OFFICIAL BOXING DISCUSSION

[Sabre]

For what its worth I saw the replay and thought it was an ok fight, certainly no classic. Floyd owned him from round 2 onwards allowing him to throw some very weak punches before tagging him with enough to claim 8 rounds in a row before his corner told him to go for it. When Floyd put his foot down, Connor had nothing.

Reminded me a bit of that film the great white hype. When the white guy layed a couple on the black guy he said "are you trying to embarrass me on tv?" before going on to dominate him.

Anyway, glad this farce is over…the con job has been completed and everyone involved made out like bandits. Good for them.

Thing is it might be a bit of a farce but without the big overhyped fights boxing would be dead.
The sport relies on the casual observer that doesnt take an interest otherwise lashing out for PPV.

 

[stryker]

Haven't watched boxing in a long time, but was disappointed that the fight got stopped when it did. is this normal now?

Fights always get stopped when one fighter ceases protecting themselves. Conner was gone and would have served only as a punching bag for the final rounds.

 

[stryker]

It was a farce but McGregor did a lot better than what I thought he would.

I keep hearing this. I thought he started ok but if you look at the scorecards, he was miles behind - 2 of the judges had him at least 7 points in deficit. He was heading towards a double digit smackdown. Thats a dominant loss.

 

[earl]

It was a farce but McGregor did a lot better than what I thought he would.

I keep hearing this. I thought he started ok but if you look at the scorecards, he was miles behind - 2 of the judges had him at least 7 points in deficit. He was heading towards a double digit smackdown. Thats a dominant loss.

It was a dominant loss but that was what I expected. I haven't heard a single fan that actually has an idea about boxing and mma who thought that McGregor had a chance.

I heard Shane Mosley stating it was like a long distance runner versus a sprinter. There are similarities in that they both run but they can't compete in the others sport. If it was an MMA fight I think Floyd would have been destroyed really quickly.

I honestly think it was an exhibition match with a big payday to both fighters.

 

[Demps]

Good fight.
#money team

 

[stryker]

Someone during the week described it as the Olympic table tennis champion taking on Federer in the US Open final. Quite apt.

It was a dumb idea that should never have been sanctioned. It wasnt fair to the boxers in that division nor fighters in Conners UFC divisions. Big money fights are ruining both sports.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Didn't even watch it. Glad it's over so the Irishman can go back to flogging people in MMA and Mayweather can go back to flogging his missus.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Only saw the highlights but it looked like a sham. Connor threw lots early as expected, when Floyd wanted a break he just turned his back and Connor didn't know where he was allowed to hit him.
If Floyd had a bit of respect for boxing's history he would have put the 50-0 record on the line against a legitimate boxer who was going to make him earn the title of "50-0", not against an easy kill who was from a foreign discipline to boxing.
Hopefully GGG continues on to surpass Mayweathers record.
Have to laugh just now Foxsports "experts" are dissecting the fight…......Hooper and Buzz Rothfield! The closest Buzz has been to being punch-drunk is when he raided the bargain bin at the local. Quality all round.

 

[CocaCola]

It was a farce but McGregor did a lot better than what I thought he would.

I keep hearing this. I thought he started ok but if you look at the scorecards, he was miles behind - 2 of the judges had him at least 7 points in deficit. He was heading towards a double digit smackdown. Thats a dominant loss.

It's a dominant loss if you go by the official scorecards, but the actual fight was closer than what the judges scored it. Conor won the first 3 rounds without a doubt, 4th & 8th could have went either way.
I watched rounds 1-4, 8 & 10 again just to remove any bias. I would have gave Conor 4 rounds leading into the 10th, so 5-4 to Floyd prior to the stoppage in the 10th.

For the judges to have given Conor only 1 round prior to the stoppage just goes to show how corrupt that industry is, has been for decades.

I have no issue with the stoppage, Mayweather was dominating the latter rounds and Conor was gassed and couldn't defend himself.

Wasn't as 1 sided as those scorecards suggested though. I enjoyed the fight, Conor done well against a undefeated World champ.


 

[stryker]

Only saw the highlights but it looked like a sham. Connor threw lots early as expected, when Floyd wanted a break he just turned his back and Connor didn't know where he was allowed to hit him.
If Floyd had a bit of respect for boxing's history he would have put the 50-0 record on the line against a legitimate boxer who was going to make him earn the title of "50-0", not against an easy kill who was from a foreign discipline to boxing.
Hopefully GGG continues on to surpass Mayweathers record.
Have to laugh just now Foxsports "experts" are dissecting the fight…......Hooper and Buzz Rothfield! The closest Buzz has been to being punch-drunk is when he raided the bargain bin at the local. Quality all round.

Floyd was retired. He was lured out by $$$….100's of millions of them!
It wasnt to increase his record.

 

[stryker]

It was a farce but McGregor did a lot better than what I thought he would.

I keep hearing this. I thought he started ok but if you look at the scorecards, he was miles behind - 2 of the judges had him at least 7 points in deficit. He was heading towards a double digit smackdown. Thats a dominant loss.

It's a dominant loss if you go by the official scorecards, but the actual fight was closer than what the judges scored it. Conor won the first 3 rounds without a doubt, 4th & 8th could have went either way.
I watched rounds 1-4, 8 & 10 again just to remove any bias. I would have gave Conor 4 rounds leading into the 10th, so 5-4 to Floyd prior to the stoppage in the 10th.

For the judges to have given Conor only 1 round prior to the stoppage just goes to show how corrupt that industry is, has been for decades.

I have no issue with the stoppage, Mayweather was dominating the latter rounds and Conor was gassed and couldn't defend himself.

Wasn't as 1 sided as those scorecards suggested though. I enjoyed the fight, Conor done well against a undefeated World champ.


Im sorry but your whole speech makes no sense. Of course we take the judges scores into account. They are professional judges and i mostly agree with them. Conner threw lots of non scoring punches early on. Floyd easily blocked the vast majority that were on target. Id probably give him rounds 1 and 2 but thats it. Mayweather was in control and never once hurt. He tagged him at will and seemed to allow that fight to drag on until he put it to bed. The technical skill level was poles apart. MMA fighters have akward stances and Floyd easily got through Conners. He also continually cut the ring off and put himself into position to be the aggressor when required and to counter when open. To put it bluntly, Floyd scored points whenever he wanted to.

Macgregor was hillarious with his attitude post fight claiming he wasnt rocked or wobbled and the fight was stopped short. He was very close to a proper KO and possible humiliation. I thought on a technical level it was extremely one sided and a failed experiment for the UFC. Sure loads of money was made but Conner was never in it. The two sports are far too different to compare in this way and even though im sure spin doctors are working on presenting a favourable light on MacGregor's efforts, he was thoroughly out witted, out thought, out boxed and under prepared to stand toe to toe with the calibre of boxer he took on today.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

This is the most pointless, stupid fight of all time. As a true combat sports fan for decades now it upsets me. These two are the most dislikeable pieces of trash in their respective sports. The garbage they are going on with during the promotional "world tour" is embarrassing and is pandering to the lowest creatures in society. It is a total ripoff of WWE which in itself was created to appease those with double digit IQ's.

Could not care less about the result as it means and proves nothing. Total con with a script already written and learnt by both men. Dont spend money on this crap, you are feeding the beast which is destroying combat sport.

Sorry to rain on your parade but the club had an excellent attendance for the show, I played chess in another room during the bout.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Someone during the week described it as the Olympic table tennis champion taking on Federer in the US Open final. Quite apt.

It was a dumb idea that should never have been sanctioned. It wasnt fair to the boxers in that division nor fighters in Conners UFC divisions. Big money fights are ruining both sports.

I was at the 2000 Olympics Table Tennis and they were much more skillful and faster than Federer. It is relevant I know.

 

[stryker]

Someone during the week described it as the Olympic table tennis champion taking on Federer in the US Open final. Quite apt.

It was a dumb idea that should never have been sanctioned. It wasnt fair to the boxers in that division nor fighters in Conners UFC divisions. Big money fights are ruining both sports.

I was at the 2000 Olympics Table Tennis and they were much more skillful and faster than Federer. It is relevant I know.

Yeah at ping pong. Stick a tennis racquet in their hands and send them onto center court at Arthur Ashe and we'll see how they go. Thats the point.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Someone during the week described it as the Olympic table tennis champion taking on Federer in the US Open final. Quite apt.

It was a dumb idea that should never have been sanctioned. It wasnt fair to the boxers in that division nor fighters in Conners UFC divisions. Big money fights are ruining both sports.

I was at the 2000 Olympics Table Tennis and they were much more skillful and faster than Federer. It is relevant I know.

Yeah at ping pong. Stick a tennis racquet in their hands and send them onto center court at Arthur Ashe and we'll see how they go. Thats the point.

Just as there are ex-ping pong players who become tennis champs there is also the reverse and they may keep their tennis game up as well. The tennis players are sabotaged in table tennis by their stiff elbow whereas table tennis players don't have any drawbacks in tennis that I am aware of. I know state level champs in both sports who regularly line up against each other. The TT champ can hold his own in tennis but not the reverse for the tennis players in TT. The TT serves just completely bedazzles the tennis champs. When the tennis player cops a TT serve with such severe back spin that the ball rolls back over the net of it's own accord they give up.

 

[Byron_Bay_Fan]

Nothing like a serious philosophical argument this time of night whilst the missus is left in limbo

 

[cktiger]

Someone during the week described it as the Olympic table tennis champion taking on Federer in the US Open final. Quite apt.

It was a dumb idea that should never have been sanctioned. It wasnt fair to the boxers in that division nor fighters in Conners UFC divisions. Big money fights are ruining both sports.

I was at the 2000 Olympics Table Tennis and they were much more skillful and faster than Federer. It is relevant I know.

Yeah at ping pong. Stick a tennis racquet in their hands and send them onto center court at Arthur Ashe and we'll see how they go. Thats the point.

Just as there are ex-ping pong players who become tennis champs there is also the reverse and they may keep their tennis game up as well. The tennis players are sabotaged in table tennis by their stiff elbow whereas table tennis players don't have any drawbacks in tennis that I am aware of. I know state level champs in both sports who regularly line up against each other. The TT champ can hold his own in tennis but not the reverse for the tennis players in TT. The TT serves just completely bedazzles the tennis champs. When the tennis player cops a TT serve with such severe back spin that the ball rolls back over the net of it's own accord they give up.

Seriously mate … time for bed.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Only saw the highlights but it looked like a sham. Connor threw lots early as expected, when Floyd wanted a break he just turned his back and Connor didn't know where he was allowed to hit him.
If Floyd had a bit of respect for boxing's history he would have put the 50-0 record on the line against a legitimate boxer who was going to make him earn the title of "50-0", not against an easy kill who was from a foreign discipline to boxing.
Hopefully GGG continues on to surpass Mayweathers record.
Have to laugh just now Foxsports "experts" are dissecting the fight…......Hooper and Buzz Rothfield! The closest Buzz has been to being punch-drunk is when he raided the bargain bin at the local. Quality all round.

Floyd was retired. He was lured out by $$$….100's of millions of them!
It wasnt to increase his record.

I'm sure the 50-0 record came into his mind when he decided to take this fight on. Its not like he was destitute before this fight and needed the payday either really. Ego's love records, whatever they are.

 

[upthetigers]

Someone during the week described it as the Olympic table tennis champion taking on Federer in the US Open final. Quite apt.

It was a dumb idea that should never have been sanctioned. It wasnt fair to the boxers in that division nor fighters in Conners UFC divisions. Big money fights are ruining both sports.

I was at the 2000 Olympics Table Tennis and they were much more skillful and faster than Federer. It is relevant I know.

Yeah at ping pong. Stick a tennis racquet in their hands and send them onto center court at Arthur Ashe and we'll see how they go. Thats the point.

Just as there are ex-ping pong players who become tennis champs there is also the reverse and they may keep their tennis game up as well. The tennis players are sabotaged in table tennis by their stiff elbow whereas table tennis players don't have any drawbacks in tennis that I am aware of. I know state level champs in both sports who regularly line up against each other. The TT champ can hold his own in tennis but not the reverse for the tennis players in TT. The TT serves just completely bedazzles the tennis champs. When the tennis player cops a TT serve with such severe back spin that the ball rolls back over the net of it's own accord they give up.

Just because table tennis players have good hand eye coordination doesn't mean they would excel at tennis, they are two completely different games. Table tennis players would have huge weaknesses in their game which the likes of Federer would expose with his eyes closed. The skill gap between table tennis and tennis would be bigger than MMA and boxing. And this is not even taking into account that tennis is an endurance game. You have to be in much better shape to excel at tennis.

 

[sheer64]

I was at the 2000 Olympics Table Tennis and they were much more skillful and faster than Federer. It is relevant I know.

Yeah at ping pong. Stick a tennis racquet in their hands and send them onto center court at Arthur Ashe and we'll see how they go. Thats the point.

Just as there are ex-ping pong players who become tennis champs there is also the reverse and they may keep their tennis game up as well. The tennis players are sabotaged in table tennis by their stiff elbow whereas table tennis players don't have any drawbacks in tennis that I am aware of. I know state level champs in both sports who regularly line up against each other. The TT champ can hold his own in tennis but not the reverse for the tennis players in TT. The TT serves just completely bedazzles the tennis champs. When the tennis player cops a TT serve with such severe back spin that the ball rolls back over the net of it's own accord they give up.

Just because table tennis players have good hand eye coordination doesn't mean they would excel at tennis, they are two completely different games. Table tennis players would have huge weaknesses in their game which the likes of Federer would expose with his eyes closed. The skill gap between table tennis and tennis would be bigger than MMA and boxing. And this is not even taking into account that tennis is an endurance game. You have to be in much better shape to excel at tennis.

Federer would be shaking in his boots!