Mayweather Jr vs McGregor Odds Post-Tour – This past week, Floyd Mayweather Jr and Conor McGregor engaged in a four city press tour that took them to Los Angeles, Toronto, New York and London. The two men are set to fight on pay-per-view this coming August 26th and the big promotional push of the tour came roughly six weeks before. The four appearances will be the only time you are going to see the two men come together face to face before the fight and as such had to classify as “must see viewing.”
It was about what was to be expected as both men trash talked each other with droves of fans watching and cheering. Not a lot of boxing or technique was discussed but a lot of dollar bills were thrown around and the “F” word showed it can be said with a double “O” in the middle.
McGregor certainly knows how to control a microphone and he was many things during the four day whirlwind – bombastic, cocky, charming and just plain out of his mind, McGregor will be wearing the white hat come fight time. Mayweather Jr is not going to make any new fans here but he is comfortable wearing the black hat and being the bad guy. In the ring Mayweather doesn’t have to be as good as he was on his best day, he just has to be good enough to beat an amateur.
At the end of the day, most of the world will be watching this thing on August 26th. It does seem like most of the boxing world just wants it to be over as “The Sweet Science” was enjoying a phenomenal year in 2017 until the return of Floyd Mayweather Jr disrupted everything. With back to back snoozers against Manny Pacquiao and Andre Berto before his last retirement, Mayweather looked like he took the money and ran, actually damaging the sport that gave him everything. Additionally, the fight has the feel that MAyweather Jr is handing the PPV king torch off not to a boxer but to an MMA fighter and that doesn’t really help boxing at all. Will Floyd’s latest money grab do more damage to the sport after it happens?
Mayweather Jr vs McGregor Odds Post-Tour
A lot has been made about where the odds are set for this fight. The fact is that Mayweather Jr is 49-0 and he is considered at least the best boxer of the 21st century thus far and Conor McGregor, for all his qualities, has never boxed a single round as a professional. Throughout the latter part of his career, Mayweather Jr enjoyed being the favorite by four figure margins for real fights against world champion level boxers such as Andre Berto and Miguel Cotto. The odds McGregor is getting are an insult to those boxers and to the sport as a whole but incredibly, McGregor is attracting bettors because the line is closing.
This latest TnS video blog takes a look at what is going on with the line as we are roughly five weeks away from fight day.
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ODDS AS OF July 19th:
Super Welterweight 12 rounds –
Conor McGregor +520 o9½ +150
Floyd Mayweather Jr -740 u9½ -170
ODDS ON June 25th:
Super Welterweight 12 rounds –
Conor McGregor +600 o9½ +145
Floyd Mayweather Jr -900 u9½ -165
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