In post 50, pickemgenius wrote:if mayweather doesnt ko mcgregor in 2-4 rounds then ill be very surprised.
im not a massive boxing dude but this fight is a fucking joke.
I bet the decision but a later round KO is certainly in the cards simply due to volume. Nowadays, Floyd only puts away guys that are VASTLY inferior boxers(think victor ortiz). Only other KO in the last 12 years was a past it Ricky Hatton. He didn't even put away past it De La Hoya(who is a similar size to Mystic Mac), beyond past it Shane Mosley, or scrub ass Andre Berto.
So I think unless Conor is worse than I think he's going to be, think Mayweather point fights him.
Killthestory wrote:that's a lot of paragraphs for shit i don't want to read "but kts mayweather trains hard!!" tell me the date of those pictures compared to his recent training exercises and get back to me without out of date sources: : )
"but but lots of fighters watch tapes" they didn't watch the tapes where floyd fought pacquiao as an older fighter and noticeably slower
"but but he's an all time defensive boxer champion" ok and
"But wait if they box they hit hard" mcgregor is one of your harder hitters in the mma and his legs are a huge boon to him but with those taken out it's just going to be his killer left hand. floyds power doesn't equate to conors at all that's a literal joke
Dude, all you have to do to see Mayweather working out hard as fuck is go to youtube and search it, There are like 1000 videos of him in the gym for McGregor. Meanwhile, mcgregor is shagging tennis balls with the pool noodle guy.
Straight up, I don't think McGregor is going to be anywhere near the level of boxer it's gonna take to be able to outbox floyd and KO him. I DO THINK CONOR HAS A PATH TO VICTORY, but it's straight up not as pretty and elegant as everyone(including the man himself seems like) think. He needs to be watching Andre Ward, Bernard Hopkins and that Maidana fight with Mayweather. He needs to be looking to go into the clinch and do every cheap 6 inch punch in the fucking book. He needs to be doing that straight arm walk your opponent around the ring and move sideways so he cant punch over the arm huge ass fucking cheat thing that Andre Ward used a ton against Carl Froch. He needs to bully Mayweather. He needs to put Mayweather in the fucking mud, run the gas tanks just by putting the weight on and basically fight as dirty as possible under the Boxing rule set, not give a single fuck about losing points, and just press and press and press and press until he gets an opening to unload.
My money is on Mayweather putting on a point fighting clinic and hitting with unprecedented volume(Diaz already proved conor is infinitely hittable and he;s mediocre by boxing's standards of boxing).
Also KTS, you seem to not understand how either boxing or MMA works if you think Conor's striking is being done a favor by removing takedowns and kicks. You should probably watch some fights. Just watch the footwork.
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