Which two matches are you most looking forward to?

  • Floyd 'Money' Mayweather Jr vs Conor McGregor

    Votes: 96 73.8%
  • Gervonta 'Tank' Davis vs Francisco Fonseca [IBF Junior Lightweight Title Match]

    Votes: 22 16.9%
  • Nathan Cleverley vs Badou Jack [WBA Light Heavyweight Title Match]

    Votes: 10 7.7%
  • Andrew Tabiti vs Steve Cunningham [USBA Cruiserweight Title Match]

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Shawn Porter vs Thomas Dulorme

    Votes: 6 4.6%
  • Canelo is putting the beats on GGG Sept 16th stay tuned

    Votes: 39 30.0%
  • GGG is putting the beats on Canelo Sept 16th stay tuned

    Votes: 17 13.1%

  • Total voters
    130
  • Poll closed .

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I've seen him trying to do Floyd's shoulder roll. Van Heerden mentioned it as well. I will say that sparring session is overrated as fukk. They just looked like they were playing around. I wonder if Dana will ever release that Paulie footage.

Why, when that's probably zuffas boxing first boxing event coming to ppv
 

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how do you stop a takedown with your hands up ?
pivoting while throwing check hooks? Uppercut and slide? punching while moving backwards? more the first and last ones I'd imagine the uppercut + slide is hard to pull off

I'm not exactly an MMA head but I know that going for a takedown leaves you wide open to any kind of head punches. If someone has serious punching power you better think twice before you try to rush him like that. If the other can counter you then you pretty much rushed right into the punches without anything to defend your head which can result in an easy KD...
 

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Thats a wrestler tho. He probably expected to get tackled like he was getting that whole fight. He seems to get lazy and dumb when he gets tired doe.

That wrestler still managed to see Conor pivots when he punches and repeatedly stepped in to smother him while countering :manny:
 

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Boxers are known for their chins, Mayweather took hard shots from Mosley are it and dominated the rest.


All these white people talking about how hard Conor hits, meanwhile ESPN Sport Science showed he and Mayweather have around the same punching force despite Floyd being smaller and Floyd hits as hard as Nate Diaz who is 170lbs :dead:
 

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SOMETHIN REAL FO YO ASS IN THESE HANDS!!!!
Streams were up for May-Pac, we'll be good

Just need to make sure that come fight night you've already got a reliable stream from this thread before the main event so you can dip, Coli servers are gonna be bananas and this thread will be heavily populated
good advice; I was making sure to start checking on it now, so i ain't ass out come tomorrow night
 

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For the brehs that know about striking, Conor will obviously operate out of the Karate stance and range, what are the pros and cons of him doing this? Also, what should Floyd do to combat this?
 

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For the brehs that know about striking, Conor will obviously operate out of the Karate stance and range, what are the pros and cons of him doing this? Also, what should Floyd do to combat this?

Straight ahead to the body. One thing that I think Floyd will do is force Conor to fight from a range he's uncomfortable with. That's up close. If he operates from a karate stance, that's too far away to hit anything and his punches will be telegraphed.
 

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Straight ahead to the body. One thing that I think Floyd will do is force Conor to fight from a range he's uncomfortable with. That's up close. If he operates from a karate stance, that's too far away to hit anything and his punches will be telegraphed.
I don't think a karate stance is effective in a pure boxing match. The body is too exposed. It should be interesting though.

Unlike the Pacquiao fight, this fight will be interesting purely based on how Conor approaches the fight.
 

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Firstly, I think Shane can see the future with glasses. And you hear see the wear of the sport in Shane's speech

He wasn't like this four years ago

He should have retired after the Floyd fight

Watching this and his interviews on FS1 made me cry

Shane is only going to get worse
 

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Damn salute to. Michael rappaport for calling out McCac for biting biggies and Floyd's style and schooling him about calling black people in America:leon:
McGregor has said he took from every culture. Rappaport is annoying as fukk. He also told Kap not to knee cuz it was 9/11. Fukk him
 
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