EagererBeaver wrote: » I've always thought that McGregor won't fight again, regardless of the result but if he wins, which I don't think had a hope of happening, given the middleweight fight a few weeks later, you've got to think someone would see there's a lot of money to be made there.
Eyes Down Field wrote: » Canelo or GGG would kill Conor McGregor. That's not even funny. A boxing fight that might make sense for McGregor would be Malinaggi. Although I still see Conor losing a decision to an in shape, ready Paulie. At least it might be competitive.
wonderfullife wrote: » Maybe I'm being naive but if Dana is telling the truth about sending the footage of the entire spar to Showtime, do they actually trust Stephen Espinoza not to forward it to Floyd? I don't know. Something fishy is going on here. Either Dana is lying or Conor's gameplan is very different to how he fought against Paulie, because Conor would have to assume Floyd is getting that footage from Espinoza.
The Executive Vice President and General Manager of Showtime Sports reached out to Sporting News to clarify what happened. Espinoza said White wasn't involved with distribution of the sparring session video which was sent to the premium cable channel by McGregor's team and the reason no video wasn't used had nothing to do with protecting Malignaggi. "Dana’s misinformed here because we were dealing directly with Conor’s team on this," Espinoza told Sporting News. "We did not receive as Dana said, a ton of footage. We received a few short clips. Roughly a minute total which were provided by the Conor camp. We reviewed them and were very interested in using them and including them in “All Access”. "But it was a series of sort of spliced-together McGregor highlights, eight or nine seconds each. We didn’t want to use the whole thing. It was sort of repetitive. We were told if we didn’t use the whole segment as they edited it then we couldn’t use it at all. So in the end, Conor’s camp withheld permission for us to use it. Otherwise we definitely wanted to use it. There was no intent to protect Paulie. We just wanted to cut some of the clips because it was pretty redundant, repetitive stuff."
Outlaw Pete wrote: » Looks like Dana was lying:
wonderfullife wrote: » Out of interest, how many of the above list do you think could beat Floyd next weekend? 47 before have failed, do you see anyone on that list that you would put money down to beat Floyd?
Eyes Down Field wrote: » Maybe 1. Canelo has a shot, He's getting ready to fight GGG so although he has lost to Floyd before, He is now more experienced and has a better chance at success. But I wouldn't bet against Floyd losing to anybody, even now. An honorable mention would be Spence, He has a shot, but again I wouldn't have any real confidence to bet against Floyd.
wonderfullife wrote: » I think it's fair to say you don't give Conor any chance against any active top-level professional boxer so there's no point in really naming too many guys Personally I'd be more confident of Conor beating Canelo in boxing than beating Floyd but that's just a stylistic issue. A lot will depend on next week, I'll of course adjust my opinion on that if we see a comfortable Mayweather victory.
wonderfullife wrote: » "Pretty redundant, repetitive stuff"? I'm confident the footage they sent over was Conor pinging the face off Paulie, they hardly sent over bad moments of the fight, so Showtime are clearly spinning this in their own way. It's good news if there was "around a minute" of good clean footage of Conor landing on Paulie though.
wonderfullife wrote: » Ok and I know this is a thorny issue in here doing "MMA maths" but I suppose the follow-up question has to be: If Conor (somehow) wins next week, then you'd have to re-evaluate the assertion he couldn't beat any of the top 10 right? Like, you might still fancy other boxers to beat Conor but you'd have to at least give him a much better chance should he win. I guess what I'm trying to say is if he can beat Floyd, he surely has (at bare minimum) a solid chance against any elite boxer.
Eyes Down Field wrote: » If you think McGregor would have any chance against Canelo, Then you are seriously underestimating Canelo. I'm curious, What Canelo fights have you actually seen since his loss to Floyd?
Eyes Down Field wrote: » I don't know any sports where that logic has ever worked. If A beat B and C beat A, Then C should be able to beat B? That's not often how things work out.
hewhoscares wrote: » https://twitter.com/Ticket_IQ/status/898271893433847810 Ticket prices going down in an attempt to shift them. Looking like that record gate is unlikely.
wonderfullife wrote: » EDIT - Counted the upper bowl there's 846 tickets left and the lower bowl (expensive seats) has just over 1,000. That total number of ~1,800 includes resale tickets. That would put the current gate at $61.9 million already sold (ish). Even if they reduce the remaining ticket prices by 30% (and sell them) it would still beat the May-Pac gate record of $72.1 million. The narrative that ticket sales have been going poorly is a really strange one being used by people who want to dismiss the fight as a circus. The 2nd highest gate in boxing history was Canelo-Floyd and that was a $24 million gate. The highest gate in MMA history was Conor-Eddie $17.7 million. It's already a whopping success.
pastorbarrett wrote: » Noticed Ariel seems to think it's very much Nate 3 next for an MMA bout.
Effects wrote: » I doubt Conor would take the risk of two defeats in a row.
D.Q wrote: » I would absolutely love a third Nate fight.
Deedsie wrote: » maximoose wrote: » Eventually yeah I'd like to see it. Much prefer if Khabib/Tony(or even Lee now I suppose) came first. I don't get this, what right has khabib to a title/Conor fight. Ferguson should be top of the queue and I'd have lee ahead of khabib until he proves he can actually make weight.
maximoose wrote: » Eventually yeah I'd like to see it. Much prefer if Khabib/Tony(or even Lee now I suppose) came first.
dulux99 wrote: » Looks like Mayweather is going to trade at 1/3 today, with him winning by stoppage as short as 3/4 in places - that'll probably soon be evens. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd see Mayweather via stoppage at Evens
Deedsie wrote: » I don't get this, what right has khabib to a title/Conor fight. Ferguson should be top of the queue and I'd have lee ahead of khabib until he proves he can actually make weight.
The Nal wrote: » Conors next fight will be the winner of the Ferguson/Lee fight at UFC 216. Unless he plans on dropping the belt. McGregor will want no part of Ferguson or Khabib if he ever gets the fight.
