What's with the notion that we should root for Floyd just because he's a boxer?

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  • Metho_4u
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    #91
    Originally posted by original zero
    You should root for whoever you want to root for, but don't kid yourself, Floyd losing is disastrous for boxing. Millions of casual sports fans who normally watch very little fighting will be tuning in. In the minds of many of them, this fight will prove if boxing or UFC is superior. That's obviously illogical and makes no sense, but that's how people think. If Conor waltez into boxing and beats the #1 boxer in his pro debut, it makes boxing look like an absolute joke compared to MMA.




    What other welterweight would have gone undefeated against De La Hoya, Hatton, Marquez, Mosley, Ortiz, Cotto, Guerrero, Canelo, Maidana (twice) and Pacquiao in the 8 year span that he did?
    Manny couldn't lol

    It was the weight doe lol.

    Hype job is a good name though, what he should do however is point his finger at golovkin.

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    • BoxingIsGreat
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      #92
      Originally posted by bigdramashow
      it would mean he had amazing talent to crossover the sports. it wouldnt mean that boxing is somehow 'exposed' as a joke, its a sport that consists of top athletes just as every other sport. I couldnt care less if mayweather loses,it would make mcgregor a legend rather than destroy boxing. And the gloating from some UFC fans would be annoying, but the tears from mayweather fans would be something to behold lol
      A Floyd fan here, and I wouldn't care at all. It isn't good for boxing tho.

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      • Hype job
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        #93
        Originally posted by Metho_4u
        You're simply a sore loser, you can root for who you want, just like every single opponent that has come along would do this or do that...and? They can't ever do ****.

        Was it Manny he beat that made you hate him? DLH? Who?
        It was you.

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        • pasawayako
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          #94
          If floyd will not knock out gregor. MMA fans will laugh boxing. Simply Put a heavyweight boxer to a welterweight MMA fighter in a octagon and you will see how easy MMA fighter will annihilate a heavyweight boxer. That's what should floyd do to gregor.

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          • Blue54
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            #95
            Floyd is arguably top 10 top 20 of all time he the best we have seen in years, if he loses to a mma fighter this will be awful for Boxing. Casual wil go on for years about Mma as the superior sport.
            I dont like Floyd but i gotta root for my sport no matter who it is at the end of the day.

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            • dibzvincent143
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              #96
              TS is plain ******. Why the hell you want Mcgregor to win? Fans will then see mma as the better sport. Since mc is using it to hype the fight, that boxing is easy lol

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                #97
                Originally posted by pasawayako
                If floyd will not knock out gregor. MMA fans will laugh boxing. Simply Put a heavyweight boxer to a welterweight MMA fighter in a octagon and you will see how easy MMA fighter will annihilate a heavyweight boxer. That's what should floyd do to gregor.
                What WW in mma going to annhilate Joshua? Lol
                Even in the octagon I'd still root for my sport. Yes prime pac, tyson would kill in that sport

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                • pasawayako
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                  #98
                  Originally posted by dibzvincent143
                  What WW in mma going to annhilate Joshua? Lol
                  Even in the octagon I'd still root for my sport. Yes prime pac, tyson would kill in that sport
                  Put him with gregor in a octagon he will choke joshua to death.

                  Any boxer when you put it in octagon will not survived a round. Same thing would happen to a mma fighter when put infront of a boxer.

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                  • Metho_4u
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                    #99
                    Originally posted by Hype Job
                    It was you.
                    Glad I could be of help then

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                    • original zero
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                      #100
                      Originally posted by _original_
                      Conor has people parroting that boxing is "half a fight" and isn't real fighting.
                      well, you can't really dispute that. boxing is the sport of punching each other, MMA is the sport of fighting each other. doesn't mean one is any more entertaining that the other, but calling boxing "half a fight" is being verrrry generous. it's more like 10% of a fight.

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