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Mayweather/McGregor Melee Motivated by Money
what I gave them.”
Mayweather was never in any jeopardy of
losing the fight. He knew that he wouldn’t
be ever since the rivalry with McGregor was
manufactured. Though passionate UFC fans
won’t like to admit it, even they knew that
their star had no chance in a boxing match
against one of the greatest to ever live. That-
-and the exorbitant ticket prices--was the
reason why the T-Mobile arena didn’t even
sell out for the fight. Mayweather, however,
was more than happy to end his retirement
after two years to collect one final exorbitant
paycheck for one hour of controlling what
may have been the easiest boxing match of
his entire career.
“Our game plan was to take our time,
go to him, let him shoot his shots early
and then take him out down the stretch,” a
calculated Mayweather explained post-fight.
Throughout the first three rounds of the match,
Mayweather landed a total of nine punches
to his opponent. In the 10th and final round
alone, Mayweather connected with nine shots
to the face of McGregor, forcing the referee
to jump between the two and end the fight
within the final minute of the round.
The only controversy surfacing from the
night was from McGregor and his fans claiming
that the referee stepped in to stop the
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By Adam Serrao
At the end of the day, what everyone in
the world knew would happen, happened.
The boxing match--or circus, if you prefer-
-between arguably the best boxer of all time
and a fighter who had never boxed professionally
for a day in his life ended in favor of the
former rather than the latter. Floyd “Money”
Mayweather, Jr. strategically allowed mixed
martial arts star Conor McGregor to come
at him early in the fight that took place last
Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las
Vegas. By the eighth round, McGregor was
gassed. It didn’t take long after that for the
fight to end by TKO in favor of Mayweather,
giving the two fighters what they had sought
after all along--the biggest payday in the
history of the sport of boxing.
Mayweather knew what he was doing
throughout the entirety of the boxing
match. That means purposefully letting
McGregor waste his punches on him in
order to make the fight more compelling
and entertaining to the audience--which has
been rare in Mayweather fights throughout
the years. “I think we gave the fans what
they wanted to see,” Mayweather said in
the ring after his victory. “I owed them for
the Pacquiao fight. I had to come straight
ahead and give the fans a show. That’s
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fight too soon. “Let the man put me down,”
McGregor stated after the fight with a plastic
cup full of whiskey in his hand. “That’s
fatigue, that’s not damage. Where was the
final two rounds? Let me walk back to my
corner and compose myself.” McGregor is
lucky that he got out of the ninth round, let
alone the 10th, while still on his feet. Because
of his self-proclaimed fatigue, he was unable
to defend himself against Mayweather, let
alone throw anything slightly resembling a
punch back. The referee stepping in “early,”
as they do in boxing when someone is getting
pummeled, did McGregor a favor. By
allowing him to leave the fight while still
(wobbling) on his own two feet, the ref not
only saved McGregor from the embarrassment
that would have surely happened two
seconds later of being knocked out cold on
the canvas, but also gave the first-time boxer
an excuse for what was already an inevitable
loss in the ring that night.
Despite the loss, McGregor is poised to
quadruple his net worth, which of course
was the plan from the outset for an event
that could be said to have been more of a
contest of promotional antics than anything
resembling a professional boxing match.
Mayweather, who knew that he would win
from the start, will likely be walking away
from the match with more than $300 million
for his one hour of work. That being said,
the fight was at least much more entertaining
than Mayweather’s previous bout against
Manny Pacquiao. And despite McGregor
never really having a chance at all, he still
lasted 10 entire rounds in the ring with
possibly the greatest boxer ever, showed a
ton of heart, and landed 30 more punches
(111) than Pacquiao (81) did in two fewer
rounds. Mayweather out-landed McGregor
130-60 in rounds six through 10 once the
former finally decided that it was time to box.
UFC fans are a pretty passionate bunch,
there’s no doubt about that. And despite
how easy it is to hate Mayweather for things
he has done out of the ring, this fight has
made it easy to appreciate the boxer that
he is inside of it because of his fighting
IQ. A fighter, who is normally defensive
by nature, won the match by attacking and
formulating a game plan against a bigger,
more aggressive opponent. In the end, the
fight concluded in a way that everyone knew
it would. Mayweather won, fans were entertained,
and the two participants who were
completely and solely motivated by money
made enough of it to set themselves up for
the rest of their collective lives.
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