday yet - $2.4mill for the Castillo rematch and had yet to become popular enough for a ppv.

[Dean_Razorback]

no, you won't, 'cause nobody knows you

[SlySlickSmooth]

McGregor's was 26 years old for his 5th fight in the UFC and he just made $4mill in that fight alone.

Go back to 2003 when Floyd was around that age, a US Olympic medalist who'd been on tv almost all 30 of his pro fights - Floyd just got his biggest payday yet - $2.4mill for the Castillo rematch and had yet to become popular enough for a ppv.

Oh, you got me.

I guess you could say fighters nowadays are blessed to fight in the social media era.

[Eastcoast]

Oh, you got me.

I guess you could say fighters nowadays are blessed to fight in the social media era.

Absolutely. Ray Robinson was an incredible self-promoter and he had the skill, style and balls to go and back it up. In today's world at the start of his peak, SRR would be mega.