Re: mcgregor v mayweather
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Originally Posted by
sneggyblubird
Hyped like a wrestling match.In my time the bigger the hype the bigger the disappointment.It'll be something else in 12 months,the next biggest thing since time began.
It will be choreographed like a wrestling match too
Re: mcgregor v mayweather
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Originally Posted by
sneggyblubird
Hyped like a wrestling match.In my time the bigger the hype the bigger the disappointment.It'll be something else in 12 months,the next biggest thing since time began.
Twelve months? I'd say a fortnight is more realistic.
Is what I hear about ringside seats costing $100,000 true? We live in strange, strange times. I'll go to sleep on Saturday night and probably learn what happened sometime around lunchtime on Sunday - not interested in this money making episode in the slightest. Great sport sells itself because of the sport, it doesn't need all of the increasingly common bollox beforehand to build it up - as you say, the bigger the hype, the bigger the disappointment.
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Anyone else as gobsmacked as I am that Ali has been mentioned in the same breath as this pair?
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Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
Twelve months? I'd say a fortnight is more realistic.
Is what I hear about ringside seats costing $100,000 true? We live in strange, strange times. I'll go to sleep on Saturday night and probably learn what happened sometime around lunchtime on Sunday - not interested in this money making episode in the slightest. Great sport sells itself because of the sport, it doesn't need all of the increasingly common bollox beforehand to build it up - as you say, the bigger the hype, the bigger the disappointment.
The media always take prices from third parties like viagogo etc and say "this is what they're going for" "what an amazing price, what a spectacle, go buy the fight on TV".
It is an easy way to write some articles as well:
https://www.stubhub.com/floyd-maywea...nk=1&byo_qty=2
But that isn't what they are actually being sold for is it
With that money imagine how many champions leagues, world cup finals, season tickets to real madrid barca bayern etc you could get!
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Originally Posted by
TH63
Anyone else as gobsmacked as I am that Ali has been mentioned in the same breath as this pair?
Well, Ali was the template for all of the crap we get in the build up to fights these days I suppose. However, although someone like Joe Frazier never really forgave him for some of the things that were said before their three fights, Ali's efforts to sell tickets for his fights tended to have a bit of wit and style about them and they did feel fresh and novel at the time - it's all so tired and formulaic these days.
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Originally Posted by
Blooburd
yeah I hate entertainment in sports too! that Mohammad Ali was such an annoying sportsman!
why cant these fighters just queue up emotionlessly like snooker players do before a match huh!
This fight will be more about the build up than the fight though. McGregor isn't a boxer, so Mayweather can box off the back foot and pick him off.
Ali, they are not.
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Originally Posted by
J R Hartley
So mugs like you will fork out the money to watch it.
That's generally why people try to entertain...y'know to get people to watch them :easy:
I voted no to watching it, I don't pay that kind of money for potentially 10 or less minutes of entertainment but to each their own.
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Pedro de la Rosa
This fight will be more about the build up than the fight though. McGregor isn't a boxer, so Mayweather can box off the back foot and pick him off.
Ali, they are not.
I did not say either one of them were actually Mohammad Ali :facepalm:
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Boxing is suffering because the biggest names avoid each other as they try to build up a record and try to talk their way into the biggest money deal. The fights then don't live up to the hype. Has it always been like this?
Mayweather and McGregor care more about money than the sport so don't be surprised to see McGregor throw in a UFC kick, get disqualified and set up round two.
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Originally Posted by
surge
Boxing is suffering because the biggest names avoid each other as they try to build up a record and try to talk their way into the biggest money deal. The fights then don't live up to the hype. Has it always been like this?
Mayweather and McGregor care more about money than the sport so don't be surprised to see McGregor throw in a UFC kick, get disqualified and set up round two.
If that kick is a surprise roundhouse to the head, id pay to see it
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This farce has hit a new low. James fecking Cordon has turned up!!!!!
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I ain't no idiot. Are there any streams?
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Wales-Bales
I ain't no idiot. Are there any streams?
haha my thoughts exactly
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I have no interest in watching a pair of wankers be wankers, watched by wankers.
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McGregor in the 3rd round.
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Originally Posted by
Rocco Siffredi
If MacGregor loses his head, not literally, I can see him chucking in a few kicks and other illegal moves. Could be really funny.
He won't as it's written into the contract that he will lose his entire purse with any MMA moves.
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Spooky Tree
I have no interest in watching a pair of wankers be wankers, watched by wankers.
Summed up my feelings perfectly.
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Originally Posted by
Hilts
This farce has hit a new low. James fecking Cordon has turned up!!!!!
Shame he wasn't in the ring. I'd pay good money to see him getting knocked out.
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This is going 12 rounds because the longer it goes the more money mayweather makes it's a ****ing joke
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jamieccfc
This is going 12 rounds because the longer it goes the more money mayweather makes it's a ****ing joke
how does that work.
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qccfc
how does that work.
Someone on the radio the other day explaining the money he will make from the adverts between rounds so the longer the fight the more adverts =More wonga for that Kent, don't get me wrong he's a good boxer but nowhere near the level that's in his head
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I'm in France when it's on, but if I were here I'd probably be splitting the £20 fee with a few mates, or going to bed early & waking up at 5am to watch a stream on my laptop in bed.
Just as an event it should be extremely interesting. All the pundits seem to have opinions, but the whole thing is an absolute unknown so they count for nothing.