I'm Irish too, I am on Floyd KO in the 1st round...

I think most boxing fans in the thread would readily admit MMA does things a million times better in terms of getting fans to see fights they want . We blow our load when once every three years 1 and 2 in a division actually fight each other it's pathetic . I don't think boxing will ever be more than a niche sport again and certainly the odds of an American heavyweight bringing it back to the limelight are incredibly low since only a ****** would focus on boxing when they could play football . The Mexicans don't really have any other sport beside soccer so we will always have them at the lower weight fortunately

I am not paying a dime for this fight tho because I don't want Floyd to have the satisfaction of laughing his way to the bank on 1/5000000 of my dime for a horrendous fight. I would have considered it if the undercard was good but once again boxing puts on a **** undercard unlike UFC which usually has a lot better fights

Why would a guy who could box at the absolute highest level play football instead? If you're capable of being the best heavyweight boxer in the world you will make more money and have lower injury risk boxing than you would playing football. It also allows you to live a more flexible lifestyle since you can set your own fights.

Great example of my point.

I have Floyd as a ~96% fave. That factors in things like injury, chicanery, and the unimaginable happening.

I've been the most level headed hater of Conor on his rise up. Most often is me citing him calling Siver a Nazi, he also stole his look from a Canadian model fwiw. He largely earned my respect when he took on Mendes on short notice tho.

I thought his fights against Aldo and Alvarez were coin flips, and I slightly favored Aldo.

You don't read anything anyone writes, you just want this to be a YouTube comment section.

Is this a joke?

How many millionaire football players are there?

How many small decisions (opportunity costs) does a guy have to make to find out that he's capable of being the best HW boxer in the world?

False, nice try though.

This thread is a joke for a multitude of reasons. Sorry you're so butthurt. Just please keep on pounding Conor, boys.

That's prbly the better post to quote.

You've already said you're not betting bc you fear Conor winning bc it's boxing. Lol you above all else.

That is not what I said. I am not betting everything I have because LOLBOXING. I am going to bet a few units on FMJ closer to the fight. Good luck to you, sir.

I also have already booked a few bets with local MMAbros laying 3-1 on FMJ. LOL

TY, same to you. I truly am rooting for CM, I just think it's going to be almost impossible for him to win.

You're right, I stand corrected.

Good luck. You're going to win, but everybody be watching.

I mean it's not like 7 year olds make conscious decisions about what sport they are going to focus on and become experts at. If they did you'd have a lot of NFL cornerbacks and WRs playing Euro Soccerball, as it's clearly a much much better sport to play than football. But those guys grow up playing real football and basketball, because that's what they see on TV. So, sure, lots of NFLers could probably have been great boxers and make more money, but that's not the sport they grew up playing so it's too late.

Also it seems like in football expert skill is less important than in soccer or boxing and athleticism is paramount. You have a guy like Sam Shields (insane athlete, ran like a 4.25 40, 39" vert and 6.8 3 cone drill) who was a bad wideout at Miami, spent his senior year playing corner, and ended up being a star corner for the Packers. That sort of thing just doesn't happen in boxing or soccer.

Damn dawg, thought we were cool. Coming at me from a pretty awkward angle here.

He was saying only a ****** would focus on boxing though. If you were good enough to be ~the best heavyweight in the world you'd be a ****** to play football even if you were going to be the best defensive player in the league.

I know plenty of people choose sports for other cultural reasons, but choosing boxing over football is the opposite of ******ed if you're that good and thinking of it as an active choice.

Its smarter to choose football if you're going to be the 5000th best player in the world at either sport though, but if you're the top of the top boxing is more lucrative and flexible and less dangerous.

Don't use "******" as a pejorative man, that's not cool

I agree that American Football is stupid. Good post.

[QUOTE=CalledDownLight;52687262]He was saying only a ****** would focus on boxing though. If you were good enough to be ~the best heavyweight in the world you'd be a ****** to play football even if you were going to be the best defensive player in the league.

I know plenty of people choose sports for other cultural reasons, but choosing boxing over football is the opposite of ******ed if you're that good and thinking of it as an active choice.

Its smarter to choose football if you're going to be the 5000th best player in the world at either sport though, but if you're the top of the top boxing is more lucrative and flexible and less dangerous

Yes sure if you knew with 100% certainty you would be heavyweight championship of the world some day thenokay box no **** . I'm not gonna go semantikes with you here . Everyone knows what I mean. There are hundreds of football players making millions that are that big and athletic and 10> American boxers with the added bonus that someone failing at boxing won't know until they may be like 28 whereas failing at pro football often means college degrees

I'm pretty sure there has not been one American heavyweight who has made 10 mill in the last ten years or so unless I'm forgetting someone ...

You are arguing the validity of what Schaub said. I wasnt putting his arguement forward as fact, just saying that even one of the most vocal of Conor's supporters is putting his ceiling at winning a few rounds/not getting KO'd.

No, Schaub said that Connor wins rounds, plural, at a minimum. And he thinks the idea that Floyd KOs Connor is ludicrous. And he thinks that Connor can KO Floyd, so much so that he thinks 5 or 6-1 is a good bet on Connor.

So he's setting a floor of Connor winning multiple rounds, that Floyd cannot possibly KO Connor, and that Connor absolutely can KO Floyd. Don't understate Schaub's moderate-to-severe brain damage.

Conor media workout now live on Showtime's youtube channel

cliffs so far:

man, Helen Yee is delicious

Ive seen/heard Schaub on a decent amount things i watch since the fight was announced. Some he goes further than others but his general thing is he talks about wanting to bet Kellerman on saying that Conor wont land a punch, wanting to bet that Conor would win a round and wouldnt be suprised to see him win multiple rounds and that if there was to be a KO in the fight he would bet that it would be Conor with the KO.

She doesn't have the angles Conor has

oh ffs