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OT : 100 Million $ Fight

The entire first is just a big money grabber. Both fighter aggreed to this fight for only 2 reasons. Money and because the fight means ****ing nothing for anyone who will lose. Also, Let's not kid ourself, Mayweather is the pussy and he will won this fight because it's an actual boxing match. McGregor must be hungry for money to accept this fight where he has no chance of winning this. If this was a MMA fight, McGregor would win this one but since we have to follow boxing rules, Mayweather will have another easy, lucrative fight.
 
McGregor is a smart business man, and he understands the entertainment part of the sport and plays it better than anybody else. He has the incredible ability of making people care for his fights even though he's not that great.
 
not quite the same

more like phelps you won the butterfly why not try the backstroke

Not at all. Both of those events are done in a pool, with the same water, same length, same lanes, same everything except the technique of swimming.

Boxing & MMA are fundamentally different in virtually every way. Different striking, different playing field, everything's different. The only thing they have in common is that they're fighting.

Another comparison would be taking the fastest wide receiver in the NFL and asking him to race Usain Bolt.
 
Think it would be worth seeing an event live?
UFC comes to edmonton in september.

Dépends who's on the card, but I would say probably not unless you want to "feel" the live experience. It's otherwise better just staying home or going to a bar.

If you do go, the Francis Ngannou - Junior dos Santos fight is going to be fireworks.
 
Not at all. Both of those events are done in a pool, with the same water, same length, same lanes, same everything except the technique of swimming.

Boxing & MMA are fundamentally different in virtually every way. Different striking, different playing field, everything's different. The only thing they have in common is that they're fighting.

Another comparison would be taking the fastest wide receiver in the NFL and asking him to race Usain Bolt.
Much closer than your comparison.

Most MMA guys practice multiple combat styles.

I've got Conor in 4.

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Much closer than your comparison.

Most MMA guys practice multiple combat styles.

I've got Conor in 4.

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Your comparison doesn't hold up because all high level swimmers compete in multiple styles.

Boxers who go try MMA (& vice versa) are ripped to pieces unless they get years upon years of training ahead of time, that training which will make them much less proficient in their original sport as they will neglect it. Phelps trains multiple types of swimming because they are very similar.

Boxing & MMA aren't similar at all.
 
Your comparison doesn't hold up because all high level swimmers compete in multiple styles.

Boxers who go try MMA (& vice versa) are ripped to pieces unless they get years upon years of training ahead of time, that training which will make them much less proficient in their original sport as they will neglect it. Phelps trains multiple types of swimming because they are very similar.

Boxing & MMA aren't similar at all.

sure

still much closer than basketball vs football :p
 
Dépends who's on the card, but I would say probably not unless you want to "feel" the live experience. It's otherwise better just staying home or going to a bar.

If you do go, the Francis Ngannou - Junior dos Santos fight is going to be fireworks.

Ya. I am guessing it will be like the outdoor games. Cool novelty but not much for actually watching the event.

I will see how much tickets are and decide based on that.
 
The entire first is just a big money grabber. Both fighter aggreed to this fight for only 2 reasons. Money and because the fight means ****ing nothing for anyone who will lose. Also, Let's not kid ourself, Mayweather is the pussy and he will won this fight because it's an actual boxing match. McGregor must be hungry for money to accept this fight where he has no chance of winning this. If this was a MMA fight, McGregor would win this one but since we have to follow boxing rules, Mayweather will have another easy, lucrative fight.

I could be wrong but CM may make more in this fight than what he could earn for the rest of his MMA career , how do you say no for 10-15 minutes of retirement money.

He will lose but FM rarely knocks anyone out anymore but CM is one tough SOB and his ability to take a beating is higher than Floyd.

If he can fight with good pose and guarding technique he could prolong the match .
 
Even tho I hate the idea of this fight. I'll give my two cents. From a guy who has trained multi disciplines. I honestly don't see any way CM wins unless he lands a lucky shot. Which is totally possible. But probably the biggest difference I have noticed between sparing with mma/boxing folk is the cardio. Boxers just seem like they can go on forever. CM is in great shape but it takes a long time to build up that style of cardio and learning how to not blow your steam in the first few rounds. I predict he will come out strong in the first two rounds. Then you will see him slow a bit and Floyd being able to start landing his counter punches pretty easy. But I will see on the highlights as I won't be purchasing this event for sure.
 
TSN showed both of them hitting the punching bag a couple of weeks back and it looked like one guy was a pro and the other had just started to box that week.

I think CM will do something goofy that will likely result in a DQ. I think he will be too wired not to get his legs involved when FM starts laying into him.

I know some hate the promotion going on but I laugh at it. CM is certainly gifted at that task and FM is just an A-Hole who deserves it.

I have absolutely zero intention on ordering the fight but then I'm the guy who spends nothing on Rogers to watch the same games they took away from me when they cut-off RDS. **** all these shams.
 
Even tho I hate the idea of this fight. I'll give my two cents. From a guy who has trained multi disciplines. I honestly don't see any way CM wins unless he lands a lucky shot. Which is totally possible. But probably the biggest difference I have noticed between sparing with mma/boxing folk is the cardio. Boxers just seem like they can go on forever. CM is in great shape but it takes a long time to build up that style of cardio and learning how to not blow your steam in the first few rounds. I predict he will come out strong in the first two rounds. Then you will see him slow a bit and Floyd being able to start landing his counter punches pretty easy. But I will see on the highlights as I won't be purchasing this event for sure.

Reason for that is there's a much bigger emphasis on strength in MMA than boxing.

There's also not enough time in a day to do everything.

Boxing has two weapons, a left hand & right hand and then you mix in cardio & strength conditioning.

MMA has hands, elbows, knees, feet, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, and then you also have to mix in strength & conditioning.

It's an incredibly difficult sport to get good at, much moreso than boxing.
 
Reason for that is there's a much bigger emphasis on strength in MMA than boxing.

There's also not enough time in a day to do everything.

Boxing has two weapons, a left hand & right hand and then you mix in cardio & strength conditioning.

MMA has hands, elbows, knees, feet, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, and then you also have to mix in strength & conditioning.

It's an incredibly difficult sport to get good at, much moreso than boxing.

Oh trust me I know how hard it is training for MMA. Lol
 
I remember going to Cage Aux Sports with a guy who was nagging me to watch the Mayweather-Pacquaio fight with him, and then he spent pretty much the whole fight staring at the ceiling because he found it more interesting. Guess he's not gonna call me about this one.
 
I could be wrong but CM may make more in this fight than what he could earn for the rest of his MMA career , how do you say no for 10-15 minutes of retirement money.

He will lose but FM rarely knocks anyone out anymore but CM is one tough SOB and his ability to take a beating is higher than Floyd.

If he can fight with good pose and guarding technique he could prolong the match .

That's hard to say, FM has never been knocked out. But he also pretty much never gets hit.
 
I think CM was super smart to take this fight. Nevermind the money. FM hasn't KO'd anyone since JFK was the President of the United States. CM may lose on points, but he also may win with a lucky shot. Even if CM loses a unianimous decision and goes the distance (Which I think is waht will happen). He wins.

Press conference will go like this...

CM: I went the distance in your arena, let's see if you can go the distance in mine.

FM: No chance.
 
The only way CM wins this fight is if the fix is in, and that might well be the case. Not much chance of a rematch if FM wins.

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