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My son disputes this bitterly:

Is McGregor Safe Fighting Mayweather? Ringside Physicians Say No

Mayweather is a tremendous defensive fighter and ought to be heavily favored but considering McGregor's punching power and relative youth I would be more worried about a lucky punch and Mayweather's health.

UPDATE: This guy loves boxing but hates the Mayweather-McGregor spectacle. But is this passage serious or parody?

Boxing is experiencing a glorious year, with multiple worthy candidates for fight of the year: Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez's shocking, bloody loss to Srisaket Sor Rungvisai; Gennady "Triple-G" Golovkin's hard-fought win over Daniel Jacobs; a brutal battle between James DeGale and Badou Jack, just to name three.

Then there's been the sheer mastery of Vasyl Lomachenko, who after just 10 fights is making a case for best pound-for-pound fighter since Leonard. There is also the ring mastery of Terence Crawford and the resurgence of Mikey Garcia, who looks like he could beat just about anybody right now.

And then there's maybe the biggest story of all: the epic Wladimir Klitschko-Anthony Joshua fight, easily the best heavyweight championship bout since Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe squared off in the 1990s, a signal that the division could be back, or at least on its way.

Unfortunately, Mayweather-McGregor will sully all that.

Despite my daily devotion to the ESPN website I am unable to say a thing about any of the fights or fighters he mentioned. I am sure I am not alone in my perfect ignorance. 

 

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Can't remember my grandmother's birth year but she died at 98 when I was about 16-18, which would make her about 140+. My mom is 93.
My pop would have been 100 next year.
Late bloomers in my family.

[Clarice Feldman]

My mother is 98.

[Ralph L]

TK, were those second marriages? The natural forces run unabated in your family.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

By the way, I guess Senator Danforth wants everyone to disassociate themselves from Trump, for the sake of our country and our party.

Just heard this on Fox. He's got an op-ed somewhere. I am not inclined to go look for it, as I have hit my BS quotient for today.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

IMO, to run for office ought to be a lot more than twenty questions. How to collect money should not be one of the questions.

[Man Tran]

My dad would have been 111 next month. His dad would have been in his late 130s. Heh. Don't ever hear it said that way.

[Ralph L]

Every winning campaign manager is hailed a genius (except Trump's), and most of them believe it.

My great aunt married at 44 and had a kid at 45. Not sure about the interval.

[Captain Hate]

I have to commend Rove for having the sense to mostly keep his yap zipped, other than appearing with those two assholes, Chris Wallace and Joe Trippi, on Fox during last year's race. I think he understood that it was a "change" election and any effort on his to stand in the way of it would leave him completely marginalized. I don't think he's dumb so much as having embraced a poor strategy that led to narrow wins instead of the landslides that should have happened.

[henry]

Ralph, my older brother has a 2 year old. ;)

[Old Lurker]

Pagar, but just 20 would eliminate almost all of the 535 today.

[cboldt]

Danforth's Aug 24 WaPo OpEd is lame on stilts. "Not who we are" based on the same sort of spin that CNN puts on events.

There hasn't been a more divisive person in national politics since George Wallace.

Danforth and his ilk are showing themselves, and no doubt will bind together to put a drag on Trump's policy prescriptions, "because he's Trump." Same logic the courts use to knock down Trump EO's

[sbw]

Danforth is a career politician who apparently was ordained an Episcopal minister.

Who needs a third strike.

[Threadkiller]

TK, were those second marriages?

Nope. Grandpa spread kids out over a long single marriage. My dad started late.

[Ralph L]

It takes two to divide, and one side left the planet in the Bush years.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Guys like Danforth govern not with the consent of the governed, but with their acquiescence. As long as things are going ok for the average person, senators are just gray haired guys who talk a lot and who get your vote if they are on your team.

However, things will go south for these guys pretty quickly when a snowballing set of miseries clash with their speechifying and virtue-signaling. People are not expecting attacks on the ONLY PERSON IN DC who understood the problems of the working class and middle class, who wants to fix the cities and stop immigration. They want their tax cuts. They want jobs. They want an end to jihadists blowing up people and running over them with vans.

Furthermore, most people outside the media saw NOTHING WRONG with what the President said. So Danforth is lumping all of us in with George Wallace.

This is not a winning strategy at all. This is the desperation of a cowardly bunch who fear the opprobrium of the NYT, WaPo, and CNN more than they fear the people.

As has been frequently said, if they don't like Trump, get rid of him and see what comes nest. They will like that a whole lot less.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Time for Fox to go off as they are attacking the President's attacks on the media.

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anonamom---> Kev update.

24 days following surgery yesterday, first day of light yoga. downward dog was tough but I could do it.

pain is up and down. docs want me on 120mg (from 180 mg per day) per day narcos by Aug 31. I'm at 110-140 last 4 days. first full night of uninterrupted 7 hours sleep last night.

18 days of daily antibiotics infusion-IVee-- left.

fasting blood sugar last 16 days: 81 and hasn't risen above 112 since 8-9-17. hospital staff hair is falling out in patches from scratchin re "diabetes reversal."

Without reversal this affliction would have taken me out.

No upward fluctuations in body temperature (would signal a reignition of infection). The infusions seem to be working.

Grandkids Helio Aurelius (6) and Estella Ramona (4) are visiting from Belgium. They are teaching me Dutch, Flemish, and French. I am teaching them to tie knots, sculpt with clay, and braid sinew.

The last three mornings have been good for the body, mind, and soul. Great seeing my eldest (daughter Jess) and her hubby.

Meet with surgeon on the 30th. Incision's healed.

Kev

[sbw]

Time for Fox to go off as they are attacking the President's attacks on the media.

I too-regularly turn Fox Business off, too, and tweet to them that they need to stop “analyzing” and go back to reporting news.

Bartiromo’s coffee clatch is unwatchable most of the time and Cavuto, too. He needs to stop pushing his agenda.

[sbw]

They are teaching me Dutch, Flemish, and French. I am teaching them to tie knots, sculpt with clay, and braid sinew.

Didn’t know your connection to the Benelux. Great!

Thnx for the update. Positive all around.

[DrJ]

New thread.

[asw]

Kev not only are you a winner but you are a fabulous grandfather! I wish I could have known my grandfathers - one who would be 150 this year and the other 143, when they could enjoy their grandkids. What a blessing for all of you!

[middyfeek]

"Best pound for pound fighter since Leonard".

Benny or Sugar Ray?

[Thomas Collins]

Re McGregor having a chance with a lucky punch: On a par three hole, a duffer could get lucky and score a hole in one against Dustin Johnson and win the hole. That duffer has a better chance against Johnson than McGregor has of connecting with a knockout punch against Mayweather. MMA rules and boxing rules are two different universes. And McGregor is in a universe in which he has virtually no experience.