He's completely dry at 145lbs, he looks really sick with the weight cut bro, that's the reason he moved up to 155lbs & still looked like a decent sized guy for the weight class right away.


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^^ That guy who's 6feet tall & weighs 183lbs on fight night competes at 155lbs in the ufc, ufc fighters just take weight cutting way too far hence why conors optimal weight is between 154-160 if he was to box atleast.

His mental toughness was actually on display when he could've easily said i'm going to wait for RDA to heal from injury & make history fighting & winning the 155lb title at a later date but instead on 2weeks notice fought a guy 20lbs heavier, taller & longer & is a horrible match up for me. Then lose & do immediate rematch at the same weight & then beat him.

That pic of Sage Northcutt isn't just before he's about to hop on a scale for the weigh in right? I see some training equipment in the background, so it could be after getting a nice pump from recently slanging around some weights.

Perhaps when thinking about optimal weights and size advantages, the ability to cut lower and rehydrate higher without noticeable repercussions is an attribute in itself, and so varies from body type to body type, and perhaps even diminishes with age.

Conor does look a little unhealthily thin perhaps, but he handled it well. Because his performances at 145 were good, and he rehydrated well, I don't think the optimal weight is too far off from that. But for the moms of the world and reports of some difficulties getting there...I added a whole 7 lbs and gave an estimate of 152

RT and another guy had expressed some concern that there may be people free rolling for e-peen status points.

^^ that's northcut weighing in at 155lbs, dude is 6ft tall as well & is legit probably as big as Andre ward who fights at 175lbs in boxing. The weight helps more due to the wrestling aspect of mma though, Conor's nutrionist says he actually wants Mcgregor to get to as close to 154 as possible for him to be faster, more agile as it's better for boxing rather than trying to be as heavy as possible for mma. I mean i guess 154-155lbs could be Conor optimal weight but just think he would have no problem size wise at 160.

This is probably the best scenario for a Conor win. Floyd is taking it easy on Conor, realizing that the real money is in a rematch. Then he gets caught. Likelihood is small, but still there.

I still don't see the Floyd taking a dive angle. Floyd being 50-0 would cement his legacy and he'd never have to step in a ring again. He seemed happy to be retired.

Think it's more likely Floyd takes Conor too lightly like Aldo did if Floyd were to somehow lose.

i could see a "disqualification" with a lot of drama after two or three "close" rounds, 7 million ppv buys for the rematch

I don't see the Russian angle here.

I have to admit that I still think MMA is a pseudo-sport for steroid inflated guys too small to make it in WWF, so it's hard to take its champ very seriously.

Assume this is a troll, but.. UFC has some of the strictest drug testing In sports and these guys are considered the best fighters on the planet.

My money would be on any UFC middleweight champ+ vs any WWE guy of any weight, baring Brock who's done a bit of both..

Just multiple hall of fame legends in various weight classes.

In massively liquid markets mass donk money has the biggest effect. Sharp money might come in large late and move it a bit but it is overwhelmed by the volume of the masses.

Boxers cut weight too. Usually not as extreme however there are plenty of examples of it. You think Andre Ward walks around at 175? No its probably 200.

Boxers will cut a ton of weight for the official weigh-in and then put it back on immediately after.

Just by eating and re-hydrating they can put on 10 to 15 pounds between the weigh-in and the first round.

One could argue you just don't know anything about boxing. See how that works?

Yeah, all bums.
FMJ Fights

Agreed. His ego is too massive to lose on purpose methinks.

True story. Keep on keepin' on, CM fanboys!!!!

I see the argument that CM backers are freerolling in a way, but I'd argue that most FMJ backers are hedging their misery as I like to call it. If he wins (most likely outcome LDO) we win money, if he loses, we get to see the prick finally get his comeuppance. Win/win iyam.

We'd lose lots of money but we'd have witnessed history. I wouldn't even care about having been proved so wrong at that point it would be such an absurd moment in sporting history.

I have zero issue with losing what I've put on his if it means I can watch Floyd put to sleep.

Bingo. I'm betting just enough to win a couple units, nothing more. GO CM!!!

I'm just relaying what I've heard from more knowledgeable people, but the effect of mass donk money is in general apparently massively overstated.

Also, surely the vast majority of donk money comes in late too?

In the movie Casino, Robert De Niro's character had a job as a sports handicapper for the Casinos. I suppose such a person would set the opening lines.

Do you guys think Casinos and sports books gamble themselves by taking a lot of 1 sided action, thus having an unbalanced book and putting themselves at risk?

Yes, never found a bookie that stops taking action because it's all going on one horse (worked in one for over a year too and have seen the liabilities for individual events).

ummmm yes, of course they do. Do you really believe the myth that books try to balance all their action?

I was looking for feedback. It wasn't a rhetorical question.

joejoe's reply sounded sufficient.

Boxing aficionados can certainly get trolled pretty easily in this thread. This thing is gonna be epic on fight night.