{"id":296640,"date":"2018-12-31T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=296640"},"modified":"2018-12-31T07:46:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:46:14","slug":"the-combats-sports-community-reacts-to-floyd-mayweather-smashing-tenshin-nasukawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rizin-ff\/the-combats-sports-community-reacts-to-floyd-mayweather-smashing-tenshin-nasukawa\/","title":{"rendered":"The combats sports community reacts to Floyd Mayweather smashing Tenshin Nasukawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday night (Monday morning in North America), undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. stepped into the RIZIN Fighting Federation ring for a strange exhibition bout with 20-year-old kickboxing sensation<\/a> Tenshin Nasukawa.<\/p>\n

In the weeks leading up to this exhibition bout \u2014 and really, until the very point the action began \u2014 Floyd Mayweather looked like he was taking it all incredibly lightly. Once the action began, however, the legend of pugilism began pouring on the offense, punishing his much smaller opponent with the kind of winging power shots he has not thrown in years. To him, it seemed, this was indeed a real fight.<\/p>\n

Before the first of the bout’s three rounds had ended, the Tenshin Nasukawa corner was throwing in the towel. Their fighter had been dropped three times, and they had seen enough (see the finish here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As you can probably imagine, this chaotic scene generated some interesting reactions from the boxing, MMA and kickboxing communities.<\/p>\n

Here’s how the combat sports world reacted to the madness on social media:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/MightyMouse\/status\/1079764211608080386<\/p>\n

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Mayweather is an all time great but there\u2019s thousands of 154lbs boxers who could have done that to Tenshin. What was the point?<\/p>\n

— James Goyder (@JamesGoyder) December 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n