Some post fight thoughts:
Initially I thought the fight was stopped too soon, but after watching on replay it was stopped at the right time. Part of me really wanted to see Conor hit the mat. MMA fans need to realize that MMA and boxing are different. In boxing this was a very typical stoppage. If you are continually being hit with punches, they are landing clean, you have some level of being hurt, and you aren't returning offense, the fight will be stopped. By not fighting back you have in fact quit or shown you cannot continue under boxing rules.
For those MMA fans who wanted Conor to be given the chance to take more punishment and basically be forced to lose the fight by a KO, that is an old fashioned way of thinking. With what we know now about brain trauma and CTE, taking constant punishment to the head (even if it doesn't appear to hurt the person) is more dangerous than taking a single big shot. In football everyone is concerned about the one big shot that leads to a concussion...but it is being proven that the smaller continuous hits someone takes are far more damaging.
I still can never get over the fact how people convinced themselves that Conor was going to win the fight. I have a boxing co-worker who is a boxing fan and he new Conor was getting fukked up, but my other co-worker who was more in for the event itself and although he never said he was a McGregor fan, you could tell he knew more about Conor than McGregor and he kept saying he thought Mayweather would probably win, but he had to watch because there was just something about McGregor that gave him a lot of doubt Mayweather would win. I tried to school him a bit and realized the rationale behind how boxing works wasn't connecting and he was buying into the punchers chance and McGregor is a good athlete shyt. It was disgusting.