Comments Thread For: NSAC Exec: No Reason Not To Approve Mayweather-McGregor

[The Big Dunn]

Canelo/Khan was nowhere near the mismatch on paper that this one is. Get real.

"On paper" is your way of trying to differentiate your belief Conor will get destroyed from the fact anyone with common sense knew Khan would get destroyed as well because he was smaller and had shown his chin couldn't withstand the punch of men 20-25lbs lighter than Canelo who lack his power and precision.

Men like Rosado, Kirkland and others get fights in Vegas when its well known they will bleed or get KTFO. Historically, older fighters with glorious pasts like Ali and Roy get sanctioned to fight when it is well known they will get destroyed.

Why would Vegas draw the line here?

[LockardTheGOAT]

"On paper" is your way of trying to differentiate your belief Conor will get destroyed from the fact anyone with common sense knew Khan would get destroyed as well because he was smaller and had shown his chin couldn't withstand the punch of men 20-25lbs lighter than Canelo who lack his power and precision.

Men like Rosado, Kirkland and others get fights in Vegas when its well known they will bleed or get KTFO. Historically, older fighters with glorious pasts like Ali and Roy get sanctioned to fight when it is well known they will get destroyed.

Why would Vegas draw the line here?

It was very unlikely but not astronomically so that Khan would lose. But he had a much better chance of beating Canelo than Conor has of beating Floyd.

Others have brought up that a potential opponent of Ward's was denied the right to fight him because of how much of a mismatch it would be, so... Yeah.

[The Big Dunn]

It was very unlikely but not astronomically so that Khan would lose. But he had a much better chance of beating Canelo than Conor has of beating Floyd.

Others have brought up that a potential opponent of Ward's was denied the right to fight him because of how much of a mismatch it would be, so... Yeah.

I disagree. We assume Conor will lose because he has never fought. That said, we know nothing about his ability to take a punch, his stamina, his punching power or his negatives. With Khan we knew all these things and it was easy to predict the outcome of the fight.

The difference is minimal 1% to .5%

That was more about the fact Ward/Murdock wasn't a revenue generator. Had it been, it would've been made IMO.

[LockardTheGOAT]

I disagree. We assume Conor will lose because he has never fought. That said, we know nothing about his ability to take a punch, his stamina, his punching power or his negatives. With Khan we knew all these things and it was easy to predict the outcome of the fight.

The difference is minimal 1% to .05%

That was more about the fact Ward/Murdock wasn't a revenue generator. Had it been, it would've been made IMO.

There are plenty of fights that aren't revenue generators that still get made lol.

And we don't know how Conor will do? We know he's not a professional boxer, we know he got seriously rocked just over a year ago by another non-professional boxer (Nate Diaz), and that's plenty of reason to think he won't stand a chance against the greatest defensive fighter in history who has gone undefeated (and relatively unscathed) across forty-nine different fights. Khan on paper had a shot of winning, albeit an unlikely one - We knew his hand speed and boxing skills would give Canelo some problems, the only question is whether he could keep it up for a full twelve rounds or not without getting hit by a KO shot. It was far more likely to me that he could have done that than the chance of McGregor taking out Floyd is.

[BattlingNelson]

Well, you make enough doing fantasy football so you will be ok. LOL.

I hear you but I can't see it. The pressure from the business community would be insane.

Lol. I had quite a few mojitos in Italy on you guys behalf.

[BattlingNelson]

I disagree. We assume Conor will lose because he has never fought. That said, we know nothing about his ability to take a punch, his stamina, his punching power or his negatives. With Khan we knew all these things and it was easy to predict the outcome of the fight.

The difference is minimal 1% to .05%

That was more about the fact Ward/Murdock wasn't a revenue generator. Had it been, it would've been made IMO.

I wouldn't approve a Conor vs Khan fight either.

[The Big Dunn]

There are plenty of fights that aren't revenue generators that still get made lol.

And we don't know how Conor will do? We know he's not a professional boxer, we know he got seriously rocked just over a year ago by another non-professional boxer (Nate Diaz), and that's plenty of reason to think he won't stand a chance against the greatest defensive fighter in history who has gone undefeated (and relatively unscathed) across forty-nine different fights. Khan on paper had a shot of winning, albeit an unlikely one - We knew his hand speed and boxing skills would give Canelo some problems, the only question is whether he could keep it up for a full twelve rounds or not without getting hit by a KO shot. It was far more likely to me that he could have done that than the chance of McGregor taking out Floyd is.

Its all in how you want to look at it. Its the difference between a 1% chance of winning and .5% chance of winning. Yes 1% is twice as much of a chance as .5%, but they both have a 99% chance of losing.

[LockardTheGOAT]

Its all in how you want to look at it. Its the difference between a 1% chance of winning and .5% chance of winning. Yes 1% is twice as much of a chance as .5%, but they both have a 99% chance of losing.

I'd describe Khan's chance of losing more like 80%, but whatever.