ทอม, Tony and Rich discuss the week in combat sports, recap a stacked UFC 225 บัตร (and CM Punk’s failure to launch his MMA career), and go over the results of a wild weekend for boxing. We begin by highlighting two high profile mentions of death in the UFC Octagon. Dana White and Tyron Woodley are both in the news this week for raising the topic. Listen to the full broadcast below:
ทอม, Tony and Rich have a ton of ground to cover in this episode. We recap last week’s most significant fights, starting with the first sanctioned bareknuckle boxing event in hundreds of years. We also break down the latest UFC Fight Night card where Jimmie Rivera took the first loss in his last 21 การต่อสู้. We discuss Dana White’s tirade against fighters who don’t take the fights the company wants them to, and we blast Canelo Alvarez and his team for destroying all chances of another fight with GGG. We take a good chunk of the show to outline and analyze all the various boxing matches taking place this Saturday, from Tyson Fury’s return to the ring against Sefer Seferi to the battle of pound for pound best and undefeated welterweights Jeremy Horn and Terrence Crawford fighting on ESPN+ (which we criticize heavily). We also touch on the debut card for PFL, a fight league where all the prize money comes at the end of the season. ในที่สุด, we preview UFC 225 and discuss CM Punk’s chances of proving himself a true cage fighter.
CM Punk ต้องการเงินช่วยเหลือเพื่อให้เราสนใจในอาชีพของเขา. แม้ว่าเขาจะเอาชนะสิ่งมีชีวิตที่เคยมีชีวิตออกมาจากผู้ชายคนต่อไป แต่พวกเขาก็ให้อาหารเขาใน UFC Octagon, พังก์จะยังมีอะไรให้พิสูจน์อีกมาก. นำเขาไปสู้กับเมย์เวทเธอร์ในการต้อนรับการแข่งขัน MMA สำหรับนักชกระดับโลก, และทำให้การตั้งค่าความฝันของ Floyd ทำให้เขาได้รับสิทธิประโยชน์และสัมปทานการเป็นสปอนเซอร์ทั้งหมดที่เขาต้องการในสัญญา.
ฟลอยด์จะเป็นฝ่ายแพ้โดยอัตโนมัติที่เข้าปะทะกับแม็คเกรเกอร์ในกรงทันที. A challenger like CM Punk gives him more of a fighting chance. It gives CM punk a chance to really launch his career if he can beat Floyd.
ความจริงก็คือ, Mayweather can learn the sport of mixed martial arts quickly, and with his speed and athleticism, given more striking options he could actually shock us in his first MMA fight… if he really backs up his talk of fighting in the cage with action.
During the tour for the boxing match, Floyd repeatedly referenced the idea of fighting McGregor in the cage after the boxing match went his way. He doesn’t say things out loud that he doesn’t really think are true or could be true if he sunk his effort into it.
ฉันโชคดีที่ได้ยืนอยู่บนขอบสังเวียนข้าง Leonard Ellerbe ระหว่างการฝึกซ้อมของ Mayweather ในลาสเวกัสเมื่อหลายปีก่อน.
รวมข้อศอก, backfists, การเตะและต่อสู้ในกิจวัตรการต่อสู้ของเขาสามารถสร้างสัตว์ประหลาดตัวจริงจาก Mayweather ได้. ด้วย, the money from boxing that would follow him to the cage could be tremendous for him and the UFC alike. It will take a ton of work at his age to adapt to the new sport, but CM Punk as a first opponent sets the bar fairly low with both men getting a chance to show they belong. Give them both a serious training camp, make a reality show out of it, and it could happen.
“เงิน” is already preparing to train in mixed martial arts with UFC Champ Tyron Woodley, and he heaped some praise on both Woodley and McGregor as fighters recently:
การอภิปราย MMA กับมวยเกิดขึ้นมานานแล้วก่อนที่ฉันจะตัดสินใจทำรายการวิทยุด้วยตัวเองกับรายการวิทยุที่มีผู้เชี่ยวชาญคนหนึ่งปะทะกับอีกคนหนึ่ง. หนึ่งในรายการโปรดของฉันคือ “Iceman” John Scully ปะทะ Ken Shamrock.
ใครก็ตามที่คิดว่านักสู้ MMA ที่เก่งที่สุดในชั้นน้ำหนักของเขาทำลายฟลอยด์ไม่เคยดูเขาฝึก. What could this guy do with a couple of tune-up fights and a title tilt? How about 9 months of hard training in takedown and submission defense?
Everybody and their brother who knows anything about MMA decides to use the argument of all the past boxers who failed at MMA. They remind us all of the freakshow fight involving Randy Couture easily defeating James Toney. ฟลอยด์ Mayweather, จูเนียร์. is not only on a different level than James Toney was when he got the chance to fight in the cage, he’s on a different planet.
Floyd can afford the best trainers, the best of everything really in preparing to enter the UFC Octagon. He will spare no expense in finances and sweat equity in cementing his legacy as the best crossover fighter in the history of the boxing and MMA rivalry. Who has the best true athletes? Mayweather is representing boxing’s best, and he doesn’t have much time left to prove that a world class boxer can dominate the MMA scene with the right approach and strategy.
McGregor did prove that he could give Floyd a few fits in the boxing ring, but on the third fight into a UFC contract that match could happen again in the cage. Floyd just has to show he belongs, but the first step is having the guts to back up his words with actions. He did say on the boxing press tour for the McGregor fight that when he beat McGregor in his own craft, he would go to the UFC and beat Conor in the cage, เกินไป.
I anticipate a “Shark Tank” type of negotiation between Mayweather and UFC President Dana White. Floyd will need to get a piece of the promotion itself, access to a wild amount of sponsorship cash, options to collect on media income, and at least $10 million per fight in just base pay. To get the billion dollar contract he envisions, the lawyers will be ironing out the details for as long as Floyd decides he needs to train for his first fight.
Floyd could easily rake in $90+ million in sponsorship and media income to make $100 million per fight with Showtime executives in his corner and a familiarity with being in front of the cameras. A five fight deal means there is a 1/2 billion dollar gap unless I am underestimating how much the UFC would give Floyd for base pay. Even if he makes $200 million per fight, the rest would have to come out of the overall corporation itself as equity, ซึ่งเป็นสิ่งที่ Conor McGregor ขอ.
พื้นที่อื่น ๆ ที่ Floyd อาจมีผลกระทบอย่างมากคือการดึงดูดนักมวยให้ข้ามผ่านไปยัง MMA มากขึ้น. We’ve seen football players like Matt Mitrione and Greg Hardy experience virtually immediate success in MMA, so why not a world class boxer like Floyd? 19-0 Pro Boxer Gervonta Davis is already hinting at following his protege Floyd to MMA and sayshe’s just waiting for Dana White’s phone call. Then there are the heavyweight boxers to think about bringing into the cage, and Word ChampionAnthony Joshua is keen on giving it a shot, เกินไป.
ดังนั้น, the odds are high that Mayweather steps into the cage to compete by December of this year if you believe one of his most controversial videos to date on the subject:
Mayweather could be an incredible MMA fighter if given half the chance. He is not a man who takes a challenge like this lightly. He will have the best approach possible to get into cagefighting shape. He will bring all kinds of interest back to the boxing vs. MMA debate and actually might even inspire a whole new phase of that debate. The combat sports world as a whole will benefit if Floyd and the UFC can make this partnership work.
As for those who think Floyd will get eaten alive, they are certainly entitled to their opinion, but don’t use McGregor’s failure to adapt to boxing as your bar for Floyd. Mayweather will not take on a world class MMA fighter the first time he steps in the cage. He will not bring in the MMA equivalent of Paulie Malignaggi to get up to speed on the sport. He will spare no expense to get the best preparation possible. He’s already showing that to be true by bringing Tyron Woodley on as his official training partner. He will hand pick his first opponent and likely not get any crack at a title until two or three fights go his way.
Critics of people who think they can show up to an MMA gym and come out in six weeks at the UFC level will call me crazy, but Floyd truly is an amazing athlete who can quiet his doubters, and he’s not getting any younger. It’s now or never to solve that question of which sport is truly better at crafting the ideal fighter.
This week’s FNU Combat Sports Show starts off with Tom and Rich talking MMA for a while and then Tony joins in to cap off the show with a long boxing discussion. ฟังการออกอากาศทั้งหมดด้านล่าง:
ในสัปดาห์นี้, ทอม, Tony and Rich start our weekly broadcast with a discussion on the latest news on Floyd Mayweather Jr. teasing the idea of fighting in the cage. Even though Rich has been talking about this match-up on our show for weeks now, a recent article described the idea of CM Punk facing Mayweather as a rumor started by the
“Money Team.” Either Mayweather’s listening to our show or great minds think alike. We also touch on the subject of why the UFC may need to diversify with the addition of boxing cards and special events. We also recap last week’s boxing action and a spectacular UFC 221 card headlined by Yoel Romero’s TKO of Luke Rockhold. We then look forward to Roy Nelson’s fight with Matt Mitrione, set to go down later tonight on the Paramount Network. ในที่สุด, we preview UFC Fight Night 126, with a main event of Donald “คาวบอย” Cerrone facing Yancy Medeiros.
This broadcast of the FNU Combat Sports Show starts off with one of the most controversial stories of the week. Many sports pundits are quick to ridicule Guillermo Rigondeaux for bowing out of his blockbuster boxing match with Vasyl Lomachenko last Saturday. ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith wasted no time during the broadcast, ripping into the Cuban boxer for refusing to come out for the seventh round of the one-sided fight. Atlas เท็ดดี้, exiled from his ringside reporting duties thanks to his outspoken views on boxing corruption and his abrasive treatment of lesser-experienced commentators, came to Rigo’s defense. Atlas argued with Smith from his own home studio, basically explaining that everyone is human. ทอม, Tony and Rich all offer their own takes on the situation and their thoughts on the “สู้”
We also track the latest news in combat sports, recap the past week’s events and preview competing UFC and Bellator events this Saturday. We even touch on the multiple story lines involving Floyd Mayweather Jr. that are making the rounds in the sports media this week. “เงิน” claims he can make up to a billion dollars if he goes into the UFC for a three or four fight deal. ดี, good luck, ฟลอยด์. I hear CM Punk wants another fight.