There’s really only one true contest in the fighters’ grab for a dump truck filled with cash: a two-month clash of mouthsFew in sports are taking the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight seriously. Why should they? As boxer Lennox Lewis told ESPN this week: “Mayweather is the best in his weight class, no one can touch him in boxing. He’s a pugilist of the highest order, so for another man from another sport to fight him?” But people will buy. They will buy big. They will buy a lot. They will spend $100 on pay-per-view if that’s what it takes. They will drop $4,000 or $5,000 a ticket and fill Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena and even grab a handful of officially-licensed T-shirts emblazoned...
A massive cheque with plenty of noughts on end could lure Floyd Mayweather back to ring in what would surely be one of the most one-sided bouts of his careerSome scientists and Silicon Valley smarts increasingly believe that nothing we experience is real, and that life is just a giant computer game created by a far more sophisticated super‑intelligence. This theory even has a name: simulation hypothesis – although, disappointingly, it has nothing to say about whether Cristiano Ronaldo might stay on his feet more in a parallel universe.If these folk are right, then perhaps we should also start asking whether our silicon overlords have got bored with Earth: The Game and decided to tweak the programme radically. And maybe...
The narcissistic former champion may be one of the greats but prioritised sleep over any show of respect at a recent engagement in LondonFloyd Mayweather deserves to be regarded as the finest defensive boxer of his time and one of the best welterweights in history, although, contrary to his own repeated assertions, not greater than either of the Sugar Rays, Robinson and Leonard.Anyway, what Mayweather does not deserve until he proves otherwise is the respect of British fans who came away from his recent speaking tour livid that he had short-changed them. Related: Michael Conlan: ‘After five years I want to be out of boxing, having made enough money to retire’ “It is undoubtedly a fact that some men of...
Former world super-bantamweight champion, who is making noises at featherweight, is leaving Joe Gallagher’s care to base himself at the Wild Card gym in Los AngelesScott Quigg has split with Joe Gallagher after six years to join Freddie Roach in the US. It is a gamble that could launch him into a rematch with Carl Frampton or put him into the mix at featherweight, a division that is brimming with possibilities.The 28-year-old former world super-bantamweight champion, now making noises at 9st, insisted on Monday the parting was amicable, although only those close to the camp saw it coming. Related: Carl Frampton beats Scott Quigg to unify world super-bantamweight titles Continue reading...
The potential meeting of the seasoned boxer and the mixed martial arts star under Queensberry Rules is likely to be an embarrassingly one-sided contestFor all the talk that has built up around the putative showdown between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor being about the best pound‑for‑pound boxer of the past quarter of a century taking on the brightest star in the history of mixed martial arts, it is not. It has all the hallmarks of a mismatch. This one, like nearly all the others, is about the money.Unless there is an accident or a miracle, Mayweather will bamboozle the Irish cage fighter to the point of embarrassment with skills that carried him unbeaten through 49 professional boxing matches and garnered...