Well, my expectations were pretty low.
Yeah, if anything, I was surprised by Conor's jab.
Absolutely true, I mean basically I just liked seeing something different as a nice ending to Mayweather's pro career, and his not-giving-a-fuck approach to McGregor as a challenger, but then objectively it was a shit performance and for those looking forward to Mayweather putting on a clinic and showing the skill disparity in a way that would be blindingly obvious to casuals, it was disappointing on that end.
The broadcast I was watching was infuriating to listen to. They had a boxing guy, and MMA guy, and a main commentator guy was a brain dead moron who didn't know anything about fighting. He kept talking about how Floyd was too defensive and making it a boring fight while Floyd was walking forward and throwing straights to the body as he spoke. The boxing guy didn't say anything probably because he knew this was a shit show anyway. The MMA guy was the one making insight comments once in awhile. Korean commentators are some of the worst. Would much rather listen to Joe Rogan's pot head analysis.
I feel that Mayweather was either showcasing his chin or/and not respecting Conor's power, but maybe I'm reaching. He did move like shit, though.
Yeah I agree in terms of not respecting McGregor's power, and basically not respecting him as a serious threat. I feel like it's an ego thing, like he didn't respect McGregor's game, and it was more appealing for him to stand in front of McGregor and prove that he can't do anything to him even as Mayweather's standing toe to toe, rather than giving him the respect of actually Mayweather working him out and playing it slow and picking him apart more sensibly. I get that sense too from Mayweather's sparring videos they'd released over the last several years where he's just beating people up, that in those he doesn't give enough shits to actually put the effort in to move around properly, like he won't give those guys that much respect and would rather just show he can boss it from wherever as a matter of pride and ego.
You sound like you don't really know but are assuming this.
I watched it in HD today and not low quality stream, under the clear light of day, and I take back what I said and now I agree with you completely, lol. Earlier I said that Mayweather took risks in fighting like how he did even though he was never in real danger, but there was 0 "risk" whatsoever as McGregor was clearly dead in the water from the 4th onwards and only threw pitter patter slaps from then on. Mayweather obviously had no respect for him and felt he could boss it just literally walking towards McGregor, while grinning and winking at people in the audience, and letting McGregor wing punches while hardly throwing himself, and he dominated the fight even with that shit. Even still just doing that, if he'd at least thrown more punches and combinations and brought more intensity to it, he could have definitely gotten the job done two or maybe three rounds sooner.
You weren't saying that when the Lomachenko fight fell through.
He holds a win over Lomachenko though. Sort of a different story.
