Comments Thread For: Mayweather Tells Smith That McGregor Fight Very, Very Close'

[rasdun]

Dont biy this fight!! Mayweather should come back and fight the winner of Thurman vs Garcia

of course not...I would hope any real fight fan would not spend money on this farce

[cali37]

McGregor will retire in his stool by round 8

[thack]

Complete cash grab nothing more.......this is NOT boxing this is banking.

[rasdun]

After the Pacquiao fight, I decided I would never buy another Mayweather fight again. I did not buy Pac's last couple of bouts neither.
I bought Cotto v Canelo; I will buy GGG v. Jacobs; (only didn't buy Ward v Kovalev bc I had plans).
At this point, we know what maywethare is about, and it's not competition. It's about getting paid, dancing around the ring for 12 rounds and landing 4-5 jabs, 1-2 straight rights and limiting his opponents to only 3 punches per round, and winning a boring decision. Mayweather has 1 knockout since what 2005 ( I am only including knockouts where the other guy was looking, lol)
And I am not denigrating those that are mayweather fans. He is a great defensive fighter; I just derive no enjoyment from watching his fights anymore whatsoever. And would derive even less enjoyment if he was fighting someone who had never fought a professional boxing fight before.
Does anyone think McGregor has even a puncher's chance? This is similar to when james Toney fought randy Couture in UFC - Toney didn't even have a puncher's chance in that fight. Same thing here. If possible the fight will be even more boring than Mayweather v. pac

[steeve steel]

I just want Macgregor to shame Mayweather... by outdressing him!

[O Prophet]

Fraud Jr desperately trying to keep his fading name in the news.

[The tucker]

If this fight does happen as a mayweather fan I will be very disappointed.

But the only way I see this fight happening is if Dana ****d Connor in even more in the negotiations. Or Dana is just giving him hope so he could somehow sue both McGregor and mayweather.

But no matter how it goes it makes mayweather look weak picking a mma fighter.

[NaijaD]

I would understand if it was a kickboxing match so Conor could at least use his legs but as a boxing match this is utter trash and you'd have to be a moron to spend any money on this. I was really hoping Dana would put a stop to this nonsense.... like seriously who is asking to see McGregor box Floyd???

[batista84]

This is a money grab, but being honest I'd pay to see Mayweather one last time on the ring, dude will be on all time great status years from now.

And the event will be huge, more like a sideshow instead of an actual fight but I'm a fan of Floyd and I'd like to see him one last time before he never comes back.

As far as PPV sales this thing will be drived by mainstream public, most of the buyers will be MMA fans that I can guarantee, and the other part will be casuals, with boxing fans being a very little minority on the buying end.

Got no doubt this would sell a lot, but being honest I just don't see this beating the 4.4 mill that Mayweather vs Pacquiao did back then, that's a huuuuuge humber and I don't see that record being broke in the near future.

[turnedup]

If there is any truth to this expect an injunction hearing. The new owners of UFC aren't going to let this happen without getting a massive cut.