Floyd Mayweather admits to carrying Conor McGregor?
While UFC Lightweight champion Conor McGregor has been taking shots at fellow MMA fighter Max, “Blessed” Holloway, the only man to KO McGregor, has been sounding off on social media as well.
Fight Hype saved video of Floyd calling Oscar De La Hoya a “hypocrite” and saying he “carried” McGregor to the tenth round of their August boxing bout to “make it look good.”
“Everybody tried to protest the Mayweather-McGregor fight, right? But I’m gonna tell y’all the truth, I’m gonna tell y’all the truth. You know I carried McGregor. You know I made it look good for y’all.”
His words succinctly addresses the two major criticisms leveled at Floyd for the McGregor fight. From the boxing fans came cries that Mayweather should not even deign to step in the ring with Conor, that he would humiliate boxing by competing against an MMA fighter in his boxing debut. Loudest among these voices was Oscar De La Hoya, who after the fight announced that he had been “secretly training” and would come out of retirement to box Conor.
From the MMA side, fans responded to the fight noting that even though McGregor got stopped by Floyd, he actually landed more punches against Mayweather than many other skilled opponents, including future Hall of Fame boxers Miguel Cotto, Manny Pacquiao, and Shane Mosley.
To this, Floyd responds that it was all by design, and that he let Conor into the tenth round to put on a good show.
The truth here is probably, as it often is, somewhere in the middle. Although Conor did land a significant number of punches against Floyd, the number does not suggest that Conor has elite boxing skill, or that he would beat boxers who landed less.
And to Conor’s credit, the audio from Floyd’s corner during the fight, released by ShowTime, would indicated that he did not “carry” Conor into the later rounds – although he was waiting for him to tire before attacking.
The punch count is likely a product of Floyd’s change in style for the fight. He uncharacteristically marched Conor down. This could be due to Floyd’s age making his usual evasions too risky, but probably Floyd knew that tiring Conor out was the best way to achieve the exciting finish that he and the fans so desired.
In any case, McGregor is sure to respond, and will hopefully do better on social media than he did in the ring.
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He bet the over and the over under was 9 and he took him out in 10…ya think?
Was there ever any doubt about this? Lol. I mean how much more obvious could it have been??
Nooooooo really?!?!
in this context does “carrying” mean prolonging?
Making the fight last longer
Thank you
Hello fellow South African. Haha he it means to intentionally not end the fight.
That was a sham fight…and shouldn’t towards his record.
How is this even a headline.. only people that know fa thought it was a real fight
Soo your saying boxing is only about money??? No wayy
Who cares They both rich & took our money for watching that fight haha Hats off to both men! Ching ching! Dolla Dolla bill y’all lol
Obviously he did… what chance would a 0-0 fighter have against the best in the business???? Let alone a mma fighter who’s never boxed before…..cmaaaaaan peeps LMAO
Yeah he took hits to the face from a proven knockout mma fighter “to make it look good”, fuck outta here with that nonsense
I don’t see a real problem here.
its the “best” outcome you getting where all parties are “happy”.
The fight was fixed to begin with. All the talk when they thought no one was watching gave that away.
You’re a idiot
And you’re a gullible fool Evan Palumbo.
Duh
So if he wasn’t giving it everything and ostensibly fixing the match, he should be fined. Shouldn’t he?
No your aloud to bet on yourself but not against yourself, I could be wrong
Connor threw the fight.
Nothing to lose vs everything to lose. Quick mafs.
You’re a idiot
Evan Palumbo no, you’re an* idiot. Good day to you sir.
double idiot
No shit lol
Who asked you!!!
Duh.
Floyd wanted to give the fans a show…
People will still say Conor can beat Mayweather
He’d kill him in under 2 minutes in a real fight…as for just boxing,Mayweather
Yea but they did boxing not mma. So many people were so retarded thinking McGregor actually had a chance in the ring ?
Ray Mcdonald I don’t know about that. Mayweather is faster has way more endurance and can box. He would have a chance. Not saying he would win though
No shit? It was obvious to anyone in boxing
It was a show
All about money
Fucking Ray Charles could see he was carrying Conor. Are you serious? This is still in question?
He could have dropped Conor any time after round 2!
Ofcourse he did just watch the fight.
Anybody who dosent know this already is plan stupid….
In other news…water is wet….shocking
You could tell while the fight was going on Floyd wasn’t doing what he regularly did during fights and it was extremely easy for him to advance on Connor like he did wouldn’t be suprised if they both agreed that Connor would go down in that round just for giggles but if Floyd wanted go he could of ended that fight in the first round if he wanted to
Holy shit!?!?!?! No way !!!!! I can’t believe it!!! It didn’t look that way at all!!! I was so sure Connor was standing toe to toe with money!??!?! You are telling me Connor isn’t as good as we thought it was ?!?!??! Shut the fuck up!!!!! I’m so God damn shocked I can’t take it!!!! Man this changes everything….. my god….seriously… wow
Your sarcasm is strong
Sarcasm #JEDILEVEL?
who cares it’s long over with, stop rehashing old news…….
Sounds like they’re both talking shit to try and build up another gay fight
Everyone who watched the fight already knows this
duh. like you couldn’t tell by watching.
Stick to bodybuilding. Especially if you don’t know what he means by carrying the fight
Believe it.
So he’s admitting to spot fixing? won’t that make it easy to make a case if charged?
And? I didn’t pay for the fight. thanks Youtube.
Do you think Connor cares come on people that shit is for the birds he just look at that paycheck.
I can’t believe anyone paid for this crap.
Nobody is ever buying again
Then they should pay back all the $ especially to those that paid to see this shit!
I belive it! Mayweather can easly knock this guy out! This is what it is all about making more money! I would love to see it again but this time floyd would kick his a…..!
Let him fight in the octagon let’s see what he says then
I’m glad I didn’t pay to watch it.
Whatever! He’s afraid a real boxer would come in and knock mcgreggors ass in the first round and make his ass look lame
Anyone that knows the sport of boxing knows that this entire fight was a rigged joke.
Nah you can’t carry a pro fighter who’s had many knockouts even if you are way better then then. Just my opinion
Definitely did !!!
He said that before the fight
He can say anything post fight we will never know the truth
sure, Floyd Gayweather made himself look bad so the fight would look good.. sure ya did