Are you going to pay for Mayweather Vs McGregor?

[Kuyukut]

i'd stream it if somebody is willing to pay me.

[big_james10]

I have no issue going on record saying I'm going to stream this comedy, but how many are actually paying for it?

In all honesty I don't know anything about Floyd's alleged financial issues, but it seems this is just a cash grab to rinse the supporters who have already given him a good life.

I just don't see the monetary value for a fight with a "49-0 Vs 0-0" bottom line. But that's just me!

If you are buying this fight, what are your reasons? please be honest

Ninety percent of the people who claim they won't pay for it are lying. I wasn't planning on buying it, but now I am reconsidering. This fight will likely outsell Mayweather/Pacquaio. I doubt that Alvarez/Golovkin will break the one million PPV mark. Oscar De La Hoya will claim it sold 1.7 million, but will refuse to allow HBO to realease the numbers.

[big_james10]

Hell no. Most likely going to a buddies place that is buying it. But me personally, not paying for a fight that won't be competitive, whatsoever. Honestly wouldn't even care if I missed it, and caught the replay a week later or something.

You won't pay for it yourself, but you will sponge off a friend who is paying for it. That says a lot about your character.

[Fay]

Yes fight party

[danceswithfire]

Ninety percent of the people who claim they won't pay for it are lying. I wasn't planning on buying it, but now I am reconsidering. This fight will likely outsell Mayweather/Pacquaio. I doubt that Alvarez/Golovkin will break the one million PPV mark. Oscar De La Hoya will claim it sold 1.7 million, but will refuse to allow HBO to realease the numbers.

where did you come up with that 90% and how do you know they are lying? you have a crystal ball?

you do know this is garbage right?..or NOT

[big_james10]

people are coming over about 8 friends there paying for it with their money not me. then 3 weeks later I got more people coming over for canelo ggg and ill pay while they supply the beer and booze

When your friends come over for Canelo/Golovkin, make sure you drink $80 worth of beer and booze to make up for the cost of the PPV.

[big_james10]

You know, I thought about this. Not only will I not pay for it, I won't even watch it. Yes, I'm a Floyd fan AND a McGregor fan at least at the basic level. But here's the problem with this fight. It's a lose-lose all around; there's no upside whatsoever.

1. If Mayweather goes the distance with McGregor and beats him, people will accuse Floyd of carrying Conor and purposely not showing up.
2. If McGregor gets a decision over 12 people will blame Floyd's age.
3. If Mayweather knocks McGregor out people will say, "well of course, he's an MMA fighter, boxing is a different sport, he's never had a fight/Conor has a glass jaw"
4. If McGregor knocks out Mayweather people will say "well of course, we told you Floyd is too small and Conor's too big"
5. If it goes to a draw or a no contest, people will accuse either judges or Floyd of rigging the fight to trigger fans into demanding a rematch (despite no rematch clause) to get paid more money
6. If the ref stops McGregor people will whine about early stoppage and not letting Conor get a chance to recover, or worse, unpunished fouls from Floyd
7. If the ref stops Floyd they'll accuse Floyd of throwing the fight to get a rematch and get paid more money
8. If McGregor quits including his corner stopping it or staying down after a KD ala Victor Ortiz, they'll accuse Conor of essentially getting paid to throw the fight ala Charles Martin (the most likely scenario and my prediction)

Floyd won't get credit for winning even if he does show up in Gatti form. McGregor might or might not get credit for winning. Neither will come out superior all said and done. Which is why I felt Conor should have faced someone like Chris Algieri first to help sell the story.

There's simply no upside. There will be some sort of excuse or complaint no matter WHO wins or how they win.

You could have written this same post about Mayweather/Pacquaio, Mayweather/Alvarez, Mayweather/De La Hoya, Mayweather/Cotto or Mayweather/Mosley. Yet, those were five of the top ten PPV selling events in history.

This fight will be no different in terms of criticism, but it will still sell more than Alvarez/Golovkin.

[Combat Talk Radio]

You could have written this same post about Mayweather/Pacquaio

Negative. Had Floyd put Manny to sleep the worst that would have happened is a select few people blaming Manny's age and Marquez's KO earlier. Had Manny at least even knocked Floyd down, there'd have been NO excuses. Both were absolutely possible options despite probability.

Mayweather/Alvarez

The only thing not in Canelo's favor was experience fighting champions. Other than that the threat was at least there. It wasn't until round 6 that people saw Floyd was just adjusting better to Canelo and in hindsight it looked like a joke of a fight, but at the time, it was as 50/50 as you got against Floyd at the time.

Mayweather/De La Hoya

While De La Hoya was on the tail end of his career he was still stylistically presented as a threat to Floyd, which is why the fight did so much money. De La Hoya had faced MANY top 10 fighters before fighting Floyd and had decades of experience beating them. In fact, Floyd didn't look that great until round 7.

Mayweather/Cotto

Cotto's power and dominant defeats of prior opponents made him a credible threat. There would have been ZERO excuses either way. Even now nobody thinks Floyd robbed Cotto or that Cotto was washed up or inexperienced. This is one of Floyd's signature wins of the "Money" era.

Mayweather/Mosley

Like De La Hoya, Mosley might have been over the hill a bit but was a top tier contender with a storied fight history against some of the best to ever do it. If anyone was to have a chance against Floyd it was this man.


Again, you're naming guys that all had a legit shot at beating Floyd - some a higher percentage probability than others -
AND where there were no excuses after the fight except MayPac, and the excuses were all Pacquiao fans who got lied to by their hero. But there was no reason to expect excuses, since even Freddie Roach himself said there shouldn't have been any.





With MayGregor every outcome is subject to excuses simply because McGregor doesn't belong in that ring with Floyd.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Is that where ODLH fought Shaq?

Nope. It's where Arturo Gatti beat the snot out of a helpless white boy.

http://www.spike.com/video-clips/3npe3q/pros-vs-joes-

For me personally I'd just feel like less of a boxing fan not watching ANY major event in this sport involving a guy like Floyd Mayweather.

And again, I'll see it - LONG AFTER it's a thing, LONG AFTER they're done talking about it, LONG AFTER the excuses (which probably won't ever stop).

[rickJen]

You gotta be an idiot to pay for a circus fight which you can watch
a week or days later for free. Why do I have to see it live?
And I don't need to see details, the highligths is all I need.
I'd rather forget about it as quick as possible.
Then focus on current figthers.
Looking forward to the biggest fight of the year:
Golovkin vs Alvares fight.