The Pig, The Dupe, and a Billion Dollars: Why Sane People Need To Avoid Las Vegas on August 26th...

Conor McGregor, by all reasonable appearances, has agreed to lay down for Floyd Mayweather on August 26th.

There's no other way, regardless of the number of zeroes involved, this event would happen.

Has no one paid attention for the last, what, ten years?  Fifteen??

Floyd Mayweather and The Money Team OWN Las Vegas.

Don't believe me?  They remind you every time you leave the city Westbound on the Interstate 15 -- large billboard advertising said Money Team.

Pacquiao laid down to pay some of his taxes off.

Every fighter this piece of shit "fought" laid down, because there's only one thing in the fight game which makes a goddamn cent anymore, and it's a loud-mouth piece of shit who represents the Vegas fight game perfectly.

And now he's not only going to hurt boxing, but the entire Vegas fight game.

Many people I talk to would say "Good!" to all of that, and I have no issue with any of that.

Early bets have had the general public "squares" heavy to McGregor, even though any intelligent sport discussion (even if you took this fight as a "shoot" and not the fixed Money Team Production any sane person has to understand it will be) sees this as a joke...

Look, I get it:  I want Mayweather the domestic abuser put into a coma.  I'll make no secret of that.

But the most frustrating thing about it is that he basically does enough to make a show out of it, goes into the defensive shell, and you know by about Round 4, the entire situation is a rigged farce.

And the thing is:  We don't even know if this is going to be a boxing match (McGregor has applied for a boxing license in Nevada!), an MMA situation, or some sort of Pride FC hybrid rules whateverthey'regoingtotrytoputtogether...

I get that Conor McGregor is a proud Irishman and all of that, and it's one of the things that makes me utterly shocked he'd get in any ring or octagon or whatever with Floyd Mayweather.

I would think Conor McGregor would know better than to get in any fixed fight.

That said, no fight that Floyd Mayweather has fought in many years or will ever fight again that will ever be legitimate.

Every person who pays for the tickets, the pay-per-views, the hotel rooms, etc., and ESPECIALLY anyone who bets on McGregor to win, is an idiot!

All I know is that this ends one way:  The Pig gets his hand raised over The Dupe, and we all get Duped again by The Money Team.  The fight is fixed the moment ink is put to paper.

And then, with no mega-draw, the Vegas fight game dies.  Both boxing and MMA.  It will try to continue (look at the fight this weekend and the Golden Boy Productions fight with GGG right near the Mayweather/McGregor farce). but it has no mega-draw.