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With a certain degree of shame, I must admit I have just watched the fight for free on YouTube.

Mayweather was utterly contemptuous of McGregor and just walked him down and battered him to a deserved stoppage. I thought McGregor was absolutely shit ..... terrible technique with powerless arm punches, confusion and ineptitude in the clinches and no tactical plan at all.

Mayweather was fit, fitter than McGregor which is a good achievement for a 40 year old with two years of inactivity behind him. His timing was really off and we didn't see that lightning fast straight right lead (one of the best weapons in boxing history), we didn't see any movement or ringcraft really. His composure under pressure was, as always, superb .... but being hit by Conor wasn't like being hit by a professional boxer. There was a big big difference in punch power between them both, and Floyd isn't a big puncher.

Floyd won by having a gameplan of making Connor be active for the full three minutes of each round (he never took a step back from the break, he was constantly standing right in front of McGregor and he made Connor lead off all the time). In the clinches, he either turned his back on McGregor, conning the ref into thinking he was being fouled, or he stuck his elbow right in McGregors face). He just ground him down and then battered him.

The only way McGregor could have won that fight was if Fan Man had parasailed into the ring and shot Floyd in the head.

McGregor is really a middleweight or super middle sized guy. Golovkin or Badou Jack would have genuinely killed this guy in the ring,

The most annoying thing was the commentators. I don't know who they all were, but one of them was Paulie Malignaggi. They were completely biased in their commentary, saying how great Conor was doing (when he was achieving fuck all) and bigging him up hugely.

Commentators are supposed to be giving expert unbiased analysis that you may not have noticed ..... not being complicit in a criminal con!
Paulie was probably trying to talk up Conor so that he could fight him next year. What a attention seeking whore who is no better than David Haye.