Floyd Mayweather is an incredible boxer.

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best boxers in the world

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He is for sure going to absolutely molly wop McGregor, but that little "what if" in the back of everyone's mind is just enough to make it interesting.

I'm sure a lot of the press conferences were somewhat scripted and dramatic, but I still feel like Floyd has expressed multiple times his age and how he's not the same fighter he used to be. Almost as if he's setting it up as excuses if he cant pull it off.

Connor's got him more nervous than initially anticipated. Should be a great fight for the first few rounds. Unless Connor lands a haymaker in rounds 1-3 or 4, Floyd out conditions him just like the Pacquiao fight.

That combo he dodged from Canelo Alvarez at 1:02 was insane. Canelo is an awesome fighter. Conor won't touch him.

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The only thing that can save boxing is two heavy weights emerging to walk to the middle of the ring and beat the shite out of one another. The small, fast, technical shtick has run its course.

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With the general public, hence the money, this is correct.

With boxing aficionados, not so much.

With boxing writers, it's a mixed bag because they realize that boxing needs money in order to survive but still appreciate a true technician.

Guys like Mayweather often are not disciplined enough to avoid the challenge to go toe to toe with guys to "prove" themselves. Got to give the guy props for avoiding that bait.

Guys with similar styles to Mayweather but a little more pop and a vocabulary go down as legendary. Think of a young Sugar Ray Leonard. The guy could slip punches like nobody and put a man on the canvas in a heartbeat. Of course that may just be my nostalgic recollection.

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Almost as if he's setting it up as excuses if he cant pull it off.

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or maybe he's he's tricking people into buying that line of thought so they can both get more money.
I think I'll go with that.

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The only thing that can save boxing is two heavy weights emerging to walk to the middle of the ring and beat the shite out of one another. The small, fast, technical shtick has run its course.

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Well AJ is the man to do it.

I still can't believe Floyd didn't make Conor at least come down to 150lbs. Seems like fighting at 155 will be an advantage to Conor. On the other hand I'm assuming that being smaller isn't quite the disadvantage in boxing that it is in MMA?

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What's funny about that?

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to further show how much of an idiot that guy is

As of his most recent fight in 2015, Mayweather has a record of 26 wins without a loss or draw in world title fights (10 by KO); 23 wins (9 KOs) in lineal title fights; 24 wins (7 KOs) against former or current world titlists; 12 wins (3 KOs) against former or current lineal champions; and 2 wins (1 KO) against International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees.

It's not like the man the man dodged competition