On August 27th, 2017, the world was one day removed from Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor actually fighting each other in a Nevada-sanctioned 12-round boxing match. Many thought it wouldn’t happen — I was stubbornly certain it’d never materialize — but it did, and Mayweather and McGregor (and the UFC) made oodles of cash.
Contrary to some pre-fight belief, McGregor failed to disrupt boxing as we know it, he didn’t punch from MMA angles (whatever the absolute fuck that terminology means), or fight out of a karate stance (seriously?!), or “go rogue” and throw kicks that would’ve seen him swiftly ambushed by Floyd’s bodyguards.
