Brilliant explanation adarqui about the boxing gloves with the 4 oz. v 10 oz. scenario.
hah thanks! the analogy felt good at the time & still does.
This is the reason why I love this forum so much!
haha awesome. <3
The UFC is a marketing machine and they do an excellent job at hyping their fighters. Remember a couple of years ago when they were talking up Ronda Rousey and saying she'd beat up male fighters and kick Mayweather's ass haha. I've said this on facebook when people have been saying Conor has a chance but in reality it'll be 12 rounds of Mayweather running circles around Conor and making him look stupid. I'd even go as far as to say that there's more chance Conor will get DQ'd than actually winning this fight or knocking out Mayweather.
yea I remember the Rousey talk.. I guess we are fortunate that we have Conor vs Floyd rather than Rousey vs Floyd
They are using straight up Wrestlemania tactics to promote this fight & get people to buy into the idea that Floyd is in for the fight of his life.
49-0 against boxers who have spent decades training and perfecting their art and being the best of the best. This is just his swan song for going to 50-0 and having a final payout. Understandably in the boxing fraternity people are understandably angry that Conor has even been given this opportunity as everyone else has had to earn their way to the top and earn their way to fight Mayweather. Conor has just come in and it's a circus. Talk is cheap.
yup. and on the topic of talk:
It's very hard for anyone to try and stay atop the world while talking massive amounts of shit. Everyone who tries to mimic Floyd for example, eventually gets wrecked. He's basically created the blueprint on how to make more $$ by playing the villain. It seems easy to talk yourself up so much that now you are feeling more pressure than you normally would have. When talkers lose, they are never the same. Rousey is probably the best recent example - she talked herself into a grave. Conor when he took on Nate, Sonnen when he had Silva beat but then gave it away & was never the same, Aldo when he tried to match Conor's trash & stepped out of his game rushing in like Pacquiao vs Marquez and getting KO'd in 5 seconds, Broner when he was dominating lesser fighters and then gets humped by Maidana & completely embarrassed, Roy Jones Jr when Tarver KO'd him, James Toney getting dropped by Roy.
IMHO, it seems tough to be a talker.. It's extra added pressure, and when you lose, everyone is laughing.
Floyd is unique in that respect.. Talks bigger & more shit than most anyone (except maybe Conor), and doesn't have a 0 in his L column.. He knows people are just fiending for him to catch an L, every fight he's in. With him though, he always seems to stay within his true limits.. He doesn't talk "extra shit" and step out of his game plan. I think that's where everyone else I listed, fails. As Coges said, "get under the skin". With Floyd, it seems that when it comes time for the fight, he knows how to separate "what he wants" from "what he needs to do". He doesn't let his emotions get the best of him, practically never.
Again a great example is Rousey & her camp/coach talking so much shit, talking herself up to be a striker, when she isn't. She should have just been diving for legs trying to get people down and armbar them. Instead, she talked herself into game plans that she could never win. If talking shit makes you delusional, then it becomes a weapon against you.
Notice how Floyd said, "first round will be a chess match probably", "but if Conor wants to go to war, we can do that" ... sure...
When it's time for business, Floyd will go back to being surgical.
