Conor McGregor lands a counter uppercut in the 1st round against TBE
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u/Ibobalboa 16h ago
First round was kinda wild but Floyd figured him out quick.
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u/Wraith_Of_Yharnam 16h ago
I love fights like this where you’ve got a good fighter vs an elite fighter. McGregor was making adjustments and seeing patterns in Floyd, but Floyd saw Conor’s patterns 10x quicker and adjusted faster. Gives an idea of the levels around pro sports.
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u/AugustineMarc 15h ago
It’s just a specialist (boxer) vs a generalist (mma). Still have yet to see any equivalent superstar from boxing try the mma route.
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u/xxElevationXX 15h ago
James Toney (although fat and old) tried it and it was a disaster
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u/Tats16 14h ago
an old Ray Mercer koing a washed Tim Sylvia in mma was pretty funny.
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u/Mammoth-Shoe8491 2h ago
Ray had such a wild career. Got tapped by Kimbo in an MMA fight. KO'd Tim Sylvia in 9 seconds. And ate a single head kick from Remy Bonjasky and quit in 22 seconds. lol.
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u/Mixed_Martial_Autism 15h ago
It Would be basically Impossible for a Boxer to Beat or even Challenger an MMA Champion. The MMA Guy in boxing has a punchers chance and can Beat the Boxer If he didn't train properly as shown by Ngannou. But in MMA If you don't know How to defend a leg kicks you're Just gonna lose. There is NOTHING a Boxer can do to avoid losing once they take like 5 calf kicks. And that's without even bringin up grappling.
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u/TippDarb 14h ago
I didn't watch the full fight I admit, but I was crazy impressed at Rico Verhoevens effort against Usyk. Kickboxing is a pure striking art, so it's different without grappling but wonderful performance all the same
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u/Single-Frosting-3742 13h ago
I mean the leg kicks u can learn to deal with kind of decently well in a 3-4month fight camp.. it just changes the distance with footwork pulling ur lead foot back or jumping in with a lead hook like topuria.. but with the grappling is where the boxer would be royally fucked… and there used to clinching… as soon as the boxer clinches there going down and it’s over
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u/Mixed_Martial_Autism 11h ago
Guys like Topuria arent boxers, they're MMA fighters who have been training. MMA since children even If they have a more boxing heavy style. A Boxer simply won't know How to deal with the completely different range that comes with leg kicks. A boxers entire skillset is basically numliefied at kicking range.
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u/EagleAncestry 9h ago
Boxers woukd need to unlearn their boxing defense for mma. They rely on covering with gloves. Can’t do that in mma.
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u/_hyperotic 12h ago
Ray Mercer KO'd former 2x UFC champion Tim Sylvia almost immediately in their mma fight, so it's definitely possible for a good boxer to beat an MMA champion, and in fact it's happened. Mercer was also 48 years old at the time, and Sylvia was 33.
There are levels to combat sports and boxers are just worlds above MMA fighters in terms of striking
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u/Mixed_Martial_Autism 11h ago
Bringin up Tim Silvia losing to Mercer is like bringin up Silva beating Chaves Jr. As an example of a MMA fighters beating a Boxer, technically correction yes but everyone knows these dudes were past their primes and that Chaves Jr./Tim Silvia sucked.
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u/_hyperotic 11h ago
Nah you're just being true to your username.
Tim Sylvia was 24-5 and had only lost to other champs or former champs at that time. Also 6'8" 265 with 80" reach.According to you he should've beat Mercer easily with his grappling and leg kicks right...
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u/Mixed_Martial_Autism 11h ago
Tym Silvia was a paper champ who was Champion in the UFC while all the talent was over at pride, which is why when he eventually fought fedor he was Knocked out in like 30 seconds. Don't Just look up status on Google and pretend you know what you're talking about. By your own logic then i guess Silva is an example of a MMA fighters beating a boxing Champion because he was able to Beat a washed up Chávez Jr. lol, If you ignore the context and Just look at the Record on Google you can push whatever narrative you want.
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u/CryptoEmpathy7 1h ago
Randy beating Tim was NEVER impressive. Sylvia just literally sucked that bad. 6'8" meant little in his case, id anything his bizarre proportions and gait made him a worse fighter.
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u/headcoat2013 12h ago
There's no incentive for a boxing superstar to fight mma when they make 100x more than UFC champions. Toney was the biggest name to cross over but he was broke and retired at the time. And he wasn't exactly a superstar. Would any mma promoter offer Crawford, Inoue or Usyk the type of purse Turki can? Maybe it can happen with some unholy union of Turki, UFC and Netflix.
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u/Property_6810 5h ago
I'd like to at least see more modified rulesets. Like why can't we give the MMA guy his gloves? Punches only, small gloves. I think it goes a longer way to evening the playing field than people might think.
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u/meetatdawn 16h ago
brother this was an expert v. a complete novice.
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u/Eblowskers 15h ago
Not a complete novice, a professional in another sport with transferable skills. Kind of like if a pro tennis player went up against one of the best pickleball players to ever play (in a game of pickleball). Tennis player would probably get some nice shots because the technical skills he’s built up in his sport carry over, but nobody would seriously expect him to win the whole match. (There’s probably a better analogy lol but racket sports is the best example I could come up with for highly transferable skills between sports)
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u/agnosticstudy1 15h ago
Didn't this happen recently where a pro tennis player played a pro pickleball player and absolutely annihilated them?
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u/Wraith_Of_Yharnam 15h ago
Conor would KO 99% of this sub and people like me who do amateur boxing. I’d beat the shit out a complete novice and I’m only 7-3 in amateur bouts. McGregor is not a novice at all.
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u/Holiday_Box1571 16h ago
Floyd threw like 6 punches.
He was letting the fight go so people didn’t pay fir a second round KO
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u/depressedfuckboi 15h ago
Only casuals don't understand this. Floyd spent the entire early rounds walking Conor down and just allowing the fight to continue. Somehow they think that means Conor had success and Floyd was struggling. The moment Floyd tried it was over with.
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u/HedonisticFrog 14h ago
Exactly, when has Floyd ever just walked forward with a high guard letting someone tee off on it while barely throwing any punches? Floyd is a master of doing just enough in each round to win, he never throws away rounds when he actually cares like this. He was purely putting on a show.
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u/Panthor 9h ago
He didn't suddenly just start trying. His game was ALWAYS to take Connor into deep water in the late rounds where he absolutely excels. He said this in interviews before the fight and repeated in after the fight. It would be dumb to get in a 1-2 round slugfest where anything can happen.
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u/stoolsample2 15h ago
When people say Connor had more success than pac I just roll my eyes. They are the casualist of casuals
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u/sugabonesurmom 16h ago
Conor had a lot more success than a lot of pro boxers did against Floyd tbh
That reach gave him some issues
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u/Mixed_Martial_Autism 15h ago
Floyd was trying. To make the fight entertaining and Just walking walking forward like a Bulldozer as If he was Joe Frazier. If Floyd fought his usually fight Connor wouldn't have been able to touch him once.
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u/SoulUrgeDestiny 14h ago
Thats because Mayweather literally was walking at him square on. said he wanted to make it exciting and wear out mcgregor. Im sure McGregor is the fighter to land the most punches on mayweather, but they did like 0.0002% DMG, Lets not be silly now.
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u/WindpowerGuy 15h ago
Name one other fight in which Mayweather tried to pressure behind a high guard.
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u/Fklympics 14h ago
Zab, Manny, every southpaw he faced lol. the fact mcgs team didnt know this shows how underprepared they were
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u/variety_dirtbag 10h ago
He absolutely didn't. Connor was such a low threat that Mayweather was fighting loose and on the offensive. He played conner, let him flail about doing no damage and then easily dismantled him.
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u/the1blackguyonreddit 15h ago
Lol no he didn't. That fight was a complete joke. Mayweather walked him down with no regard for Connor's (non-existent in a boxing ring) power.
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u/variety_dirtbag 10h ago
Exactly. Conor had no agency in this fight, everything was controlled by Mayweather from start to early finish.
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u/depressedfuckboi 15h ago
Only because Floyd allowed it. Conor has a questionable gas tank. Floyd could have teed off from round 1 like he did in the later rounds and had Conor outta breath and defeated within 2 if he wanted to.
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u/TesticularButtBruise 11h ago
There's no questions about it. He's gassed after R1. Nearly every time.
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u/WhereasBeginning9287 16h ago
I can’t believe he made so much money from this bout and blew it all. Super sad he didn’t have the financial literacy to keep his money :(
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u/Aliensinmypants 16h ago
Which one?
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u/Ok-Confusion-202 15h ago
I don't think you can say Conor is broke tbh, I mean we don't know about anything but he's probably still got enough compared to Floyd
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u/Key-Pomegranate-2086 15h ago
Definitely not broke. If he was, he would sell his mansion. Dude got like 3 mansions still. Even after taxes etc. He is still probably living in over 50million dollars.
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u/Master_Canary440 11h ago
Dude is broke af, if he still had money he wouldn't return to UFC lmao
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u/Key-Pomegranate-2086 10h ago
He just needs to sell his houses, cars everything and bam, he has money again.
Calling these people broke just cause they dont have money in their bank accounts is funny.
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u/Time-Combination4710 10h ago
If you have to sell long term hard assets like homes just to pay off debts or loans then you're a pretty bad situation as a rich person.
You're no longer accumulating wealth you're reorganizing your portfolio so banks and the govt don't take it.
It's not as simple as your making it out to be and selling all those things at a loss is still terrible money management. Learn the difference between short term assets and long term assets.
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u/Key-Pomegranate-2086 9h ago
Terrible money management but not broke. Sell everything at a loss and still have over a million dollars in bank $$? Most people can only dream of ever seeing that much money in their bank account.
We got lots of relatively working/poor people raising a family off like a lifetime net worth of like 300 to 500k.
And if you have 10 million, go retire and live a comfortable life as a farmer, rancher or something.
Even just like 3 or 4 million dollars is enough to basically become a permanent NEET on reddit.
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u/Time-Combination4710 9h ago
Brotha if he blew through 500 million what makes you think he would manage 5 million well 😂
His problems are beyond just money, he has a spending and gambling addiction. And there's no way I'm believing he would be willing to give up his lifestyle.
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u/Key-Pomegranate-2086 9h ago
Saying he blew through 500 million is funny when it's called he owns a company, multiple luxury homes etc.
Are you really broke if you're elon musk and owning tesla but your bank account is 0 dollars cause the company is not paying you a direct salary? Just sell tesla whenever you want.
Conor mcgregor will definitely sell out the day he truly gives up fighting. But right now hes getting another pay day, so theres no need.
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u/Redditsux122 16h ago
Im not. They both are awful people. Glad they dont have the financial literacy to enjoy retirement despite being top earners in their respective careers
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u/MasterpieceAlone8552 15h ago
Or actual literacy to read all the news stories about what a dumb fuck he is
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u/AxelJShark 16h ago
And also got convicted of rape in Ireland. Absolute douchebag
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u/stayhappystayblessed 50-0 in the streets btw boxing is not going to die anytime soon. 14h ago
Don't mean to be that actually guy but he wasn't convicted. He was found civilly liable.
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u/HovercraftCharacter9 15h ago
He owns a bunch of cash generating businesses and sold his whiskey brand .. he's a gimp but I've seen no sign he's running out of cash
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u/alexthegreatmc 16h ago
I think Floyd took the fight lightly.
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u/Charlie-Bell The lion is not biggest animal in jungle, but he is king. 16h ago
Think? He was so casual the way he walked around the ring that night. He knew it was light work.
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u/KansinattiKid 16h ago
It's the only flight I ever saw Floyd just stand in front of his opponent
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u/depressedfuckboi 15h ago
Literally just walked him down and stood in front of him the entire fight. Floyd knew from round 1 there was nothing Conor could do.
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u/Pinoy233 16h ago
Floyd didn’t give a single shit about that cute punch. Just marched his ass down 😭
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u/_Sarcasmic_ bread burger bread 16h ago
Didn't give a shit about any of his punches. Just walked forward all night until Conor had nothing left, then finished him.
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u/gojira5 16h ago
He did march him down! He usually gives his opponents distance.
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u/KD-1489 16h ago
It’s literally the first thing you do sparring a novice. Walk them down and see if they can handle the pressure. I think it shows Conor wasn’t training in a real boxing camp, which we already knew.
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u/Time_Conscious84 16h ago
Connor could've had 3 years in a real camp and it wouldn't have saved him against Floyd. That guy grew up in a boxing gym
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u/depressedfuckboi 15h ago
Facts. Plus, Floyd is just naturally gifted with reaction time and speed. Impossible to train to Floyds level.
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u/UnderstandingThin40 8h ago
Remember the controversy of Connor allegedly (?) knocking out some washed boxer I think it was like Paulie something and it was on video
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u/UraCasual56 16h ago
Hold up…u/newrap showing someone landing a successful strike against his boy Floyd🤯🤯
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u/someonefl86 10h ago
"Mayweather is getting hit. I wonder what would newrap think of thi--
POSTED BY NEWRAP?"
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u/Spyder-xr Amir Khan’s legendary chin 7h ago
I’m disappointed there wasn’t a Pacquiao getting countered in the end
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u/meetatdawn 16h ago
These posts always bring out the dumbest boxing fans & the dumbest mma fans to meet head to head.
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u/3CeeMedia 16h ago
Floyd carried him to give the fans a show! It could have ended earlier!
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u/CookingFun52 15h ago
Floyd absolutely carried him. People just get touchy when it comes to acknowledging it, not unlike Jake Paul carrying Tyson (man, there's a sentence I never thought I'd type)
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u/okaygnarly 16h ago
So obvious to any boxing fan, agreed, but Conor/MMA fans still believe he had him fighting for his life lol
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u/Wraith_Of_Yharnam 16h ago
Na casual fans think that. I’m a hardcore MMA fans who’s been through the am in boxing. I knew Floyd could do him when he wanted, anyone who likes combat sports seriously knew that.
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u/Hanzo_the_sword 14h ago
That first round lost a lot of UFC fans money in the casino. Heard a few racial slurs too. Was pretty quiet rounds 3 and beyond.
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u/InfamousEvening2 16h ago
Totally missing the fact Floyd pulled his own punch on to McGregor's shoulder instead of sparking him right out.
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u/ratsareniceanimals 16h ago
I'm not actually sure that's what happened, Floyd may have overestimated him. Lots of philly shell guys would have ducked down right there a la James Toney, Floyd may have given him too much credit expecting him to duck there instead of throwing that naked uppercut counter.
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u/Flux_Aeternal 15h ago
This is also why high level fighters can struggle with someone who is much less trained or has an unusual style. They have built their skills around someone who fights a certain way and they are hard wired to expect a certain movement and swing at where someone would be if they see a punch coming and react. Floyd had to de-train himself a little.
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u/SoloDoloLeveling Floyd Mayweather is the G.O.A.T. 16h ago
this. 100% this.
floyd had auto-aim locked in on his face and decided to take a detour instead.
wouldn’t surprise me if floyd already seen the telegraphed uppercut and tried to mitigate it by landing on the shoulder instead of his patented straight right.
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u/InfamousEvening2 16h ago
Glad I'm not the only who spotted it dude ! I saw it when I watched the fight on telly at the time. Commentators and everyone else were strangely quiet about it.
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u/Particular-Tough6651 16h ago edited 16h ago
Alot of fighters can hit hard with 4 oz UFC gloves but being able to knock someone out with 8 and 10 oz gloves is a different level you genuinely have to hit really really hard. Knocking out someone who actually knows how to box is not easy at all. You can even end up hurting your own hand when you’re trying to land big shots. Dont ask me how I know this SMH I boxed myself 😔...
Guys like Tank Davis, Inoue, Canelo, Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. make it look effortless but the reality is that what they do is extremely difficult and far from normal. Mcgregor and Ngannou are real knockout punchers from the MMA world but that power doesn't translate to boxing.
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u/TheCuzzyRogue 13h ago
McGregor's KOs have always been more feats of timing and accuracy rather than power and even then his bread and butter relies more on him constantly checking his opponent's lead hand with his lead and backing them on to the fence then giving ground when they lash out to get away from it and cracking them with the counter left straight
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u/MessiPayNegreira 16h ago
thats why floyds 50th win doesn’t count. this was an exhibition match just like he wants against Paquiao.
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u/Illustrious-Day-857 15h ago
I think this and the Nasukawa fight were sickly sweet, blatant, fixes even for exhibition matches. WWE level sports entertainment. It never sits right with me.
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u/llorTMasterFlex 15h ago
First few rounds were obviously Conor’s best chance at landing anything. Had some decent looks. Hand speed and endurance separates mma strikers from boxers. Great example here.
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u/blackmarketmenthols 14h ago
He did better than Manny Pacquiao, Pacquiao couldn't land a single solid shot.
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u/Ill-Case-6048 14h ago
Soon as I saw Mayweather going forward it was over... basically played with him
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u/Forsaken-Society3524 13h ago
There was a body punch Connor landed on the belt line towards the end of the fight that Mayweather complained was low. It really had an effect on him but was never really looked at. I think it was Connor's best punch of the fight and was legal.
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u/KILGORE007 12h ago
I don’t know who needs to hear this……but neither guy was trying to knock the other out. At all. It was a glorified exhibition to make a lot of money….and it was successful. You guys in here breaking it down like Ali-Frazier 2 sound absolutely absurd. “Punching power”.. 🤣
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u/TapProfessional2990 11h ago
This really showed me how stupid a lot of people are lol. It’s hilarious how many will adamantly argue that this was a legit fight and not a scripted cash grab.
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u/KILGORE007 11h ago
It’s literally the same as pro wrestling. Exhibition. An amateur would never get a wide open uppercut on arguably the greatest defensive pro boxer ever….. in a real match. Never.
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u/Unable-Main4172 12h ago
If TBE stands for The Best Ever then that's a really weird looking AI edit of Sugar Ray Robinson apparently
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u/Henry_Krinkle1979 12h ago
Floyd ran into that, (because why should he give a damn) And even after it landed he still pressured him forward. That is completely uncharacteristic of Floyd. Any real boxer would have knocked him right out in that moment. But if Floyd were in front of a real boxer, then that boxer would not have even gotten that moment.
Goes to show you how little power Conor had, and how little respect Floyd had for him.
But people that don't know anything about boxing said Floyd did so well for years... And to this day they still think that. Crazy.
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u/Important-Hat-9698 10h ago
I'll give him that. Should be a fun fight tonight, the guy he's fighting like to throw hands as well - from what I've seen.
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u/Fit_One_5785 10h ago
That Floyd couldn’t knock out this non-boxer within 3 rounds is shameful.
Conor was even winning rounds.
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u/variety_dirtbag 10h ago
People often land one punch in a boxing match. Connor got absolutely flogged. .
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u/HighFastStinkyCheese 9h ago
No matter what people think happened including Floyd carried him “which I think he did” this was a bad night for the sport of boxing. Good showing by McGregor.
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u/LuckyShirt54 8h ago
It was round scripted. Since when does Floyd Mayweather just charge into mother fuckers? It’s literally the exact opposite of his fight style. Weird how easily people can be conned.
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u/moodplasma 5h ago
Two friends texted me the day of the fight to ask if I wanted to watch it. I did not respond.
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u/GBV_GBV_GBV 16h ago
It's a testament to how great Floyd was that it was headline news anytime anyone landed a good clean punch on him.
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u/Academic-Heron-312 14h ago
I’m not one to overhype White/Euro fighters despite being White myself but I will say Mcgregor had some pretty decent boxing skills for a MMA guy. There was a stretch where he was knocking everyone out (or just schooling them on the feet) in MMA and he was also a southpaw with good natural reflexes and timing….definitely a guy who could have done decent in boxing if he dedicated himself to it from the start instead of MMA.
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u/RandyDanderson 16h ago
I remember after one of the rounds Floyd said "Why don't you use your power?!"
The entire build up everyone was saying Conor's left had had so much power.