Mayweather/Mcgregor Reaction

The fight I thought was a farce went down this past Saturday.  The general feeling is that Conor Mcgregor did better than expected, and that the fight was competitive.  I don't know what to think.  How do I judge the fight when it was pretty clear to me that Floyd was carrying him?  In the first 3 rounds Mayweather threw a total of 28 punches.  Was it really Conor's awkward stance, and pitty pat punches that was making Floyd hesitant to throw punches?  Floyd got semi serious in round 4, and caught Conor with some sharp punches in the middle portion of the round.  Mcgregor was landing his own punches, but they had no snap whatsoever.  He did land a good uppercut in the first round, but beside that he was just making contact with punches that make Floyd's punches look like Julian Jackson's by comparison.  Floyd continued to gain steam, and win easily until the 9th round, where he finally went all out.  Mcgregor had shown signs of fatigue before that.  Late in the 7th round he laid on the ropes, and took a deep breath after they were broken apart.  Now in the 9th he was taking hard punches to go along with that fatigue.  He had very little left, and was nothing but a punching bag for that round, and the 10th round, until the referee stopped the fight a little more than a minute into the round.  As a fighter Mcgregor looked awkward.  His stance was awkward, and his punches lacked steam.  Floyd was very kind to him, and Conor would have taken a serious beating had he been in there with a strong aggressive fighter like Canelo, or GGG.  Mayweather showed his 40 years to some extent, though it's hard to tell how much age caught up with him in this fight, because he seemingly could take over whenever he felt like it.

The fight was a money grab, and a very successful one at that.  Floyd went in there with an opponent that was no threat to beat him, and he behaved like it.  He walked forward for most of the fight, which isn't what he does.  He could afford to do it here, because Mcgregor's punches didn't have the type of power to make him pay for coming forward.  He had a big smile on his face after the second round.  It is also worth noting that Mayweather says that he tried to place a 400k bet that he would knockout Mcgregor within 9.5 rounds, but wasn't allowed to.  He wanted to place another bet on him winning by knockout, but wasn't allowed to do either.  He did get someone else to place a bet for him.  The numbers aren't in yet, but this fight is either the 1st, or 2nd biggest money fight in history, with Pacquiao/Mayweather being the other.  At 40 years old, and not the fighter he used to be, maybe Floyd will retire for good, or maybe some issues, like tax problems, could have him coming back for another money grab.