Although nationalist types are saying that the Mayweather vs McGregor fight was a form of racial punishment, cold sober analysis reveals nothing of the sort. I have gone over the fight taking hours to view the appalling show of what was once the manly art. Since the time of Ali, boxing has been rapidly going downhill. Sure, athletes are full of steroids and there have been strong punchers like Tyson, but the skill level cannot match the older generation.
Since Ali’s rope-a-dope strategy, boxers have kept their guards down, so TV viewers can see their faces, but they usually get smacked in the head when they punch. You see this all the time in boxing matches. It is embedded in popular culture in the Rocky boxing movies, where Stallone just takes punches to the head like an Italian sponge. Defence is non-existent. McGregor was simply terrible. Mayweather was only a little better.
