Thoughts on Mayweather vs McGregor...

Eddie revealed some PPV numbers in an IFL interview a few months ago :

• (December 12th, 2015) Anthony Joshua vs Dillian Whyte – 420,000
• (April 9th, 2016) Anthony Joshua vs Charles Martin – 500,000+
• (September 10th, 2016) Gennady Golovkin vs Kell Brook – 400,000
• (December 10th, 2016) Anthony Joshua vs Eric Molina – 450,000
• (March 4th, 2017) Tony Bellew vs David Haye – 750,000
• (April 29th, 2017) Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko – 1,200,000

...so Joshua v Fury will be up over 1.5m imho

 

Fury as big a name as Joshua? You crazy!!!

Fury v Klitchko rematch couldn't sell half the MEN arena before the fight was called off. Joshua v Klitchko sold out Wembley!! Fury does not sell as many tickets as AJ and certainly couldn't compete on PPV numbers. You put Fury in the ring with the same opponents and the PPV numbers wouldn't be close.

Even if we look at the ppv numbers for Fury v Klitchko (430k). Joshua vs Klitchko (1.2 mil)

Fury is nowhere close to being as big as Anthony Joshua.

 

As big a name as in he is just as well known as Joshua is, he doesn't sell as many tickets because he has a useless promoter. Every household knows who Tyson Fury is.

 

With those kind of numbers, the UK PPV prices are bound to go up.

 

It was the best he can do. Like i said at the end of the day this is boxing. It's harder to KO someone with 8 ounce gloves than those MMA gloves and its so much easier to choke someone out elbow and kick them. Only wrestling is the hardest part in my opinion.

Mcgreggor thinks boxing is easier sport. But Boxing you only have your fist in that sense it's hard specially when you have a punching technique like Mcgreggor. Dude has overrated power he is not heavy handed at all.

I can't believe MMA fighers punch that way and how easily they fade.
So mcgreggor wake up you are dreaming.

 

Yeah let's be honest, Mcgregor was arm punching. His technique was poor. Maybe in mma he is seen as being a puncher, in a Jack of all trades sports where very few actually specialise in any particular discipline. Mcgregor is deluded. Don't get me wrong a very entertaining character who can fight. However probably the most overrated fighter ever....to the casuals anyway.

 

Floyd carried him. Anyone that knows Floyd especially watching him not cut the ring off

 

Updates on May-Mac PPV.

It is a success, however it did not break the PPV record of May-Pac they had hoped for and it never break the 4.6M
mark, but it was massive regardless.

 

Had conor been in shape he would have made the distance easily. FLoyd waited until conor was gassed before he went on attack. I could have TKOd him in the 10th. TKO by way of exhaustion. COnor needed a boxing trainer who told him he needed to run for his cardio not ride a ****ing bike.

 

That was a vicious body shot and not a low blow. FLoyd kept bending over and covering his head like he did there. wtf was that ****?

 

Martial artists don't practice arm-punching as a means of hurting an opponent. How to punch properly is basic. So if he was punching that way it wasn't because he didn't know any better.

 

He didn't spar to save his glass hands so he could go for the KO. All floyd had to do was make sure his cardio was tip top. Conor was so ****ing gassed he was getting stopped no matter what. A joke a 29 YO who is known to have stamina issues wouldn't run his ass off for 2 months for cardio. If he's in shape that fight goes the distance.

 

Of course they don't practice arm punching. What I mean is to be able to punch properly with turning your body into every shot, that requires full time specialist training which boxers do. MMA fighters clearly don't do this as they have other disciplines to work on.

 

However this was suppose to be the fittest Connor had ever been. It shows the difference between thinking you are in condition and reality.
Him not doing roadwork is a joke, however seemingly quite a few mma fighters don't do running. So I heard in a Joe Roger podcast along with 2 UFC guys.
Remember this was the worst version of Floyd we have ever seen, and he still stopped Mcgregor.

 

That's a complete misrepresentation of what the Martial arts involve. Martial arts not only requires a learning the basics of punching, but also demands a CONSTANT PRACTICE. Otherwise learning is useless. Martial artists are told in basic training that the power of the punch comes essentially from the hips and turning of the torso to provide torque as well as from the simultaneous pushing off with the legs. We keep that skill honed by sparring and using the heavy bag and other such targets on a regular basis during 2 1/2 hour workouts. That is basic to martial arts training. So the art of punching correctly isn't neglected as you are suggesting and it's totally inexcusable for a Martial artist arm punch as if that's the way he was taught unless he is attempting to deceive or their is some type of scheme involved which depends on audience ignorance to be convincing.


BTW
Connor boasts about being a lifelong student of Bruce Lee who wrote a whole book The Tao of Jeet Koon Do during his convalescence from a back injury where the mechanics of correct punching technique is fully and meticulously illustrated. Nothing in that bout testifies to his having followed what he claims to have studied and what he should know by virtue of learning the basics.