Mayweather will earn $350 million from this bout. Don’t you think he would feel incentivized to somehow set up an outcome that leads to a rematch? That is my prediction. Either he loses, fights such that it goes the distance, or allows McGregor to pull some brawling, illegal stunt with the associated controversy.
“The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting.....”
I don’t really understand sports betting, but I would think that all this money on McGregor would cause the odds to change quite a bit. I don’t think bookie make money by picking the right winners or losers, but by having a relatively equal amount on both sides, and making money off the juice from the losers.
One reason the excitement for this bout may be subdued is because Mayweather, at 40 years old is such a known quantity.
It also doesn’t help that at most press meetings, McGregor is wearing a three piece suit looking like a banker or Maitre di.
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The stock market and boxing are identical. Fixed.
McGregor has already won the fight...he’s a MMA fighter getting paid seven figures to box.
He even has his next fight lined up...a ranked boxer who McGregor knocked down during a 12 round sparring match is demanding a shot at him.
The Irish loudmouth has a puncher’s chance. The 40 year Mayweather could walk into a wild punch and get knocked out. I doubt it’ll happen but stranger things have happened, especially with that kind of money involved. No one gave Leon Spinks a chance to beat Ali, but it did. Then Ali got the chance to fight him again and become the only fighter to win the title for the third time. He completely destroyed Spinks, which makes me think the first fight was a set-up. I also remember an unknown name Buster Douglas knocking out Tyson. And I remember Marvin Hagler beating Leonard then getting rob’s of the decision. But in a fight between a real boxer and an MMA fighter the MMA fighter can’t kick and wrestle so he loses. In Mayweather’s case you can’t hit him, so like I said the Irish loudmouth has no shot unless Mayweather walks right into a haymaker, sort of like the punch that Hagler used to knock out Hearns, who turned his face for a split second, didn’t see the punch coming and was knocked out cold.
Which is why this stunt is happening.