The **** are you talking about?

IT's been 100% promotion so far and 0% competition.

The fight isn't until August. You want them to have a dance off or a chess match during the promotional tour?

JFC

It's ****ing reeruned if you ask me. All these insults are meaningless and old. They continue to talk about money and only money. It's a ****ing joke and people are dumb enough to buy in. Gullible idiots.

I'm willing to bet they are good friends who text each other everyday

No reason to hate a guy that is helping you earn 75 mil plus.

Plus, this is McGregor's best chance at a win. His best chance is for him to get into Mayweather's head and have Mayweather do something out of his nature in the ring - like go blow for blow.

He was able to make at least a couple of his fights a bit easier to win by enraging his opponent to the point that they ignore their coach and do stupid shit when the bell rings.

I don't think that will be an issue with Mayweather, though.

Seems that most people understand this is hype and spectacle. They are enjoying it for what it is... entertainment. See the WWE thread.

Why can't you people have any fun?

Lomachenko could whip both these dudes' asses, even with the height and weight disadvantage.

I really hate the idiots on Facebook that are making this about race..

Spending $99 on a fake fight isn't fun. No belts are on the line, no reason for anyone to win because they'll get whatever they signed for. It's junk and scripted.

This is hideous

Yea this was the first time I watched one of their dumbass press conferences live, this reeks of shit

Faster? Faster than????

Faster, yes. Quicker, maybe not. :)

I think it's fun, and I think you're a debbie downer.

Floyd is 49-0. You don't think he has a "reason"?

Conor is as proud as they come. You don't think he has a "reason"?

Also - are you saying the fight is fixed?? Dumb.

Yeah it may be a tad ridiculous - but there's no doubt most all of us are curious about how it actually will turn out. Even us that think we alrdy know. I'll be watching.

This is hilarious...

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/g...=facebook-post

I think I may like Conor now.

I liked Mayweather SR's response: "“This is a boxing match. I don’t know what that got to do with no racists.”

Mayweather-McGregor press tour takes a turn for the worse, flops in New York
 

Recap.....

After two straight days of solid back-and-forth, the two put on their worst show yet

NEW YORK -- What a difference 24 hours can make in the life of an international world tour.
Just one day after Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor nearly brought the house down in Toronto during the second helping of their four-day promotional circus, cementing the belief that their Aug. 26 boxing match could shatter financial and pay-per-view records, Round 3 was a rousing dud.
After both fighters forced 13,165 fans inside Brooklyn's Barclays Center to wait 90 minutes before arriving fashionably late (after altogether skipping a scheduled scrum with reporters), Thursday's press conference left a bad taste in nearly everyone's mouth.

If Wednesday's visit north of the border was part rap battle and comedic roast, lighting social media on fire with the creativity of each verbal jab, this one was simply crude and profane for the sake of it with both fighters noticeably out of new material.

The crowd was so annoyed by the late start that (with the exception of UFC president Dana White) anyone not named Mayweather and McGregor who stood in front of the microphone was booed mercilessly. Once the fighters were finished trading crass insults -- typically centered upon sex, race and money -- it genuinely felt as if the already carnival fight had jumped the shark.

This one was more about props and deafening noise (made worse by an arena sound system which produced an annoying echo making it difficult to hear). In a fight already criticized as a money grab, this was a showcase of excess for all the wrong reasons.

McGregor (21-3 in MMA) eschewed the designer suits he wore to the first tour stops by entering the arena shirtless with a white mink coat (featuring a serpent on the back) and multicolored paisley pants. Mayweather (49-0, 26 KOs) wore jeans and his self-branded TMT sweatshirt and hat while draped in the Irish flag. Both fighters kicked things off with arguably the most intense staredown thus far in the tour.

But despite Mayweather making it rain with $1 bills and McGregor gyrating his hips in a sexual manner, it was pointless to choose a winner. While media members had fun Tuesday "scoring" their comedic face off by giving Mayweather a mythical victory in Los Angeles before McGregor rallied resoundingly the following day, this one was a draw.

Let's look at the six quotes which made the most noise.

1. McGregor on race: "Let's address the race [controversy]. A lot of media say I'm against black people. That's absolutely f--ing ridiculous. Do they not know I'm half-black? Yeah. I'm half-black from the belly button down. And just to show them that's squashed, here's a little present for my black, beautiful female fans. [He dances]"

2. Mayweather puts everything in perspective:"All y'all doing is putting money in my account," Mayweather said to McGregor after another crass interruption. "That's what I like."

3. McGregor explains wearing mink in the summer: "The coat is polar bear. I'm a cold c---. [Fans start booing.] F--- you. Do something about this polar bear I got on. Somebody stop me from walking around this place like I own it. I don't give it a f--- how hot it is outside. I'm still wearing this shit." McGregor turns to Showtime's Stephen Espinoza: "Hey weasel, tell those f--ing Showtime bitches to turn the air conditioning up. The champ's rocking polar bear tonight."

4 . Mayweather on McGregor's three losses by submission: "Twenty-one years. Five weight classes. And you choose a quitter? They say if you quit once, you'll quit twice. But three times? Oh, man. But I love my guy Dana White. He's a smart mother---er. Dana White pimping this bitch."

5. McGregor presents Mayweather with a musical gift: "I got Floyd a gift. This is Jay Z's new album '4:44.' I want you to take this, listen to it and learn. Learn how to build and maintain a real empire, not a fake empire. And when you're done with it, send it on to 50 [Cent]. And when you do, tell him Blanco sent ya."

http://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news...s-in-new-york/

You must not have known him before...

This is so ****ing stupid.

This

This pretty much sums up how I feel about this fight\

The promoting for this fight is actually making me less interested

Thanks for stopping by the thread and saying so... loser.

I'm so sick of the reeruned analogies. "If Clayton Kershaw had to play 1st base", If "Lebron and Steph played 1:1 where they can't shoot from more than 18 feet"... Jesus.

McGregor has got a 0% chance of winning.

I agree with others the whole thing is stupid. It's a joke of a fight. I have no idea who the current top boxing fighter is but that is who Mayweather should be fighting not McGregor.

But hey it's obviously going to be a big time seller so in that sense it'll be a success.

Never heard of him.

I'm sorry you like stupid ****ing things.

Jones vs Cormier 2 will be a FAR better fight than this, and that fight is in two weeks. Yet, that gets next to no press. Instead we get analysis on McGregor and mayweather shit talking and lonzo ball summer league coverage on what shoes he was wearing.

Is that guy amazing or what?

Never seen anything like it.

Wow, just watched some highlights.... dude is a beast.

No belt on the line makes it uninteresting. Just for fun, money and bragging rights. Theoretically dumbass Connor should have no chance against the money man. He's never lost to real boxers how could he lose to this schmuck.

Its hard to really see it as a legitimate fight. More of a sports entertainment quick cash grab match. I think the entertainment aspect will vanish before the first rd ends. People will quickly see that one guy knows how to box and the other is just an athlete from a different sport trying to box.

Its a boxing match with boxing rules with only one of the fighters with boxing experience and that boxer being one of the best of all time at boxing.

It might as well be Mayweather VS Tom Brady in a celebrity boxing match.

For any hope of competitiveness it needed to allow MMA rules, even then Floyd would still be favored, but there at least would be a "what if" factor.

Are there any non-midget fighters out there today? Anyone know what happened to the heavy weights?

Speaking of heavy weights if their was a heavy weight boxer with a uni brow he could be called The UNI BOMBER

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Only a fool spends $$ for pay per view. And this will be short lived for sure.

:rolleyes: You're dumb.

No Press? Jon Jones did 14 straight hours of Press today. You're an idiot.

best pound for pound fighter *boxer* in the world.

Have you not heard of ANTHONY JOSHUA????

Brock Lesnar vs Jon Jones (Jones reportedly walks around at 230ish)

Make it happen, Dana. They both said they'd do it.

You need your UFC cash cow superfight before you pack up your shit and leave.

One of the laws enforced by the MMA Gods: if you try to set up a superfight before the guy you are hoping to pump up wins his next fight, then the MMA Gods will punish you for your arrogance and **** your plans up.

Just like Diaz spoiled McGregor-GSP, the MMA Gods may decide to intervene and aid DC in his title defense.

Hell yeah.

What's with this Jones/Cormier shit? Does anyone really want to see Jones dominate Cormier again?

I miss the hype about Mike Tyson before he got knocked out by Buster Douglas and bit off Holyfields ear.

He may have had quick fights but damn he could throw a punch and you didn't care how quick the fight ended it just ended in an instant and it was worth it.


I don't give ****s what others say this is my opinion not yours. Mike Tyson was fun to watch back in the day.

No one was more exciting.

Add the unpredictability factor to his ko power and he was the absolute king

Anybody know a list of where they will be showing this? With or without cover? I know Amerisports in Ameristar will have it but they don't charge cover and it will be impossible to get a table unless you get there 5 hrs early. Only other place I know of is some bar in Liberty. Anything in JoCo or downtownish with cover to weed people out, having more space. Going to have about 8 of us.

The Irishmen is unpredictable and Mayweather is scared shitless because he aint' certain that Connor is going to take the dive.

I bet $1000 to my friends $100 that Mayweather wins. Easy money... I wish I knew you so I could take some of your money as well.

ROFL

I got plenty of money. So I don't give a **** about that. Regardless, Mayweather cant sleep at night, cause he's restless, because he's ****ing scared.

If you give them your money they win LMAO

Looks like the MMA Gods have come through and punished the UFC, just not in the way I expected.