Reality is no matter how the fight goes long, short, one- sided, all out war, Floyd winnning or losing it would be the single biggest fight in MMA history. Period.
Mark Cuban is making shit happen.
PBF's boxing style just doesn't play well in MMA.
Also, if someone is close enough to touch you with his fist, he's close enough for you to grab and clinch. Lockup with him and pin vs cage. Plumb/drity boxing to finish.
But really, this looks nothing more like empty marketing on Cuban/Floyd's part. The money will never be where Pretty Boy wants, he will neve come close to "sniffing" the MMA mat. We're all being worked over and scammed. Can you say extended publicity stunt.
it would be like Michael Jordan quitting basketball to play baseball.
thats a perfect analogy
First off, you guys are giving most mma guys way to much credit for there standup. true he would get eatin alive by good kicks and knees, but who in mma (around that wieght) could do that. If we are talking like guys from the k-1 max then ya. buakaw would rape him. but give mayweather the credit of bieng the fastest most skilled boxer on the planet. Also i agree that this is all a stunt. First off floyds hands are so brittle that he wont even fight unless he is wearing the winning brand gloves (imagine what mma glove would do to them) Second unless cuban matched him with a wannabe striker it would be the Royce v.s. that boxer in the first ufc. Both Kid and Faber would take him down without breaking a sweat. Shooting is only dangerous if the guy is a wrestler or if he has good knees. Cuban is smart and we are stoopid for getting sucked into the idea.
Mark in less than a year has live fights on his channel and is working with seems like most of the mma promotions in the world. He says he'll have the Yarrenoka card on hdnet as well. Hate him or hate him a lot he knows how to work with people. I would not be surprised to see Fedor vs Randy on HDnet fights late 2008 or early 2009. Or not whatever.
boxing has way more in common with MMA than basketball does with baseball
lol at mark cuban making nothing happen. says a random guy.
he has only been in the game less than a yr
Not happening.
This is yet another boxing publicity stunt to boost up the next fight he has if he decides not to retire. Mayweather realizes that MMA fans are fight fans, and contriversy helps boost his numbers. I'm still shocked that people don't realize when the boxing world bashes MMA, what they are doing is encouraging MMA fans to watch big boxing matches out of spite for the opponent spouting the nonsense. Mayweather is just trying a new promotion angle by playing along.
Cuban is more than willing to play along because it gets his name and his promotion in the paper.
Oh... and he would get smoked against a solid opponent.
The promoter point makes sense too. But come on nobody is going to pay mayweather more than he can get by fighting Cotto, Mosley, or rematches with Oscar or Hatton. He would crush cotto and it would help his legacy. Ali is the man for who he fought in boxing. Nobody cared about the freak show with Inoki.
He would get smashed and lose drawing power. Stupid move.
smells like boolshit
he wouldn't be able to use his hands that much in MMA as noone would trade with him.
It would be interesting. Although there are many things I don't like about him, I think that with his level of athleticism and fighting instinct, it wouldn't take him long to catch on and he would in all likelyhood do rather well.
It would be good for the sport as well. Forgot to mention that!
Never ever ever ever. Never. Ever.
If I said there's a guaranteed $30 million payday, Floyd would be lacing them up," Cuban said
^^^
I wonder what the bang for the buck payoff would be for Cuban's mma efforts, assuming he did just pony up the money. It might be more than equivalent than any other, traditional ad campaign. Hell, it might even come close to being a break even proposition if they could generate a million PPV buys.
And props to Cuban--the mere fact of saying it provides him publicity, for free.
"would a good wrestler even want to shoot on him and risk getting a fist in his face? Taking down a lethal striker isn't as easy as it sounds because you gotta protect yourself on the shoot."
Watch the fight versus Hatton and you will see about 100 clinchs before you see the KO. And that is against a boxer only taking angles of attack that will let him punch. Add in actual takedowns and clinchs and PBF would be destroyed.
Larry Merchant will fight MMA before Mayweather does... True statement.
I can't stand Floyd, but I also believe he's way too smart to ever step into a cage against even a decent wrestler or submission grappler. He knows exactly what would happen to him.
And LOL @ "Larry Merchant will fight MMA before Mayweather does... True statement."
with 2 years of takedown defense, clinch defense, and all around greco and freestlye training I think he would be good. However its like saying Rampage is gonna go fight Pro Boxing because he Kod someone. he wouldnt last long there and Mayweather wouldn't last long here. He would have to dedicate himself to learning how to strike in MMA and how to defend. Obviously if any 155 pounder stood with him they would be a fucking moron