Mayweather vs McGregor Post Fight TnS #50 – The TnS Podcast hits episode #50 and this one is dedicated to last weekend’s Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor PPV fight.
So, the so-called “superfight” went down and at the end of the day, Mayweather Jr logged his 50th professional win against zero defeats fighting a novice. McGregor deserves credit for his effort but it was clear his boxing level topped off somewhere in the mid-range. This showed up in two very noticeable spots. First of all, the devesating striker McGregor was reduced to doing a lot of point boxing and slapping because he doesn’t hit very hard with this footwork. McGregor had improved his MMA conditioning heading into the second Nick Diaz fight but that type of conditioning where ground fighting is involved did not prepare McGregor for twelve rounds of boxing.
McGregor was tired and in the last round the referee stepped in because McGregor was simply not defending himself. He was too gassed and at times he was having trouble keeping his balance. There was Floyd Mayweather, to quote McGregor with “his little legs” and his “little head” but Floyd finished McGregor with his first real burst of sustained offense once McGregor had done all the work for the first half of the fight.
The undercard to the Mayweather vs McGregor fight was an all-boxing affair that saw a lot of “The Money Team” fighters on the card. No fighters really took advantage of the showcase except for new WBO world light heavyweight champion Badou Jack. Jack was stepping up in weight class to face England’s Nathan Cleverly, who held the WBO world belt at 175 pounds after a strong win in Germany over long time champion Jurgen Brahmer. Cleverly was confident that Jack was going to feel the difference at the new weight class but it was Cleverly who folded under Jack’s pressure. Jack improved his average punch output per round to around 90, which is extraordinary considering he was known as a methodical fighter before. Jack was devestating in taking out Cleverly.
The numbers are still coming in for the pay-per-view sales, but if the take at the Las Vegas betting houses is any indication, they will be big. Sin City is reporting that this fight took in more betting money than and previous fight in history. The lines was up at the books before the fight was even official and once the two men signed on the dotted line, the official line saw Mayweather open around a -1000 favorite. Money came in steadily on McGregor and once the fight went down McGregor had narrowed the line, leaving Mayweather about a -400 favorite. If McGregor had somehow pulled off the upset, it would have been a bad day for the casinos.
The PPV was $100 or so and CNN is reporting that Showtime is being sued by a group of consumers who had problems with their live feed. One thing is for sure, there were tons of illegal streams and MANY people saw the fight without paying. The record for a combat sports pay-per-view stands at 4.4 million buys, and that was the 2015 fight between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
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