This is the easiest fight Floyd has had since he beat up that girl for her lunch money when he was 5 years old.

Not that it makes any difference in this fight but If mcgregor stuck with boxing and never went to mma would he be a better boxer than he is now? Gotta think his success and earnings in mma have allowed him better top class training to surpass the level he would likely have reached if he stuck to boxing where he would prob still be a part timer

Of course he would be a better boxer if he trained as a boxer for a decade. How is that even a question? Would he be good enough to be a successful pro boxer? Unclear, but seems doubtful as he quit boxing because he wasn't very good.

come on he's beat up plenty of women since he was 5.

yes he'd be a better boxer if he stuck with boxing. a few months of top coaching won't replace a lifetime of training and fighting experience

I think it's possible that the MMA route has given him a unique perspective into the essence of fighting, as opposed to the ramblings of punch drunk old guys trying to stay relevant via careers as a trainers.

Does this UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE involve awkwardness and angles?

I love me some Conor but as a fan & a guy routing for him, if Floyd looks anything like how he has in the past & Conor as well then i see him gassing out after 5-6rounds & Floyd tkoing him in the 7-9th rnd & the fight being exciting but one sided. Conor will have good/fun moments in the early rnds putting on pressure but he shouldn't land cleanly & Floyd should pick him apart in the later rounds.

Now what could happen & i'm hoping, is that Floyd is shot & his timing & speed is just way off & his hands break in the 1st rnd & Conor breaks him towards the 4-6th rnd and gets the ko.

Btw, USADA is suppose to be random testing these guys, paid for by the ufc, anybody heard anything on this? i think it's pretty huge cause Floyd is 40 & i don't trust that any of these boxers are clean. I know Floyd likes to get injections in his hands to numb pain, that really shouldn't be legal.

Stop talking nonsense, Conor started boxing at age 12 & won the Junior championship in Ireland(under 16) & he left the boxing gym at age 17 to pursue mma. His old boxing coach says he could've won the seniors & been a good boxer but he took up bjj/wrestling and wanted to do mma instead. Get your facts str8 buddy.

Definitely the optimal strategy for Connor is to trick Floyd into punching him in the face really hard so Floyd breads both his hands early in the fight

So he won like the lightweight division under 16 championship of a country with six million people? I mean good for him, but that seems, uh, not terribly impressive. How many 14 or 15 year old boxers are in a particular weight class in Ireland at any given time? Can't be all that many.

Seems like if he had a legit shot at a pro boxing career he would have taken it. He didn't.

Ireland has a strong boxing scene but I have never even seen evidence he won any national junior titles. Some sort of internet rumour. Even if true it's not really relevant. He left at age 17? Amir Khan was medalling at the Olympics at that age. Lol he would have been on his way to training for the Olympics if he had talent at that age. That's our only Olympic sport we send any decent athletes at all.

And how many of those kids were even sober?

all these comparisons are so dumb. Conor isn't Pacquio, Conor isn't Amir Khan he is Conor Mcgregor. He thinks differently than all these people. He has a completely different mental game and a whole different skill set.

"Conor can't beat Floyd cause he wasn't in the olympics when he was 16".


Just LOL

Conor can't beat Floyd because he doesn't have a trainer with Parkinsons.

Conor can't beat Floyd because he hasn't spent the last 10 years in gym wars.

Conor can't beat Floyd because he's white.

Conor can't beat Floyd because weight classes and reach are irrelevant.

Conor can't beat Floyd because he hasn't beaten guys who have held titles at 137 lbs.

Connor can't beat Floyd because he isn't a boxer

Conor can't beat Floyd because he hasn't gone 20-0 against guys who work the night shift at UPS.

*skillset does not include boxing skill

If they trained to box during the day, they would likely be very good boxers.

I mean lol if that's what you took from it. It was a response to the guy who was trying to claim he had some sort of relevant boxing skill/history. He doesn't.

Also Pacquiao or Khan would destroy him in a boxing match. Glass jaw Khan would absolutely mince him.

Indeed, dey don't tink like he tinks

It's hard to believe that the CM slappies actually believe this **** and aren't just trolling:

Not when compared to possibly the greatest defensive fighter of all time.

Maybe if he changed his name to Aussie McAusserson and fought in Sydney with the same idiot judges from the Horn/Pacquiao fight...

In boxing terms, he IS some bum off the street

People are really stupid. I mean, really, really, really stupid.

Yes, he is much more skillful.

As far as technique goes, think of it like this 3d graph

All of those peaks are different techniques. The giant one in the middle is the generalized "boxing" technique that has developed over the years. Sure, you can try something different but the peak that is available to you is significantly lower than what is available to someone who is training in the "correct" technique. It might look better when it's used against someone who is using a similar technique, or one that is even worse; but decades of evolution and improvement of the boxing technique means that it's extremely unlikely that there is another path out there that has a higher peak, or one that's even close. If there was some sort of secret "angles and stance" technique that could trip up the best boxers someone would have found it by now.

Something similar has happened in MMA since it started. All the different fighting styles had their own local peaks and once they started interacting with each other the lesser ones started falling by the wayside and the best started incorporating other styles and techniques.

"Very good" compared to the chance that I beat FM. But really this has to be <1% chance for CM. Floyd is 49-0. That's thousands of minutes in the ring against guys who were legit boxers and in none of those minutes were any of those guys able to do anything against him. His most realistic chance of winning is some combination of a fluke (headbutt makes FM woozy; FM accidentally steps on CM's foot, twisting his ankle and leaving him unable to move like he needs to; CM steps on FM's foot and FM twists and damages his knee as he tries to move away) followed by a lucky punch.

David Duke, Steve Bannon, and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III are the judges and the fight goes the distance - how often does CM win?

I get that multiple hours of playing dungeons and dragons might make one think they're an expert at all thing involving strategy.

However, can you atleast concede that Floyd loses to Andre Ward and has a lot of trouble against triple G because of his weight disadvantage?

Wait who do you think would have trouble conceding that Floyd (at any age, let alone 40) loses to the light heavyweight champion of the world?

That's like that video I posted above of Duran (one of the greatest boxers of all time) getting destroyed by Hearns. Of course champion boxers get destroyed when they fight other champion boxers 20 pounds above their natural class!