Mayweather-McGregor, A Month From The Farce: We know this "fight" is a joke -- just who's going down?

A number of articles and thoughts about Mayweather-McGregor, as the farce begins the run to fever pitch in four weeks...

• Absolutely STELLAR Deadspin article today by a boxing writer who went to McGregor's camp, saw him "box", and basically has declared him dead meat.  He then asks how McGregor has been bet to odds he's seen in Vegas as 4-1!! (Easy:  Wishful thinking, and the hope he murders Mayweather in the ring!)

Especially love this note to the NSAC:

"This is none of my concern, and how the idiots on the Commission board enrich themselves and bring revenue to the state is their business, but these dumb motherfuckers should never again have a voice in who is or isn’t allowed to box in Nevada. If Charles Manson applies for a license to fight Anthony Joshua at the MGM Grand in Vegas, they better not have the audacity to withhold it from him."

I would almost think that he's talking about McGregor and his lack of boxing acumen.  He should be talking about Mayweather here (IRS, domestic violence, etc.), as I've told the NSAC directly that, by their own guidelines, the piece of shit should never be licensed to box!

But, as we well know, he's one of the only draws Vegas has.

Want proof?

Because of my previous Vegas trips, I'm on the mailing list for deals for a number of the Vegas hotels, and I got a deal for the Westgate:  $50/night (plus $30 for the resort fee), but you get $50 in free slot play on your Player's Card for every night you stay.

And the first few days that is available is less than two weeks from when I received the e-mail (it's also the week I plan to be in Vegas to check out a number of things, with a decent bankroll for my level of betting, etc.).

They're having trouble bringing people in for the off times.

More on that when I head out there.  Anyway, back to the "fight":

• Report out today that movie theaters are getting on board to get people to watch the fight...  at FORTY DOLLARS A PERSON!
• As no surprise to how low the number is being bet for McGregor, reports from the Vegas books are that the vast majority of the money is going McGregor's way, both in bets and in amount of money.  This is almost certainly by the same "squares" (people who don't know as much as the "sharps") doing this since the fight was announced!

Reality check, people:  The fight's a fix.

The only real question in this fight is who takes the dive, since even The Mob couldn't beat the IRS.

Is Mayweather's troubles with the IRS enough to get him to do for McGregor what Pacquiao did for him, or is it a trap Mayweather is using to actually get people to think this fight might go the other way.  In a shoot, he KTFO's McGregor within 2 minutes.

There's one more factor in this that absolutely intrigues me.  Dana White is involved in at least some of the promotion.  That makes me wonder who's taking the dive here.

There's only two ways that Dana White could be seen as involved as this in any respect:

His fighter is winning the fight, or this is finally the time Dana White is cashing out before the drugs and everything else catches up to the UFC and finally bankrupts the whole enterprise.

Don't believe the latter can happen?  I got a good example for you, going off tomorrow night:

Jon Jones/Daniel Cormier, UFC 204 (SELF-CORRECT:)  214 main event.

Was supposed to be the UFC 200 main event, but Jones pissed hot.  That brought Lesnar into the equation to manufacture a saleable main event with Mark Hunt, and HE pissed away $1.5 million by pissing hot TWICE!

Jones was suspended a year for his positive test, and suspended by UFC previously and stripped of his division's title (which he's fighting for Saturday, which Cormier has held basically ever since) after a hit and run incident after Jones beat Cormier in their first fight...

... a fight punctuated by that mad melee at the press conference!

Jon Jones should never be allowed to fight again.  That he is is a testament to the current state of the UFC and the lack of draws fighting is having at any conceivable pro level.

That we're back here, after all that Jon Jones has put this "sport" through, indicates to me that there is the very real possibility that Dana White needs out fast before law enforcement gets their hands on MMA.

The fact is simple:  If Conor McGregor is destroyed as he is expected to be in four weeks, MMA and the UFC are DONE.

Much of the draw of MMA is that these are the baddest motherfuckers on the planet.

What took down Ronda?  A converted boxer.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on things, especially as I'm in Vegas in 10 days or so.  Will I be duped enough to lay a buck or two on the fight?  Dunno.