The Money Farce: Result was expected, how we got there is another question!

Mayweather TKO 10 1:04 over McGregor, McGregor ran out of gas.

Lost $5 on my bet (fight doesn't go four full), but that was final-day winnings anyway.

• Round 1:  I really like the strategy McGregor used here.  Since we know Mayweather is a defensive boxer in at least kayfabe, frustrate him by pawing that jab out there.  Got a very meaningful counter uppercut and several other shots in there.  Mayweather tried to come forward and he, for the most part, paid for it in that round!  As the announcer said, nothing devastating, but the more meaningful action.  McGregor wins round 1.
• Round 2:  McGregor gets slightly lazy and pops Floyd on top of the head, drawing a warning from referee Robert Byrd and early notice he will NOT let it degenerate into a streetfight.  But again, Conor is getting the more meaningful shots.  Nothing registering on the Richter Scale by any measure, but beginning to frustrate Floyd a bit, into a bull charge about a minute to go and attempting to provoke a foul by turning his back in a defensive posture (which is a known Mayweather move) about 30 seconds left in the round.  McGregor wins round 2 as well on my card.  Mayweather isn't hurt and is very comfortable, but it's becoming clear he's going to wait this out.
• Round 3:  Another lazy moment off the pop for McGregor gets another behind-the-head warning from the referee.  Byrd, however, quickly evens by noting Mayweather needs to keep his head up.  McGregor really took advantage of Mayweather's style here.  A more pressing fighter wouldn't work for McGregor, but the defensive style is allowing McGregor to set up and tee off.  McGregor, again, the busier fighter with the more effective shots.  Another chop-down to the back of the head should've drawn another McGregor warning, but Byrd, seeing Mayweather trying to set up for that foul, decides to caution Mayweather instead.  The announcer on the world feed, which is where I got this video, notes Mayweather may not have won a round yet.  In my book, he hasn't.  He's shut out by an MMA guy in the first three rounds.
• Round 4:  Floyd takes several shots at the open, including one which might've been a shade low to him and to Byrd.  Seeing a bit more movement forward by Floyd in this round, for the first time.  He can be as "in control" as he wants to be.  Fact is, he's got to do something with that control, because he is getting tagged by a busier fighter!  And then he finally is, Mayweather getting off some solid shots for the first time in the fight.  Good exchanges, but Mayweather asserts some control here and wins his first round.
• Round 5:  Seems to go awry a bit in the first minute of Round 5 for Mayweather, but a sloppy exchange leads to warnings to both fighters (and correct as such).    But now you are seeing Mayweather moving forward, McGregor (like many others) going back.  He's not passively going backward by any means, but Mayweather is asserting control of the ring.  He's taking at least some jabs for his trouble, though.  Later in the round, it's Mayweather with a little rough stuff -- the announcer noting two forearms by Mayweather across the neck of McGregor in clinches.  A little shove by Mayweather in disrespect draws a shove by the referee to Mayweather to send him back to his corner, but he narrowly wins the round on the basis of ring control.
• Round 6:  Mayweather attempts to provoke a foul again, and takes several shots, not all of them precisely legal, from McGregor, but the referee, correctly seeing that Floyd turned around rather than McGregor flatly fouling him, decides to break it up but no more.  Mayweather, after this, is able to land several nice shots.  Several good trades, but Floyd has evened the fight on my card at 57-57.  Still, it's nowhere near the washout most people thought it would be, as several exchanges, even as McGregor is seen as beginning to tire, find both fighters landing.  But Mayweather is getting the harder shots.
• Round 7:  An early exchange with slight advantage to McGregor leads to another Mayweather warning because he is the one to take the extra shot on the break.  It's clear that Mayweather is trying to provoke either a big foul or a cheap DQ and a lawsuit or something, and McGregor is not biting on it.  Mayweather definitely asserting where the moving is going, but he's still just slightly on the short end.  He's throwing the more effective punches, but only when he can get that far in the first place.  Mayweather is turning his back a couple times later in the round to stop McGregor and maybe draw a foul, but the referee is smartly not buying it.  And then, a minute to go in a slightly-even round, Mayweather finds another gear.  McGregor definitely gassing at this point, Mayweather finishes the round convincingly, 67-66.
• Round 8:  Mayweather in full control of the movement of the fight, much to the frustration like many of his other fights.  Unlike many of those fights, McGregor is still throwing and at least TRYING.  He's definitely tiring, and he took a couple shots in the good part of the round, but he responds and at least forces the judges to either predetermine the round or the like.  I'll give it to McGregor with the understanding he has to back Floyd up at some point (meaning he has to find some power), but he at least had answers for Floyd in those three minutes he hadn't in the four rounds previous.  76-76.
• Round 9:  Finally a formal warning from Byrd to McGregor, low blow and there may have been something else in that.  It does still appear that Mayweather is trying to draw fouls from the less-experienced McGregor, but this one was serious enough to get the full warning from the official.  Mayweather with no respect for the jabs or anything, but at some point you have to throw back, or else you're just walking into scoring shots.  And when he does, about a minute into the round, he begins to show his dominance.  And now, for the first time, though no single punch precipitated it, the legs are beginning to go.  By 45 seconds to go in the round, McGregor is so out of it, he lurches to Mayweather to clinch.  But even then, it's Mayweather doing most of the illegal rough-housing (not enough to warn, but you're surprised McGregor didn't do more of this) inside.  The lights have gone out for Conor McGregor.  The fact is that he really shouldn't have come out for Round 10.  The first minute, however, is what keeps this from being a two-point round, and my final scorecard reads 86-85.
• Sugar Ray Leonard openly said "It's over." at the end of Round 9.  He was right.
• Round 10:  There's no second wind in Conor McGregor.  A shot sends McGregor across the ring about 55 seconds in, the stoppage at 1:04.

The judges had it 89-82, 89-81, 87-83.  The judges had the fix in for Mayweather, because any firm viewing of the fight gives McGregor the first three rounds at minimum, and I don't have a round in there that was a two-point round at all.  There were no foul deductions, so let's get this straight:

• One judge had it eight rounds to one.
• Another had a two-point round and eight rounds to one.
• The third had it six-three and a two-point round.

I'd really like to know where the two-pointer was.  Yes, the ninth looked ugly, but McGregor acquitted himself quite well for the first minute of the round, and Mayweather didn't close out as it should've been.

I had the fight 86-85 for Mayweather, five rounds to four.   87-84 would be reasonable, if you give Mayweather Round 8.

I wasn't the only one.  Whoever CBS Sports had with it's card went the exact same way I did.  86-85, Rounds 1-3 and 8 for McGregor.

89-82 and 89-81 were there to ensure Mayweather won, even a fight like this.

Wow.