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

Jesus I just watched the Gatti fight for the first time in ages . So painful to watch won't be watching it again anytime soon

Vaguely remember it I was still quite young . The thing that always stuck out for me was between one of the rounds instead of talking to Floyd Roger was talking to the camera 'told you it would be an ass whoppin, and its live on HBO'

ThinkProgress wrote: »

I have a feeling, that the magnitude of this event, might be too much for Conor... I think the pressure to perform with the eyes of the world watching, will simply be too much for him! He's completely out of his comfort zone in a boxing ring... this will be obvious for everyone to see very early in the fight imo!

walshb wrote: »

I mentioned the same pages ago. And was dismissed by the fan boys as "not having a clue about who Conor is.!

walshb wrote: »

Like I said, Pete. Like pulling teeth...

Conor has fought on big "MMA" stages. Well done for pointing that out...

Conor headlined UFC 205 in Madison Square Garden.

The gate for UFC 205 was $17.7 million. It broke the MSG gate record. It was *literally* the biggest fight card monetarily ever held in one of the most iconic venues. A-List celebrities (Madonna, Odell Beckham Jr. Leonardo diCaprio etc) were in attendance. The PPV sold over 1.3 million.

To put all of the above into context:

Conor's gate record in MSG was the 4th highest combat sports gate of all-time, it's ahead of Lewis-Holyfield 2, Holyfield-Tyson 1&2, Tyson-McNeeley, Floyd-Maidana 1.

Conor holds 4 of the top 20 PPV's in combat sports history. Conor v Nate 1 is in 6th place, Conor v Nate 2 is in 9th place, Conor v Eddie is in 13th place, Conor v Aldo is in 17th place.

Conor holds 5 of the top 40 gate's in combat sports history.

UFC 189 - $7,200,000
UFC 194 - $10,100,000
UFC 196 - $8,100,000
UFC 202 - $7,700,000
UFC 205 - $17,700,000

In 2 weeks from now, Conor will hold 2 of the top 5 combat sports gate's of all time, with Floyd holding 4 of the top 5.

Those "big MMA stages" you attempted to mock are occasions most boxers could only dream about fighting on with the PPV audience and gate so high with A-list celebrities in attendance.

Conor is not a gym fighter. I've seen sparring footage of him in MMA looking bang-average and when the big lights, big pressure occasion arrives he fights like a world-beater.

You're absolutely delusional if you think the occasion will get to him. He'll rise to it and perform at his very best. If his best is not good enough, fine.

Cant wait for Conor to knock him in first two rounds 😀

hbhook wrote: »

McG's workout..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh6iaigSXBU..

Anything people will be looking out for or this just more a promotional thing?

hbhook wrote: »

Well, he won't have to do anything MW didn't do...I suppose people might want look out for if he looks a lil heavy like MW mentioned but I doubt that will be on show or even that noticeable. I'm only guessing I saw parts of all of the different aspects of Floyd's workout last night. Maybe he kept it simple for a reason...

Has it been cancelled?

wonderfullife wrote: »

Conor is not a gym fighter. I've seen sparring footage of him in MMA looking bang-average and when the big lights, big pressure occasion arrives he fights like a world-beater.

You're absolutely delusional if you think the occasion will get to him. He'll rise to it and perform at his very best. If his best is not good enough, fine.

But you've also seen him fall apart under the lights, and get his a$$ handed to him... by a very average journeyman like Nate Diaz!

He didn't exactly shine under those lights, when he was doing the chicken dance and getting choked out by some rank average dopey pothead...

I think the pressure might have got to him a bit that night. He told the world, that he would swat Nate Diaz away with ease. But... well... it went quite a bit off track for him that night!

Floyd has never had one of those off colour nights... he's never had such a hugely disappointing under-performance in a big high profile fight.

Conor has never fought in a fight of this magnitude before... you can post about all the UFC fights you want, but not one of them will even come close to the size of this thing. Conor has never been under this level of pressure or scrutiny in his entire life. He has never had this many eyes of the world watching him... and (most importantly)... he has never had a professional boxing match in his life!!

When you add all of that up, it's easy to see how he could potentially bottle it under this kind of pressure. If it can happen in the Diaz fight (within his own sport)... then why not against a superstar like Floyd, in his pro debut boxing match, with a giant world audience waiting patiently to see if he can KO one of boxing's greats!? Or if he's just bluffing, like in the Diaz fights!!

I just get the feeling, that he is going to freeze up, like Bambi in headlights... and it's going to be very uncomfortable for people to watch. And I think Floyd senses this too... he knows that Conor has the occasional dodgy performance in his locker... I think that's one of the main reasons why he took this fight to begin with.

I think Conor's two performances against Diaz, were the main dealmakers for Floyd in terms of accepting this fight. I think he seen enough evidence in both those fights, that Conor can under-perform on a big night under the lights... and that he has significant weaknesses in his game, that can easily be exposed by a top boxer in a boxing ring!!

Conor should probably thank Nate Diaz... if he hadn't made Conor look so bad in those fights, Floyd would likely never have accepted this fight!! Silver linings and all that, eh!?