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That's the fun of Mayweather. Everyone looks like someone that can take him until they get in the ring with him. He's a great heel too. Obviously boxing is not dead and he's been great for the sport considering a huge amount of people watched.
Obviously boxing is not dead
A lot of the MMA people can't appreciate what they're seeing out there. The ignore the obvious differences in the two sports, and judge boxing based upon MMA criteria. I think it's just another issue with the short attention span generations.
Mayweather won in typical Mayweather fashion! Nothing specialSo What happened?
Mayweather won in typical Mayweather fashion! Nothing special
Boxing is fantastic if you love seeing a lot more strategy over action. MMA is much better if you prefer a combination, though favoring action, as much more is legal.
Entirely different crowds, most seem to favor the MMA style lately as its faster paced, myself included, doesn't make boxing bad by any means, but tonights showing certainly wasn't a $400m fight in my eyes.
I've never watched boxing in my life. Was it a knockout in the first round or something?
The money is irrelevant. The issue is the fight. Mayweather showed hes' still tough to pin down. Pacquiao seemed to show that time's caught up with him.
Boxing is fantastic if you love seeing a lot more strategy over action. MMA is much better if you prefer a combination, though favoring action, as much more is legal.
Entirely different crowds, most seem to favor the MMA style lately as its faster paced, myself included, doesn't make boxing bad by any means, but tonights showing certainly wasn't a $400m fight in my eyes.
You can only enjoy boxing after watching MMA if you're capable of appreciating what you're seeing, MMA is much easier to appreciate.
I'm not an MMA fan. I tried to develop a taste for it, but I just can't.
Pacquiao's size difference killed him. Fight wasn't fair from the start, 4 inch reach and 3 inch height difference favoring Mayweather. When both are equally talented, or at least very close, HUGE advantage to Mayweather.
He tried to be aggressive but the unfair size difference never allowed it to happen outside of 2 or 3 rounds he got Mayweather against the ropes. All Mayweather did was send a few jabs out and it kept Pacquiao and his style at bay for the entire night pretty much.
Christ everyone is at this fight. Brady, MJ, Gronk, Wahlberg, TO, hell even Floyd Mayweather .
He wasn't aggressive enough. He should have jumped in a bit more at the end. He is softer now. Guy on one of the networks says that he just isn't the same man he was when he started because he lives a softer life now. I think that's true.
Like I said, totally different styles, I'm younger, 26, I much prefer the pace of MMA fights over boxing, it can be a lot more reckless while still showing a bit of boxing's strategy, but I fully understand the appeal to boxing, it's just not for me, at least not on the same level as MMA.
He wasn't aggressive enough. He should have jumped in a bit more at the end. He is softer now. Guy on one of the networks says that he just isn't the same man he was when he started because he lives a softer life now. I think that's true.