would fighting mcgregor be the biggest cherry pick of all time?

[W1LL]

Yes bigdramashow, it would be. Floyd would be using another man's momentum to stay relevant, earning piles of cash while taking on a complete novice. Floyd is one of the best of his generation but his cherry-picking has damaged his legacy.

[Vadrigar.]

The kid caved.

hahahahaha this gets me every time after seeing nachos facial expression underneath.

[Madison Boxing]

Yes bigdramashow, it would be. Floyd would be using another man's momentum to stay relevant, earning piles of cash while taking on a complete novice. Floyd is one of the best of his generation but his cherry-picking has damaged his legacy.

hes had a tremendous career but to me it taints his legacy somewhat that hes chosen berto and mcgregor to limp over the line to get his 50-0. Its a phoney 50 really. if hes willing to fight, he should be willing to fight someone good, thats the way i see it. it would have put the cherry on top of his career if at the age of 40 he got his 50 by beating keith thurman. Hes got enough money as it is, he'd have got paid a **** load anyway to fight thurman as he would against any legit contender, hes chosen money over legacy.

[rickJen]

Is there VADA testing in this fight? If not, then Mac better demand for it.

[W1LL]

hes had a tremendous career but to me it taints his legacy somewhat that hes chosen berto and mcgregor to limp over the line to get his 50-0. Its a phoney 50 really. if hes willing to fight, he should be willing to fight someone good, thats the way i see it. it would have put the cherry on top of his career if at the age of 40 he got his 50 by beating keith thurman. Hes got enough money as it is, he'd have got paid a **** load anyway to fight thurman as he would against any legit contender, hes chosen money over legacy.

Agreed. I like Floyd as a boxer, I can appreciate his ability. Personally though I will always look back and think, "I wish he'd took certain fights at certain times." I do believe he cherry-picked in that sense. The list includes:

2007/08 Antonio Margarito
2008 Miguel Cotto, still undefeated
2012 Manny Pacquiao on a 7-year win streak
2011/14 Sergio Martinez

[Death_Adder]

would fighting mcgregor be the biggest cherry pick of all time?

Yes. This is worse than Pac/Horn, Garcia/Salka and whatever other cherry pick match-up there has been out there.

This is like that movie "Great White Hype" where they couldn't find another challenger for the champ so they make one up, they get a white dude with zero pro-boxing experience, build him up to be this punching power monster (because you know in boxing all you need is punching power), sell the fight to the casuals that it'll be competitive, and make a shit ton of money. The only difference here is that McGregor is already Irish and they don't have to pretend.

[GhostofDempsey]

The 50th win has no significance whatsoever. As someone who has an account on this board I shouldn't have to explain that. Since when does any real boxing fan look at 50-0 as some kind of meaningful record?

The money is there because, regardless of your personal opinion, Floyd draws people.

NSAC is sanctioning this because they want in on the money this crap is going to generate. Did you think they were going to say No and let another town reap the benefit?

Fighters always criticize other fighters opposition. To somehow pretend this is just Floyd makes absolutely no sense.

Floyd went from not being able to draw crowds and get fights to then getting those fights once he showed he could draw crowds. He worked his way up to being the top draw. He won the big fights. He is now monetizing his success same as the other big PPV stars before him.

How can you find fault with that?

Because I'm looking at this fight from the perspective of a real boxing fan, not a casual. For casual fans of both boxing and MMA this fight is compelling. For real fans of either sport it is garbage and should not be considered a sanctioned fight, period.

If you think 50 wins is not relevant to the sport then why so many articles that point to 50-0? Any time Mayweather farts one of his fanboys yells 49-0 as if an undefeated record and surpassing Marciano is a measure of greatness. It's all about how you get there, and if you get there beating mostly B-rate fighters, or fighters past their prime, it's all just an illusion of greatness. This one last cherry pick is the greatest illusion of all, it carries the mythical 50-0 marker for undefeated greatness.

If he wants to fight for big money, then make it an exhibition, not a sanctioned 50th fight. Even then, I'm not fooling myself though, if Floyd doesn't fight Conor for his 50th he would find some other sure thing...rematch Berto, move up Broner, pull Guerrero off the shelf, maybe dust off Malignaggi's trunks for one more go. He made a career of it, why stop now?

[Michael1437]

I think it makes him the biggest money chaser ever.

[MrRolltide91]

Bro you are wrong. Obviously Floyd VS any welterweight in the top 5 would be a better fight. In terms of money McGregor is the best fight tho.

NSB is not at all a reflection of What the public wants. Canelo-Chavez was a joke fight and it sold 1 million PPV's. No one on NSB wanted Canelo to fight Jr. over any top guy at 154 or 160. Only a small percentage of PPV buyers are hardcore fans. A reflection of that was the Kov-Ward PPV Numbers. A top fight between two undefeated P4P fighters. Sold like 100k..

Even non fight fans are asking me about the McGregor fight. These people know nothing about boxing or UFC lol

Are they watching the fight?

[GGG Gloveking]

Yes. This is worse than Pac/Horn, Garcia/Salka and whatever other cherry pick match-up there has been out there.

This is like that movie "Great White Hype" where they couldn't find another challenger for the champ so they make one up, they get a white dude with zero pro-boxing experience, build him up to be this punching power monster (because you know in boxing all you need is punching power), sell the fight to the casuals that it'll be competitive, and make a shit ton of money. The only difference here is that McGregor is already Irish and they don't have to pretend.

The conspiracy theorist in me has to wonder if this whole thing hasn't been a big snow job from Dana White and possibly Floyd for years now. Took a page from Vince McMahon playbook and made this hype job white boy out to be a killer. Diaz threw a bit of a monkeywrench in there but they worked that out.

"Look Floyd, we can make a ton of money together. Just look how you and Manny screwed them over good. We'll prop up this red headed Irishman to be some badass, and let you work him over for a good payday. It'll just take a couple years to hype it up good"