OT: Mcgregor VS Mayweather

[Exhibitman]

Onslaught? Puhleeze... Mayweather is one of the best counter punchers and defensive boxers alive. World class boxers who've trained all their lives haven't been able to touch him. He will win every round going away and it will be dullsville

[iwantitiwinit]

If MacGregor gets back up to 10 to 1 I might have to put a few hundred down playing for a lucky punch.

[packs]

The only luck you're going to get fighting Mayweather is maybe he'll be sick that day and won't be able to fight.

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by packs

The only luck you're going to get fighting Mayweather is maybe he'll be sick that day and won't be able to fight.

You probably would have said the same about Tyson before the Buster Douglas fight. While of course the odds favour Mayweather.... ANYTHING can happen.

[packs]

Well a big difference that jumps out at me between the Douglas fight and this one is that Douglas was a professional boxer.

[Huysmans]

Well apparently it doesn't "jump out" for most, as the odds are better in McGregor's favour then they were for Douglas.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Huysmans

Well apparently it doesn't "jump out" for most, as the odds are better in McGregor's favour then they were for Douglas.

It's all name recognition. There was no hype leading into the Tyson / Douglas bout. Most didn't really know who he was at the time, and those deep in the sport who did, saw him as a talented boxer who had for the most part under-achieved in his career up until that point.

Odds in combat sports can be swayed by regional and popularity bias's. Years ago Bernard Hopkins was an underdog to Felix Trinidad. An idea that was kind of absurd to hardcore boxing fans, and in hindsight even more absurd........ but Trinidad had the bigger name and the bigger following at the time, which drove the betting.

Casual fans thought it was a huge upset when it happened. I was at a fight party and one guy declared it "up there with Tyson / Douglas", and I just shook my head. LOL!

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by packs

Well a big difference that jumps out at me between the Douglas fight and this one is that Douglas was a professional boxer.

And the number one contender at the time, not exactly a fringe professional.

[packs]

Originally Posted by Huysmans

Well apparently it doesn't "jump out" for most, as the odds are better in McGregor's favour then they were for Douglas.

I think most people know that Buster Douglas was a professional boxer and Connor McGregor is not.

[bxb]

I would be surprised in McGregor lasts more than one minute, unless Mayweather deliberately extends it.