Fight Time From 4am-McGregor vs Mayweather**MOD Warning in 1st Post**

walshb wrote: »

I agree. I think they are heavily scripted and then an agreement that they can throw in the odd improvisation...

Like I said, no ties whatsoever between these two. Their supposed hostility is based of 0!

I don't know that it's too tightly scripted, but yeah it's basically just salesmanship from two of the best around at it (and two of the best there have been at it for a very long time). Both of them are hugely into the money/business side of their sports, and credit to them for it since you should get what you can while you can, and it's highly entertaining, but I wouldn't by any means take this as straight up bad blood stuff.

Scoring pre fight press conferences... Only in cuckoo land eh

irishman86 wrote: »

:rolleyes: He clearly threw it back where it came from. You personally may not but most here do, Ireland is a jealous nation. So many people hate him because he comes from the north side of the river. For years Robbie Keane got abuse purely because of where he was born, now its Conors turn.
I think its sad actually how jealous people get over others success, like I said just because you(not you poster) have failed or not achieved anything doesnt mean you should **** all over someone elses success.
You say lose rationality on something because of geography when infact most of the people dislike him for the very reason hes a successful Irish man

normanoffside wrote: »

North of which river? The Dodder?

irishman86 wrote: »

Technically "the Liffey, of which the Dodder is the largest tributary"
So when talking off rivers of Dublin its pretty obvious which one people talk about :rolleyes:

Wheety wrote: »

Not sure if I'm reading your messages wrong but McGregor is from Crumlin.

And to clarify Crumlin is south of the Liffey

snowflaker wrote: »

But he's not 5, so he needs to be accountable for his words

FYI - Conor has called himself a dancing monkey and/or compared himself to a monkey on 4 separate occasions. I can provide links if you wish.

My point (quite obviously) is that the monkey thing isn't a black or white issue in the context Conor uses it. He uses it to describe "being a lackey". He called himself a dancing monkey because he didn't want to do what the UFC was telling him to do. He called himself a caged monkey in the lead-up to the Aldo fight.

More cynically, racial tension in sports sells. Always has, from Jesse Owens all the way to the present day.

It's just a stone-cold-fact that 3 of the 4 lowest-revenue fights Floyd has had in the last 13 years were Zab Judah, Shane Moseley and Andre Berto (all black) while his 3 highest were 2 Mexicans and a Philipino.

Black v white or black v hispanic sells better in the modern era, for a lot of reasons, one probably being because boxing for so long (1950-1990) was dominated by black athletes.

TL;DR - Intentional or otherwise, if this becomes a black v white thing it'll only increase PPV sales, especially in Trump's America.

I'd hate to see Conor *intentionally* going down that road because I firmly believe he's nowhere near racist.