After bout Analysis of Mayweather vs McGregor

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IIRC Sugar ''Money'' Mac weighed 168 on the night when he fought Nate Diaz at welterweight (170lbs), 168 is 23lbs above the featherweight limit. No question he was a huge featherweight (145lbs) but like I said lots of MMA fighters cut tons of weight. Plenty of boxers do too.

Er. Floyd has been fighting opponents much bigger than him for years. Many of his opponents have had tons of weight on him come fight night. Canelo, Ortiz, Maidana etc were all in the mid 160s when they fought him. When Floyd fights at welter he is invariably facing bigger men most of the time. But now we're going to start crying about him being at a size disadvantage when he faces a MMA fighter who is a rank novice boxer who'd never had a single professional boxing bout in his life? 0-0-0 lol

And Sugar ''Money'' Mac is not my hero. I enjoy watching him fight and I find him entertaining but he's not even my favourite MMA fighter, let alone favourite fighter or ''hero'' lol. I'm a way, way, way bigger fan of boxing than I am of MMA. It's not even remotely close. And I despise Dana White and I can't stand all those goons that start jumping around like over-excited kids on a sugar rush when the camera pans around the audience at UFC events. PRIDE>>>UFC.

It's only a ''mythical fight'' because Floyd wouldn't dare face Sugar ''Money'' Mac in his realm, Mac had zero problems stepping into Floyd's realm and taking him on under boxing rules, rules that favoured Floyd by a huge extent. Mac took 4 rounds of ''TBE'' and lasted into the 10th despite the fact that his gas tanks had been running on empty for at least 5 rounds and it was his first ever pro boxing bout lol

Holly Holm started out as a kickboxer not a boxer and she's 1-3 in her last 4 MMA fights. She beat Rhonda because that hideous skank started to believe she was a great boxer not a one-trick pony submission artist (albeit a very good trick). And I enjoyed seeing Holm spark her out immensely.

Sugar 'Money'' Mac has only won one fight by submission but he's a stand up fighter whose bread and butter is striking. That means punches and kicks. In fact, his striking is so effective he was able to win 4 rounds of ''TBE'' in his first ever professional boxing bout lol. That's how effective it is.

He trains day in, day out with one of the best submission artists in all of MMA, Floyd isn't going to be able to learn how defend against take downs and submissions in a matter of mere months against Sugar ''Money'' Mac, let alone MMA's elite submission experts and grapplers lol.

And the majority of MMA fighters are not failed boxers lol.



Tim Sylvia is a big fat slow whale who stood in front of a smaller faster former Olympic gold medalist/pro world champion with a bomb of a right hand and he paid the price.

Raymond Mercer vs kickboxer

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Raymond Mercer vs street fighter/MMA novice

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Sugar ''Money'' Mac has terrible stamina. I've known this myself since the Diaz fights. But while he still had air in his lungs and gas in his tanks he was more than holding his own with ''TBE'', no MMA fighter/0-0-0 boxer should be making it even remotely competitive in a boxing ring with a top level boxer, never mind against someone like Floyd. Even a 40 year old Floyd. The fact that Sugar ''Money'' Mac was able to do so is crazy. It was his first ever professional boxing bout and he was facing Floyd Mayweather for goodness sake.

If Sugar ''Money'' Mac has fought a procession of bums in MMA then that only makes what he was able to do against Floyd even more impressive lol

 

"Six months of training isn’t going to be enough," Haye said. "As a UFC fan, I know two or three years wouldn’t be enough. How many times has Toney sprawled in his life? 500? How many leg kicks has he taken in his life? 300? How many Kimura attempts has he defended? 140? Even if he’s done double that amount, he wouldn’t have nearly the experience needed to win a UFC fight."

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"I know from training in MMA myself that the wrestling aspect ruins your punching power," Haye said. "After a minute of grappling, your arms, back and shoulders fill with blood and even if you then find space to throw punches, your power is suddenly crap.

"And I hit a lot harder and I’m so much faster than James, and I couldn’t land a punch on fighters when all they wanted to do was take me down to the ground. James is a much more static fighter than I am, and is going to get thrown on his back immediately by Randy. I admire Toney’s spirit and boxing skills. But he’s delusional here."

--David ''The Hayemaker'' Haye

 

As for what I, aka Serge, predicted before the fight

'My prediction when the fight was announced was McGregor will win the (trash talk/press conferences) by a country mile and Floyd will win the fight by as big a margin. If Floyd was 60 I'd probably still pick him to win. Too fast, too slick, too good, too experienced, and too difficult for actual elite professional boxers and multiple weight champions who've been boxing since they were young kids to lay a glove on vs too MMA and too 0-0-0 in boxing.
Serge, Aug 1, 2017

Fighting Floyd, regardless if he's 40 years old, in your pro debut is crazy and he's going and he's going to get badly embarrassed and humiliated.
Serge, Aug 22, 2017

On Sugar ''Money'' Mac chances and the MMA fans that were picking him to win

'Some of them are clueless, and some of them are taken in by his sheer self-belief and self-confidence in himself that he's going to pull it off.

He's going to realize very quickly that he's badly out of his depth.
Serge, Aug 22, 2017'

If McGregor even manages to win a round off of him it will be a small victory for him. If he even manages to crack him clean with a few hard shots he'll have done well. Anything other than a KO or stoppage win for Floyd will be embarrassing.

His confidence in McGregor would be understandable if they were fighting under MMM rules or McGregor was fighting a fellow MMA guy. However, McGregor is attempting to do something that is just way too big an ask. I wouldn't bet a single penny on him winning. It's crazy to think someone who is 0-0-0 in the sport of boxing could pull something like this off. I'll give him plenty of props if he proves me wrong but I really can't see it.

That £100 is as good as in your hand, IMO.'