Comments Thread For: Conor McGregor Announces His Retirement

[-Kev-]

I don’t blame him. He has a lot of money. Could go on to be in movies, WWE, and even have one last big PPV fight against Pacquiao.

[Damn Wicked]

Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you in the @ss.

[Snoop Frog]

I wonder if the distractions of all the legal stuff influenced him. I can see him unretiring again when a big enough paycheck is offered.

[Boxing lives]

I fail to comprehend Americans insatiable need and praise for sh..iii... tt... talkers... idiotic mentality that praises smack talk more than the actual substance of skills... example.... floyd Mayweather... praised and valued like a king.... vs Guillermo rigeandoux who had 2 times more quality considered boring.... I know people will discredit based on the Loma fight... anyway.... oh pitiful America....

Rigo was a chinless little quitter that didn’t have mayweathers quality or heart. If mayweather took a shot he didn’t drop like rigo did against little guys. Rigo was a little man. Mayweather would beat his ass in an exhibition and make his ass quit in one round tenshin style. Rigo was worth watching but never went undefeated fighting the quality of fighters mayweather fought. He doesn’t even hold a candle or even come anywhere near Floyd’s accomplishments. Chocolatito was another overhyped little muff that also could get his ass knocked out in an exhibition by mighty mayweather!!

[OldTerry]

Idk about this exactly anyway. One could argue that MMA is a modification to boxing using this theory. But boxing still exists.

Granted I do expect new combat sports to be birthed from trying to top MMA or other fighting styles & I think we can already see things like this existing. There are those sword fighting in a cage guys. There is that gang fight MMA league that I believe has 3 vs 3 or 5 vs 5 man fights. Even BKB was a hybrid combat sport & I'm sure there are others. But I think the base of MMA stays the same not unlike the base of Boxing has if we could somehow view it 100 years in the future.

One thing I do suspect is sports, specifically dangerous sports like the NFL, Boxing & MMA among other higher risk sports, will be taking place in a VR environment at some future date when the technology is viable to replicate if not enhance the competive experience. I've theorized on this numerous times in the past cuz I think VR tech is gonna vastly change our world in many ways not just with sports but I think you could push all fighting sports up a notch by having guys fighting to the death in the VR world thus it'd be more exciting without the tragedy of true death. Plus unlike in real combat sports where top guys fight 2-3 times a year you could have VR fighters who are only having a avatar of them being harmed could fight multiple times in a night.

With the video game culture ingrained in the younger generations I think this is a fairly obvious path to take. Along with the fact in our PC wear a helmet culture athletes being seriously injured or dying isn't going to be an acceptable thing forever. VR sports will instantly end deaths, severe injuries & even punch drunkness in boxing.

/my scifi future of boxing, MMA & sports in general speculation lol

Appreciate your insight into the potential (and probable) impact to combat and sports competition in general by virtual reality, I had not thought of that. Personally I would not watch anything in VR where someone died as it would be too real. However, think about all the fantasy matchups between boxers of different eras that could happen. No real outcomes of course but if the creators are serious enough we would probably have very close approximations of real results.

[Smash]

looks like he didnt want to try to beat a few contenders to get a shot again or most likely doesnt have it anymore, drink and drugs kinda do that to people hehe

[Marvlus Marv]

Consider this. Maybe they'll square up...in WWE.

To my shame, I've learned that I'll watch absolutely anything even remotely fight related and Paulie vs Conor in WWE sounds better than anything currently on the TV. Just tell me when.

[BillyBoxing]

His punching power, with boxing gloves on, made Paul Spadafora look like Mike Tyson. He may have won an
"Intercontinental Interim Gold Presumably of Interest" belt from one group or another, but no one would have cared.

His punching power with gloves would be pretty much different had he trained in boxing for the last 20 years instead of MMA, grappling, kicking ect...

That is pretty much obvious.

He did well with Floyd when you think about his his 0-0 record, he grabbed some rounds which is ridiculous. And I believe he would play with Floyd in the octagon

[MexicanStyle#1]

I'll give you more examples of sh...iii...tt...talkers:
Tyson Fury
MacGregor
Tony Bellew
BJ Saunders
Derick Chisora

Or wait; none of the above are Americans. And Bellew and Saunders rarely if ever fought in the US.

Were they made crazy millionaires? No... now if they were American... they would have been praised and made PPV stars in a second.... but of course when a comment strikes a nerve all sense of coherent reality goes out the window and defense mechanism kicks into ultimate mode

[Eff Pandas]

Appreciate your insight into the potential (and probable) impact to combat and sports competition in general by virtual reality, I had not thought of that. Personally I would not watch anything in VR where someone died as it would be too real. However, think about all the fantasy matchups between boxers of different eras that could happen. No real outcomes of course but if the creators are serious enough we would probably have very close approximations of real results.

Yea no doubt. Its kind of such a weird idea thats just not that close to being real yet that its hard to pinpoint all that could be done with this technology incorporated into sports & boxing specifically, but yea maybe fantasy fights is one of them if someone is saving some great fighters of the past DNA or something along those lines. Things are gonna get weird thats for sure.

And as to the dying angle I myself even see that as kinda extreme. But I feel like with the graphic & very real looking violence in so many video games people play today that 50 years from now when maybe what I'm theorizing about is real people are going to be watching these events like they watch video games now & they'll better be able to disassociate the fighter avatar which might be killed in the VR world to the fighter who'll be safe in a way no previous fighter was. So it'll be like watching your friend "die" in Grand Theft Auto more than it'll be like one of the tragedies we've all seen far too many of as boxing fans.