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The official AH McGregor vs Mayweather thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Mayweather DQ
    I think this is being treated a lot more serious than that.

    I mean will Floyd claim the 50 if he wins? I think he'll try too which is farcical.

    Well he has copyrights/patents out on "50-0" so you better believe he'll be claiming it.

    Funnily enough he beat Big Show in WWE at Wrestlemania 24 back in 2008 in a no DQ match. He didn't claim that tho :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    I think this is being treated a lot more serious than that.

    I mean will Floyd claim the 50 if he wins? I think he'll try too which is farcical.

    That really depends who you talk to Tbf.

    As I already said, I don't follow the sport so I honestly couldn't answer but sure some football teams claim the community shield makes a treble, it all depends on who wins and who you ask. It's not that deep.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,945 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    The best result for both parties is a rematch. Maybe a convenient disqualification for McGregor that still keeps his purse but allows a rematch. Or maybe a dodgy injury.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    If it's a 12 round war, is it still farcical?

    Mayweather in a war are you serious!? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,366 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Mayweather DQ
    I agree.

    I know plenty that watch the likes of Big Brother, Soaps, Kardashians, Geordie Shore I mean the list goes on and on. As you said people enjoy bad TV and whats interesting to one wont be to another.

    I have no problem with what people watch or spend their money on, however I do have a problem with trying to legitimize this as a competitive boxing match when its not. Floyd absolutely does not deserve the 50-0 after this.

    This is more akin to WWE or something like that or some other version of tv entertainment.

    I think a lot of people are in for a big disappointment.

    WWE at least is a spectacle where you are guaranteed say 4-5 hours entertainment at a Wrestlemania for your money.

    This could potentially go one of two ways.
    1. It's over super quick
    2. We get a totally one sided defensive match for 12 rounds where Floyd's barely grazed

    People are paying $100 on ppv for this or $1,000 for cheap seats so they are expecting a proper fight which could go either way.

    Anyone that has doubts about what they are going to see tonight before putting down money should watch Canelo Alvarez and chavez jr back in May. Now remember Mayweather easily beat Canelo and McGregor isn't in same universe of boxer that Chavez jr is

    I could see the crowd reacting very badly after tonight's fight. People don't like to be scammed and when you spend thousands that feeling is worse.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    neonsofa wrote: »
    That really depends who you talk to Tbf.

    As I already said, I don't follow the sport so I honestly couldn't answer but sure some football teams claim the community shield makes a treble, it all depends on who wins and who you ask. It's not that deep.

    Nothing deep about it, Floyd is a professional boxer whio fought and beat 49 previous opponents who were all legit pro boxers, McGregor isn't a boxer, Floyd is one of the all time greats so I don't think he deserves to be 50-0 off this fight.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Mayweather K.O.
    WWE is panto featuring muscled men feigning injury - I'm always bemused that its spectators are mostly adults.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,682 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    WWE is panto featuring muscled men feigning injury - I'm always bemused that its spectators are mostly adults.

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    "His name is Tom"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    WWE is panto featuring muscled men feigning injury - I'm always bemused that its spectators are mostly adults.

    At least its honest.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Mayweather K.O.
    At least its honest.

    Sure it is, muscled steroid heads pretending to beat each other up.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭BQQ


    This fight is a farce

    Mayweather only got bronze in the olympics
    That means he has lost against an amateur boxer and now he's expected to go up against The GOAT
    He won't even land a punch


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    Sure it is, muscled steroid heads pretending to beat each other up.


    I don't watch wrestling anymore but wrestlers, especially in the past, destroyed themselves in order to entertain.

    I mean are you trying to dispute that? The damage and injury's sustained are very real, we all know the the outcomes are scripted but they don't pretend otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,682 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    I don't watch wrestling anymore but wrestlers, especially in the past, destroyed themselves in order to entertain.

    I mean are you trying to dispute that? The damage and injury's sustained are very real, we all know the the outcomes are scripted but they don't pretend otherwise.

    I lost count of how many haircuts Brutus brutalised.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    Nothing deep about it, Floyd is a professional boxer whio fought and beat 49 previous opponents who were all legit pro boxers, McGregor isn't a boxer, Floyd is one of the all time greats so I don't think he deserves to be 50-0 off this fight.

    But that's not the fault of mcgreggor fans who are being slagged off for having the audacity to get excited about the event.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    McGregor DQ
    So the poll is closed and the results are
    119 think Mcgregor will win and
    203 think Mayweather will win
    5 went for a draw.

    I must admit I'm surprised. I thought it would be closer than that.


  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    McGregor DQ
    ^^^ Edit- Ha ha - :D

    Voting so far:

    203: Mayweather

    119: McGregor

    Tighter odds on the other thread: 74:56 but still in Mayweather's favour

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057773614&page=11


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Mayweather DQ
    Conspectus wrote: »
    So the poll is closed and the results are
    119 think Mcgregor will win and
    203 think Mayweather will win
    5 went for a draw.

    I must admit I'm surprised. I thought it would be closer than that.

    Closer!?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭A Battered Mars Bar


    Great! AH polls are consistently wrong due to the type of people who post here. :D McGregor to win! !


  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    McGregor DQ
    For those who haven't seen this- good discussion worth a watch.

    (thanks to Outlaw Pete for original link)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    McGregor DQ
    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Closer!?

    I suspected Mayweather would win the poll but not by that much.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Mayweather K.O.
    I don't watch wrestling anymore but wrestlers, especially in the past, destroyed themselves in order to entertain.

    They're actors, bad actors. Sometimes they hurt themselves while they're acting. WWE is just daft, it's not a sport, it's steroid heads doing acrobatic panto.

    Drop it.


  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    McGregor DQ
    Great! AH polls are consistently wrong due to the type of people who post here. :D McGregor to win! !

    I'd love if he did. And if you asked me yesterday, I would have said McGregor. But today, I'm firmly saying Mayweather. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong and like I said, I'm happy been proven wrong- but I do think Mayweather will clinch it- Skills and Experience over Youth and Agility.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    One option not on the poll was one of the boxers retiring between rounds, which I think is actually a more likely option than usual...the corner pulling out a jaded Mayweather/cut and bloody McGregor.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    When you don't care what happens you just want to see a good fight and I think it will go 12 rounds which would be a bit embarrassing. Will be interesting to see how Floyd moves about and approaches it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭willmunny1990


    They're actors, bad actors. Sometimes they hurt themselves while they're acting. WWE is just daft, it's not a sport, it's steroid heads doing acrobatic panto.

    Drop it.

    Never claimed WWE was a sport, its entertainment, people are entertained by different things, nothing wrong with that.

    And as for steroid heads, most if not all top level athletes are enhanced as most of us are aware. Didn't Jon Jones test dirty again?

    Its no dafter than this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭snowflaker




  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    McGregor DQ
    Can I ask, does anyone else think of this song when this fight is mentioned? :D



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,366 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Mayweather DQ
    They're actors, bad actors. Sometimes they hurt themselves while they're acting. WWE is just daft, it's not a sport, it's steroid heads doing acrobatic panto.

    Drop it.

    WWE and mma have their origins in the same place. Both originated from the days of Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. In fact the very first 'mma contest' was promoted by the current owner of WWE Vince McMahon back in 1976 and UFC former owners the fertittas make no qualms about the fact they stole Vince's blueprint completely.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Mayweather DQ
    The MMA thread says 5, the boxing thread 4. A poster in that thread said 4.30. Sky says 12 but they want me to watch their ads. Does anybody really know what time the fighting in the ring will actually start at?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Idioteque


    The MMA thread says 5, the boxing thread 4. A poster in that thread said 4.30. Sky says 12 but they want me to watch their ads. Does anybody really know what time the fighting in the ring will actually start at?

    No-one can tell exactly unfortunately. Dana White has already said that as happened in the Mayweather Vs Pacquaio fight, they will delay the start if there's a massive rush to buy the fight late on and the phones/online systems can't process the backlog quick enough....every 10min delay probably makes them ridiculous money with the extra PPV's so I'm sure both fighters will wait


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,413 ✭✭✭chupacabra


    The MMA thread says 5, the boxing thread 4. A poster in that thread said 4.30. Sky says 12 but they want me to watch their ads. Does anybody really know what time the fighting in the ring will actually start at?

    4am is a good bet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Imallrightjack


    I asked 4 people today. well how do you think mcgregor will do?and the answer was i hope he gets the ****e kicked out of him.

    **** them.i hope he wins and wins well.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,863 ✭✭✭buried


    While we're on about bets and all that, Any knowledgeable fans like to give us a tip or advice what round to back McGregor to maybe win it? Won a few quid from a great tip from some good folk in the last time a AH McGregor thread was here. I know this is a totally different type event, but what do ye think? What would you realistically back or what round expect him to do it? Thanks in advance!

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    The MMA thread says 5, the boxing thread 4. A poster in that thread said 4.30. Sky says 12 but they want me to watch their ads. Does anybody really know what time the fighting in the ring will actually start at?

    John Kavanagh said that the offical walk out time is 4am.......... but that's if all other fights are done and dusted in time.

    Rarely do these things go to schedule.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭Too Tough To Die


    Mayweather DQ
    buried wrote: »
    While we're on about bets and all that, Any knowledgeable fans like to give us a tip or advice what round to back McGregor to maybe win it? Won a few quid from a great tip from some good folk in the last time a AH McGregor thread was here. I know this is a totally different type event, but what do ye think? What would you realistically back or what round expect him to do it? Thanks in advance!

    A knowledgeable fan would tell you to not back McGregor.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭moneyman


    A knowledgeable fan would tell you to not back McGregor.

    Exactly. Smart money is on Floyd. If you just want to throw on a tenner for fun, pick a KO in the first half of the fight. I'm talking about if you want to bet for Conor, as he's likely not going to have the stamina to KO Floyd in the later rounds.

    Realistically though, Floyd will be doing what he wants in there, including finishing it when he wants. Hopefully I'm wrong and Conor pulls it off though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Mayweather DQ
    Thanks for the timing info guys. I'll get up before 4 and drink in the drama


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Anyone know if the fight can be picked up on the radio?

    MW or SW maybe?

    I guess BBC Radio 5 will be blocked to us here in the ROI.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    LordSutch wrote: »

    I guess BBC Radio 5 will be blocked to us here in the ROI.

    Damn, I forgot about that... and I was about to set my alarm to listen to it!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    I asked 4 people today. well how do you think mcgregor will do?and the answer was i hope he gets the ****e kicked out of him.

    **** them.i hope he wins and wins well.

    Do you hope he wins for any other reason than he's Irish? **** that . Just because he happens to be born in the same country as me isn't a good enough reason for me to like him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,212 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Mayweather DQ
    I want McGregor to win but can't see it happening.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Mayweather K.O.
    I think all the BBC radio stations are broadcast from the Astra satellites so can be tuned in if you have a Sky dish and free to air box (maybe a Sky box will work too?).

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Good luck Conor. Would enjoy waking up , switching on sky and seeing Mayweather on the floor, along with the last piece of dignity leaving boxing...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,643 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Mayweather DQ
    buried wrote: »
    While we're on about bets and all that, Any knowledgeable fans like to give us a tip or advice what round to back McGregor to maybe win it? Won a few quid from a great tip from some good folk in the last time a AH McGregor thread was here. I know this is a totally different type event, but what do ye think? What would you realistically back or what round expect him to do it? Thanks in advance!


    I think the best estimate is that if he can hold on until the three millionth round he might then be in with a shot.

    (By that time Mayweather would be well into his 60's.)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Nettle Soup


    I want McGregor to win but can't see it happening.

    It would be really weird if McGregor won.

    Provided there is no "fix", Mayweather should dismiss McGregor with ease. I can see Mayweather toying with McGregor for a few rounds before he ends it.

    McGregor is great at MMA but Mayweather is a supreme boxer. No contest really.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Good luck to Conor McGregor. Sorry if I'm just being a bit patriotic but I want my fellow Irish person to win. We are a nation of complete begrudgers. If he wins or loses will it impact on your lives? No it won't. Whether you support him or not you'll still get up in the morning and go about your day as normal. He's had a passion for UFC and sacrificed a lot to get to where he is today. He's still working hard on every aspect of his fitness. He's not harming any of us in doing what he loves. This is a landmark fight too. So what if both McGregor and Mayweather are paid handsomely for it. Their respective fighting genres have always commanded big paychecks for big events like this. Nothing will change there. My final comment is that if you don't want to look at it don't, go about your day as normal tomorrow and if people bring it up just say you don't follow it and move on.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    Draw
    Would it be weird to make a bet based on listening to others and having no legit knowledge of either sport myself?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Mayweather DQ
    Would it be weird to make a bet based on listening to others and having no legit knowledge of either sport myself?

    You'd be in the same boat as 95% of the betting public.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,643 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Mayweather DQ
    Would it be weird to make a bet based on listening to others and having no legit knowledge of either sport myself?


    I wouldn't advise that for anything.

    But it's your money

    And it might also be a case of "the blind leading the blind" depending on who you are listening to.


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