Pacquiao
Maidana
Canelo
Cotto
Mosley
Marquez
Hatton
De La Hoya
Judah
Gatti
...but yeah, easy path and such a shame he didn't fight Porter at 38 years old.
Dude STFU.
Making out he's Sven Ottke or something when pretty much his whole resume north of 135 is HOF fighters.
We can allow the McGregor fight, as a one-off, given he was already a retired fighter.
Pacquiao - Fake retired to avoid Pac in his prime, and cried PEDs.
Maidana -Decent wins, but hardly a TBE qualifier. Lol
Canelo. Good win
Cotto - Fake retired to avoid a prime cotto.
Mosley - Fake retired to avoid a prime Mosley.
Marquez - lol way way too small.
Hatton - drug Hatton up to 147 and had the ref in his pocket.
De La Hoya - a way past his prime del a hoya almost beat him, and the ONLY reason he took the risk was because it was too much money to pass up. Damn your blind. Lol
Judah - Judah was past it too, but a decent win.
Gatti - Lol. True warrior, but Gatti had B- level skills and speed at best.
The Gatti fight was the start of his cherry picking btw. And the LWW and WW divisions were on fire at the time, and Gatti was the easiest of the belt holders.
This was just off the top of my head, and a significant percentage of boxing fans have the same opinion that I do.
He used superb boxing skills and business accumn, to exploit the loopholes in boxing to keep that fake "0".
If all the greats of the past followed his BS blueprint, this sport would have never gotten as big as it got.
If Ali followed frauds bluprint, we probably would have been lucky to see him fight Frazier once, let alone 3 times.
Don't be upset at me, because you are one of the fans too ****** to see frauds BS.
[/QUOTE]we can allow the McGregor fight, as a one-off, given he was already a retired fighter.[/QUOTE]
That would be true if he didn't constantly run his mouth about being TBE.
Street code, warrior code, or whatever you want to call it, states that if your going to run your mouth, BACK IT TF UP!
Floyd could have stopped Conor in any round Floyd wanted
Floyd carried Conor for 10 rounds in a boxing exhibition. Conor is no boxr and Floyd carried Conor the whole ten rounds. The Referee saved Conor from the humiliation of a Knock out. It was a fake fight for big money. Conor is about as much a pure boxer as hip hop artist are entertainers.
Floyd and Conor suckered all the fans who bought tickets and the PPV
Sure I wanted the white Conor to beat the felon ****** obnoxious Floyd. But call it correctly Conor is no fricking boxer and looked ****** and clumsy in the ring with the worlds best boxer Floyd. It was a fake fight in which Floyd carried wee man Conor for all ten rounds resulting in a record payday for both men. Floyd was so superior to Conor it is not even comparable. White is right but Floyd is better. Fact.
A greatly diminished Floyd Mayweather comes out of a 2-year retirement to walk down and stop a a prime-aged opponent that is one or two weight classes above Floyd's natural size - a taller opponent with longer reach. Floyd's hand speed has slowed down a lot, and he's become more and more flat footed with each fight. So he literally just walked straight ahead and broke McGregor down with body shots until he was tired enough that he could just bomb him out. Floyd's punch output has also dropped significantly in the last five years or so. He has to conserve energy. A younger fighter could throw against McGregor more often and basically land at will. It was a serious mismatch. That version of Floyd would lose to a lot of fighters that don't have advantages in size, weight, reach, age. McGregor did not do well. It's not his sport. Time to go back to MMA. If he was actually in with a prime opponent in his own weight class, he gets wrecked. McGregor has zero punching power, so he had nothing to make Floyd respect him and stop walking him down. McGregor has basically no defense other than relying on his reflexes to slip the odd shot. He is fairly quick in terms of movement, so he can time some counters. Even though Floyd wasn't cutting off the ring, and basically following him, McGregor couldn't get out of the way often enough, because he doesn't understand movement in terms of boxing. Overall, he'd be a C-class boxer. There's nothing wrong with that. It isn't his sport. Time to move on.
Last edited by Red_Menace; 08-28-2017, 07:47 AM.
Reason: floyd's age, endurance
Though Mayweather could do big business with almost anybody, there wasn't another combat sports athlete on the planet he could have done more business with than McGregor. As Showtime executive Stephen Espinoza pointed out during the press tour, “this fight happened because of the fans.” It's possible that neither man was totally serious about making the fight happen, but then the articles, the segments and the tweets never stopped, and the tenor of many of them was that McGregor had a chance...
"Volume-wise, pre-fight, it's I would say even 100 times bigger than any fight we've ever seen before, Bovada sportsbook manager Kevin Bradley told VICE Sports last week. "If McGregor wins, we're talking a massive, massive loss for us."
Still confused Conor said he was old slow no power who was that then walking him down 4 th round on slowly breaking him down then had him staggering defenseless like it was pub night?
Though Mayweather could do big business with almost anybody, there wasn't another combat sports athlete on the planet he could have done more business with than McGregor. As Showtime executive Stephen Espinoza pointed out during the press tour, “this fight happened because of the fans.” It's possible that neither man was totally serious about making the fight happen, but then the articles, the segments and the tweets never stopped, and the tenor of many of them was that McGregor had a chance...
"Volume-wise, pre-fight, it's I would say even 100 times bigger than any fight we've ever seen before, Bovada sportsbook manager Kevin Bradley told VICE Sports last week. "If McGregor wins, we're talking a massive, massive loss for us."
The question we should ask is "who are these fans, and why did so many expect a novice boxer to beat a master (even at age 40) ring technician?"
Some MMA fans thought Conor would win, but even most MMA fans knew it was a very long shot. It wasn't the inevitable result that made this fight so appealing, it was the novelty of it all. And a big part of that was the massive personalities of the fighters. It was a fun ride and the fight itself proved to be pretty entertaining. This wasn't a classic high skill match up, it was a novelty and because Mayweather was so diminished it turned into a fun fight to watch.
Boxing came out looking good. MMA came out looking OK too. It was a wild ride, not every fight has to be Aaron Pryor vs Alexis Arguallo, sometimes lower skilled matches can be just as riveting.
He got rope a doped but didn't know because Floyd had the high guard for 3 letting him peck away because besides 1 left uppercut he was pecking like a chicken with mittens zero power fabled left? Ha ha lol
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