Floyd Mayweather mess up Conor McGregor
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, also known as "The Money Fight" and "The Biggest Fight in Combat Sports History"was a professional boxing match between undefeated eleven-time five-division professional boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and two-division mixed martial arts world champion and at-the-time current UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor. The -match took place at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada on August 26, 2017.
Mayweather extended his professional boxing undefeated streak to 50 victories and 0 defeats (50–0), surpassing the 49–0 record of professional boxing Hall of Famer Rocky Marciano by defeating McGregor by way of technical knockout (TKO) in the 10th round. After the fight concluded, Mayweather announced in his post-fight interview that he had fought his final professional boxing match, and would be retiring from the sport.
McGregor announced in his post-fight interview that he would be willing to compete in a professional boxing ring again, and confirmed that he would be returning to mixed martial arts and the UFC.
Mayweather extended his professional boxing undefeated streak to 50 victories and 0 defeats (50–0), surpassing the 49–0 record of professional boxing Hall of Famer Rocky Marciano by defeating McGregor by way of technical knockout (TKO) in the 10th round. After the fight concluded, Mayweather announced in his post-fight interview that he had fought his final professional boxing match, and would be retiring from the sport.
McGregor announced in his post-fight interview that he would be willing to compete in a professional boxing ring again, and confirmed that he would be returning to mixed martial arts and the UFC.
McGregor was totally messed up by round 10, he seemed almost out on his feet, and when Mayweather landed a series of blows with McGregor on the ropes, referee Robert Byrd stopped the fight. McGregor lost the fight, but he never went down.
“They should have let me keep going,” he said afterward. “Let the man put me down.”
McGregor outlanded Mayweather, 51-40, in the first five rounds. But Mayweather dominated the rest of the fight, 130-60.
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