Official Conor McGregor thread (part 4) *Updated Warning in 1st Post Re:Boxing match

Axwell

Gintonious wrote: »

Here you go princess, its not even that long so you can pay attention to it.

Mod: Cut out the crap 'princess'

EagererBeaver

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Probably this SportsJoe article or tweet..........

https://www.sportsjoe.ie/boxing/mayweather-mcgregor-watch-ireland-uk-130248


https://twitter.com/DarrMurphy/status/885930079129415682

Would be amazed if anyone from Joe talked to Espinoza at all.

Axwell

Folks I have been lenient here the last week or two with people so that there's a bit of discussion and people get to voice their opinion no matter which side they are on as long as its sensible debate. But don't take that as freedom to just start saying whatever you want and acting the muppet. Keep it civil and use common sense, any long bans at this stage and you wont be back till after the fight.

Eyes Down Field

Watched back the Mayweather/Cotto fight. A complete master class of boxing from Floyd. Allot more offensive than I remembered it live. Cotto was one of the greatest, hard hitting boxer-punchers of his generation. The reining 154lb champion and coming off back of 3 straight TKO wins, most recently and notebly over Antonio Margarito...

He couldn't hit Floyd. It's incredible to watch. A word class boxer is unloading his best shots, a hard and as fast as he can and nothing lands.

Floyd will absolutely destroy McGregor next month. One, Maybe Two rounds. KO/TKO.

MisterAnarchy

I just got an email from Ticketmaster with a code and there are still tickets left so its not sold out
3500 usd for nosebleeds ffs.

D.Q

Lads does anyone know if the fight will be available to buy on the internet?

Will happily pay for an official stream, but don't have a sky box.

wonderfullife

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

I just got an email from Ticketmaster with a code and there are still tickets left so its not sold out
3500 usd for nosebleeds ffs.

Yeah was seeing that all the $500, $1500 and $2500 tickets are gone and the only ones left are $3500 - $10,000.

How many are left before venue sold out? You can check on the map if you're a #verifiedfan I think.

Lucas Hood

D.Q wrote: »

Lads does anyone know if the fight will be available to buy on the internet?

Will happily pay for an official stream, but don't have a sky box.

You should be able to.
Sky box office & itv box office have both been available to legally stream for the recent fights on there.

MMayweather

Surely the 3500 and 10000 tickets are aimed at celebrities?

Subcomandante Marcos

It's just aimed at people with more money than sense.

wonderfullife

MMayweather wrote: »

Surely the 3500 and 10000 tickets are aimed at celebrities?

True but after the backlash from the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight (where they only released 500 tickets to the public) it looks like they've released more this time around to the public.

The #verifiedfan restrictions are messing it up a little bit. People are selling the free code online for $50, $100, $200 to people looking to just buy tickets.

Anyway it'll sell-out not a bother.

Mellor

walshb wrote: »

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I wouldn't be so quick to label Conor "stronger".

It's a gray area anyway. Depends a lot on what the combatants are doing.

Technique/skill can always be part of one's strength.

Now, raw strength is a little different.....

walshb wrote: »

I'll wait until Aug 26 to claim that the non boxer out clinches or is the better clincher than the boxer in boxing clinching.....

The above would make sense if boxers were routinely clinching. But they aren't so...well you know where I'm going.

Effective clinching in boxing (at least for Mayweather stylistically) is flopping on your opponent and getting the ref to break it up. Floyd is very good at achieving that, so it's tactically effective from his point of view - of course having a ref aligned with that stylistic approach helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ6m-vmZzp0

If the ref approaches cliching as per the above. I'd expect Mayweather to be more effective. But not because he is "stronger in clinch", but simply because they aren't clinching.
If they were actually allowed to clinch more freely, then I fully expect the stronger clincher to have the upperhand. But I doubt that would ever happen in a boxing ring.

TL;DR Mayweather will probably be more effective in the "clinch", not because he's a stronger clincher, but simply because the ref won't allow strong clinching

wonderfullife

I was just thinking about this fight for a while.

Conor is going to beat Floyd.

Gamebred

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/889650214855901184

wonderfullife

1:43 Floyd's tactics for placing bets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TruXhuAO4IY

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/889629914214924290

HattrickNZ

Deleted User wrote: »

billybonkers wrote: »

No creative differences

https://twitter.com/PaulMalignaggi/status/889388788950081536

That tweet came after he says "I was not sparring because I was not picked to spar today."

He didn't say "I was not sparring today because I had to fly to New York". Just the way he worded it makes it sound like he was available and not picked. That's a little odd don't you think?

And shortly after the first spar he's taken to twitter to have an extended back and forth about the importance of hard sparring. I just think it's a bit coincidental. My guess is that he's come in and sparred hard and Kavanagh told him to wind it back a bit and they had an argument about the pros and cons of hard sparring.

Paulie was always planned to fly bak to NY and fly backck to Vegas. So don't think it is an issue.

Interesting q for jk tho re sparring hard v his upgrading the software and not damaging the hardware? Maybe boxing is different?

GerryDerpy

wonderfullife wrote: »

I was just thinking about this fight for a while.

Conor is going to beat Floyd.

I am moving that way.

dashoonage

wonderfullife wrote: »

I was just thinking about this fight for a while.

Conor is going to beat Floyd.

If he does I dont want to raise children in a world like this.

darced

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Django99

wonderfullife wrote: »

1:43 Floyd's tactics for placing bets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TruXhuAO4IY

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/889629914214924290

All the money so far has been on McGregor. In the last couple of days before the fight I predict an enormous shift in the odds, mega mega money will go on Mayweather from the pro sports bettors in the States which will see Mayweather jump back in , if I was to guess to around 1/10 or worse. Anyone who's looking to put a decent bet on McGregor should wait until just before the fight, when his price will be much bigger than the frankly awful 9/2 available now.

Frank Bullitt

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

What the hell are you on about

Little memory rejog for you: I laughed at the absurdity of some content of a video which was posted and you said that there was a good point made within other parts of it............... which I agreed with and so said 'Well, they should have just made a video on that then.'

What exactly is it about that which is confusing you?

Misunderstanding on my side, I apologize.

Ultimate Seduction

dashoonage wrote:

If he does I dont want to raise children in a world like this.

I'd love to raise my kids in a world like that. Show them living proof that you can achieve anything if you believe and work. No matter how many people doubt you.

red ears

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

I'd love to raise my kids in a world like that. Show them living proof that you can achieve anything if you believe and work. No matter how many people doubt you.

You need talent though and McGregor has that. I fear there will be many a young Dub who will end up brain damaged and broke trying to follow his path. Not everyone can achieve greatness its very important to know when to bail out and try something else.

Ultimate Seduction

red ears wrote:

You need talent though and McGregor has that. I fear there will be many a young Dub who will end up brain damaged and broke trying to follow his path. Not everyone can achieve greatness its very important to know when to bail out and try something else.

Important to quit when it gets tough?

Funny how every single sports star in the world says the key to their success is to never quit and never stop beliving.

darced

darced wrote: »

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My understanding is that they spar hard when they need to but they are very cautious when it comes to head trauma and pre-fight injuries. So their idea of a hard spar is likely at odds with Paulie's more old-fashioned idea of a hard spar.

https://twitter.com/PaulMalignaggi/status/888960291530170368

https://twitter.com/PaulMalignaggi/status/889238077754834944

From what Kavanagh has said over the years I believe he would strongly disagree with both of those comments.

Gamebred

There is delusional bums (every gym has them) that everyone who follows mma on the local circuit knows that think their the big thing though yet coudnt win an argument never mind professional fights.

rustynutz

red ears wrote: »

You need talent though and McGregor has that. I fear there will be many a young Dub who will end up brain damaged and broke trying to follow his path. Not everyone can achieve greatness its very important to know when to bail out and try something else.

I think Mc Gregors biggest talent is his self belief, apart from his left hand he is not an exceptionally talented fighter imo, but he does also seem to have a very good work ethic which he channels into the right areas, he knows where he is weak and focuses on that in training. The odds are obviously stacked against him in this upcoming fight, but I think it would be foolish to completely write him off.

Mellor

Django99 wrote: »

All the money so far has been on McGregor.

I don't think that's accurate at all actually.

$8.4m matched so far on betfair.
McGregor: $1.9m
Mayweather: $6.5m
And some spare change on the draw.

That's 3.5 times as much action on Floyd and it's been like that since the start. His price peaked weeks ago at 1/4 (1.25). It's been trending down slowly since. The pros are losing out by holding out now.
Conor is climbing, slowly. He won't get back as high as his opening price.

Gamebred

rustynutz wrote: »

but I think it would be foolish to completely write him off.

I wrote Canelo and manny off against Floyd, and you gonna call me foolish for writing off an amatuer v Floyd? I would say giving him a chance of winning is foolish tbh.

Django99

Mellor wrote: »

I don't think that's accurate at all actually.

$8.4m matched so far on betfair.
McGregor: $1.9m
Mayweather: $6.5m
And some spare change on the draw.

That's 3.5 times as much action on Floyd and it's been like that since the start. His price peaked weeks ago at 1/4 (1.25). It's been trending down slowly since. The pros are losing out by holding out now.
Conor is climbing, slowly. He won't get back as high as his opening price.

That's interesting , I hadn't seen the prices lately and assumed they'd still on the same trend (McGregor shortening). I see though that some Vegas bookies still have McGregor at 4/1, and I could only see that drifting big time close to the fight.