ONE: Boxing remains the combat sport platform par exccellence for big events and purses. MMA, Mixed Martial Arts, under which boxing should fall -- is not nor will ever be, that vehicle.
TWO: It was actually much like Archie Moore vs Mike DiBiase. Except Moore didn't wait 8 rounds to start throwing leather. "On March 15th 1963, Archie Moore "The Mongoose" an utmost pugilist of the ages, fought his final bout. It was a victorious swan-song, ended in round three of a scheduled 10 whenst Ref. Dick Moll stepped in and ended it. The professional wrestler Mike DiBiase, had enough. He also had a nasty cut 'round his eye. Took a helluva shellacking. Moore went out on lop-sided cross-genre'd mismatch top." (
Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor Prediction)
THREE: Mayweather performed la Michael Jordan in a Wizards uni. Well beyond his sell-by date. Funny how we spent our sunrise and sunset in diapers. Funny too, how talent is seen in each, it's just the trigger can't be easily pulled. Trigger-pulling zeniths are career zeniths, gentlepersons. Bupkis more, bupkis less.
FOUR: The first three rounds looked like a pro sparring with an amateur. Which is what it was, in essence. It just smacked me then how much-so. I thought the fans would riot if it lasted much longer. Mayweather was allowing him to throw awkward punches, splitting and dissolving his own guard. Meanwhile, a rookie McGregor was "battering" Mayweather's guard.
FIVE: McGregor threw an awful lotta hammer punches. I thought there were strict repercussions had he slipped into MMA attacks. Will we hear more re: this? I believe the purse would be held up, as well as other even more brutal punishments, had they be deemed mandated.
SIX: A combination through and past mid-point of a stiff McGregor and carrying Mayweather made for pitter-pater head-hunting feeling outs, and the look of an overtly scripted fight. I do not believe it was. Why bother, quite simply?
SEVEN: Many are yelling the stoppage was early. McGregor looked sliced and diced at the ninth stanza's end. 'Twas a good stoppage -- but I feel they all are. Them punches hurt a lot less now and in the future, when yer yelling at the third man in the ring from yer beer spilt La-Z-Boy.
EIGHT: McGregor was gracious, ultimately, in his defeat. But was he brave and/or ballsy? Dunno. Not much punching power was threatened at him. Yet he did run the risk of looking rather silly. He didn't look "ratherly" so.
NINE: Many a time, McGregor looked like an amateur or bare-knuckle old turn of last century English pug. Or an extremely tall man hailing a cab; lead arm extended out and straight. But he switched the lead sometimes, and then he looked like a rock em sock em robot. Mechanical, plastic, squared, and stiff. Still somehow charismatic, tho. Ah, thems Irish eyes.
TEN: The genius of Mayweather the promoter, the fight maker. This was not only the only match he could win -- but he also made it the most lucrative. Hopefully lucrative 'nuff to keep the IRS at bay.
IN ADDITION:
I spoke to all this and more in my
"Dad, I Can Walk" Kaplowitz Radio: August 27. 2017 go. Please do give a listen, gentlepersons. Too, check in on what's coming up at
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