spoiler: whatever McGregor wants to do, it's against the rules of boxing.

And he probably knows that, but what he's really asking is "how will the referee react when I do this?" Will they stop the fight? How often can I do this before I get disqualified?

bolt does 400m runs as part of his training

he's the greatest sprinter oat

Honestly not sure if that's true if he actually trained for the event

Edit: lol he ran a 45.4 when he was 16, a second slower than last place in the 2016 final. So bad example imo

his best 400m time ever (he ran it seriously when he was starting out) is 45.28, about half a second slower than the slowest finalist in rio

maybe he could finish 7th if he completely overhauled his training over a long time. wouldn't get it done in a few months

a second isnt a small amount over 400m

put another way, his best ever time woulda been good for 20th out of 24 in the semis

give him 2 years of total focus on the 400m and i'd expect him to medal cos he's a beast, but that's not analogous to the macgregor thing unless he's been secretly training boxing exclusively for ages

Right. When he was 16!

Googling further Michael Johnson thought Bolt could break his 400 record.

athletics world champs is next month

how would you expect bolt to do if he entered the 400 and started training for it today

You do realize in high school the 400m was usain bolt best race right? if you give usain bolt a training camp to prepare for 400m he breaks records bro, he just doesn't want to put the extra time in to do that.

Bad? But the more direct parallel to this fight is how do I think bolt would have done if he decided to run the 400 six months before the 2012 olympics. And that would be pretty good imo.

Conor trains striking for MMA, not boxing. They're very different, even if both sports involve hitting someone with your hands. Just as tennis is different than ping pong or badminton, even though you use pretty much the same object to hit a ball/shuttlecock.

Also, Muay Thai and Kickbox are two different sports.

fair enough, i disagree and think he'd need more time but might be wrong

would point out that the analogous situation is not running the 2012 olympics, its running against 7 johnsonGOAT clones on 6 months prep

Except Floyd is 40

But this is stupid and distracts from the fact that Conor is going to get his face beat in

well yea thats his only possible out, floyd might be completely done due to olds. prolly not tho

The extent to which people missthis, either purposefully or not, is insane.

Bolt actually had a realistic chance to pull that off 100m, 200m, 400m gold medals if he had wanted to. He would be the only one in the world I would ever say that for, so far.

It would have put his 100/200 at risk doing longer distance training...but he had the body for it 6'5 long legs long strides eats up ground easy. I think he could've pulled it off, missed opportunity in the record books imo. When you're cruising past guy's in the 100m and beating them by 10 yards looking around celebrating already, you can afford for your 100 to suffer a little bit.

Not in the same olympics, no way. That schedule would be a nightmare, they plan so that 100m runners can run the 200 and 200m runners can run the 400 but for example in Rio the 100m finals was a half hour after the 400m. I'm sure if Bolt actually made it known he was trying that they would have flipped things around a bit but remember it's not just the finals you'd be adding 400m prelims and semis. I just don't see how he could compete in all three events even if he was good enough to do all three at the same time (and he probably couldn't have been simultaneously good enough to be at the highest level at both the 400 and the 100).

I mean this isn't swimming made up strokes, it's the best athletes in the world he's competing against.

Different but very similar, both muay thai and kickboxers fight in each other sports all the time, not even sure why you bring something like that up. Muay Thai is a different sport from mma as well but if you tell me a prime A.Silva is getting schooled in kickboxing just because he's an mma fighter you're out of your mind. Pretty sure Alistair Overeem knocked out Badr Hari in a kickboxing tournament & he's an mma fighter, guess what, Badr Hari was saying at the time that he's not losing to an mma fighter either hahah, look how that turned out.

What about mma guys who compete & do well in bjj tournaments? what you have to say about that? again i post this.



Chad was suppose to have no business being on the mat with Jeff Glover but still got the tap, so yea, keep saying mma guys can't compete in the individual sports they TRAIN IN just because they don't specialize in it.

Absolutely would've been a nightmare from a training standpoint and schedule standpoint... pretty much every standpoint. In part why they say it CAN'T be done. And, it won't be, if nobody as physically gifted as Bolt ever comes along again, and they have to be crazy enough to actually want to do it, that's the crazy part.

I do think it's humanly possible. Extremely extremely challenging feat. But, yeah LOL some serious hurdles in the way to put it mildly.

I never thought I see a guy break the 400m record running blind out of lane 9 either but that happened.

So here's what I don't understand about Conor slappies. They say stuff like

So the bolded seems to be conceding that Mayweather is going to be able to hit Conor very cleanly and very often.

Like, this is how hard Mayweather can punch:



looks pretty hard! Would Conor stand up to those punches better than Ortiz?

^^ scumbag after he did that, and no he won't ko him in the 1st.
Not hard to ko someone who is not defending themselves.

When you aren't expecting a hit you get knocked out easier, stupid video to bring up considering tis a scumbag move by a scumbag fighter in Floyd.

How will McGregor defend himself? It will be like boxing a mannequin for Floyd.

Protect yourself at all times imo

But why can't Floyd KO him in the first? People seem to be saying that Floyd will be able to land clean shots whenever he wants on Conor but also that Floyd doesn't have enough power to knock out Conor. That however hard Floyd hits Conor has been hit by harder. I'm saying, OK, this is how hard Floyd can hit. Could Conor have shrugged off those two punches? Seems, uh, dubious.

Alistair Cees Overeem is a Dutch mixed martial artist and former kickboxer. He is a former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, DREAM Interim Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and is one of only two fighters to hold world titles in both MMA and K-1 kickboxing at the same time. (Wikipedia)
that's because most MMA fighters train bjj on a regular basis, at an elite level. and again, check what I said earlier and RT's post
Conor does not train boxing.
yep, pretty funny how Floyd was trying to sell this numerous times as well, like here for example (4:20)