First of all, I like Stephen A. and I love Mollie Q. and
regarding Max Kellerman, well, not so much.
Well okay, Kellerman has it right when he says Conor McGregor has no
chance. But there he joins about 40
million fight fans who know the same thing.
Nonetheless, give him a pass. He has to cover it.
But among the people who are laughing at the spectacle are
people like Teddy Atlas and Oscar De LaHoya, both of whom know a bit about the
sport. Paulie Malignaggi feels he got
played when he got pushed down and someone in McGregor’s crew jumped up and
snapped a picture of Paulie on the floor and sent it around. Malignaggi says
the real story is that he slapped McGregor around for most of the sparring
match, and that’s true. Otherwise,
McGregor and his boss Dana White would have freed the entire sparring session
for broadcast.
But since that session is a classified secret in the
McGregor camp, and since the release of the clip would have people laughing, we
have only to watch the You Tube clip of the session he had with South African boxing
champ Chris Van Heerden . McGregor
looked like crap. Just as in recent
videos of his workouts, he’s slow and throws wide arm punches at poor angles
and without snap. Van Heerden said he could hit McGregor at
will, that he was shocked at how badly McGregor looked.
Stephen A. is a veritable oracle at basketball but he
appeared as bewildered as a guy recovering from a three-day drunk when he
hosted First Take August 24. He
evidently felt compelled to pretend that McGregor has a chance, the ‘big punch’
and all that, or that Mayweather is near death at age 40.
We all know what the
suckers think. I don’t know if Stephen A
believes himself or whether it’s just your classic sell-out to the ESPN powers
that be. Probably it’s a bit of
both. Or maybe he's hoping something really weird will happen, like the time that clown parachuted into the ring during the Evander Holyfield v. Riddick Bowe fight.
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