Keidel: Mayweather-McGregor Exceeded Expectations

By Jason Keidel
As we make sense of Saturday night’s fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Conor McGregor, a fight that exceeded all sane expectations, let’s look at the historical wake it left, along with the legacies of both fighters.
For some reason, boxing pundits and purists — like yours truly — who are gatekeepers of boxing ancestry, were supposed to be appalled by this fight, this farce, this veiled armed robbery with a remote to replace a gun. To not only watch bu