Lol. Pathetic how a 40 year old man can demolish and toy with a peak fighter in his youth like Mcgregor and it's the 40 year old guy that gets most of the criticism for negligible faults / errors? This is beyond pathetic!
Mcgregor is lucky it wasn't the Mayweather from the Arturo Gatti fight. Otherwise, he would've been brutally KOED.
Precisely. This is a 29 year old cage fighter in his prime who was walked down by a 40 year old legend with brittle hands. No excuse for McGregor and his fans after all the **** talking beforehand.
I figure Floyd will regret carrying him for a few rounds, as the guy wouldn't shut up afterwards and doesn't know the term humble in defeat.
If you watch the whole interview Mayweather alludes to the fact he is not happy with how the training camp has been.
Yeah man but we have to take this on balance -- in every other interview he's been up for it, talking ****. Why for this one alone, on a MMA channel, does he adopt all these doubts and this negativity? It's a sell IMO
This footage is from before his second bout with Diaz, about 15 months ago. Obviously he's improved since then. However even the recent Paulie leaks, and the photos on Instagram, show that he's still fighting with his right hand down, his chin up, his left over-extended, and a hell of a lot of slapping. I'm not buying the MMA community viewpoint that McGregor is purposefully revealing these flaws, that he's hiding his true ability to mislead and deceive. What he's hiding is his strategy, not his ability. Even with a clever strategy, his team have set him up to fail by sparring amateur fighters, and all the visualisation in the world won't help him overcome that.
I don't know how much McGregor drinks, but that whisky stunt at the end was just to advertise his own whisky --Notorious whisky or whatever it was called.
As you said, he turned his back multiple times, got hit with more jabs than I can recall him being hit with In a long time.
You should watch the fight again. McGregor repeatedly snuck behind Mayweather's back in those instances. I have a HQ copy of the fight if you want it.
McGregor connected well with that uppercut but let's be frank -- he doesn't have enough technique to generate the power to make his shots count. At the physical peak of his life he gassed after 4 rounds.
Just got done hitting the heavy bag i mean sparring Artem to prepare for floyd mayweather. :pat:
man he looked knackered in that interview, similar to the post-open workout routine. Amazing to think this guy's getting ready for Floyd with a couple amateur sparring partners and a ref to teach him the rules.
John Kavanagh was just on MMA Hour. He said McGregor will knock Floyd out within 1 minute if they stand in the centra of the ring and Floyd doesn't back up. Otherwise R6. I like the guy, he's calm, smart in his field, but he admitted to not knowing much about Mayweather before this fight and appears to be living in a bubble.
Miss leading photo, standing too close to the camera, i just watched the video of this interview and hes looking much smaller than usual. Also not sounding or looking anywhere near as confident.
Exactly. His fans are grasping onto every misleading photo or video (intentional or otherwise). That last comment of McGregor's about having been under the lights longer than any other opponent of Floyd's is just more BS.
if he was on welfare, that was his fault for not getting a regular 9-5 job like everyone else.
In the UK and Ireland, 'welfare' isn't anything as stigmatised as it is in the US. People get on and off benefits quickly and regularly when they're out of work or down-and-out or whatever. In the UK, back before Cameron, tens of thousands basically lived off the stuff for relatively little reason. You can't view it in (what I think of as) a US way as something awful and desperate.
why would floyd need to know what conor is doing? what happen to #easymoney?
He doesn't mate. McGregor is hiding his strategy, not his ability. The latter is out there.
I have no doubt that Paulie talked ***** on Conor, but honestly, what tactical advice would he have given and what would it matter?
I remember one of McGregor's coaches (I think it was Kavanagh while talking to Ariel) said that he was very pleased to see their strategy and the steps they planned work out well against Paulie. So there's that. But you know, strategy can only take you so far when your initial ability is limited.
Anyone else noticing that the closer the fight gets the less confident this guy seems?
Yeah I noticed the same. Over the past week or so it sounds like he's lost it.
And Floyd looked really sharp and strong and that one "leaked" sparring clip, that someone took without consent. Although, I have a feeling it was taped on purpose.
Anyone have that? I missed it
numpties man. What you don't see from this and the Showtime / UFC feed is that during the face-off (post weigh-in), Floyd's crossed hands were pushing McGregor back 3 times. He wasn't comfortable with the in-face spitting and screaming, but that doesn't mean **** for the fight when he lights him up.
First Mcgregor says he'd KO Floyd in 4 rounds, then 2 rounds, now it's 10 seconds and not even he believes the bull**** he's spewing.
Come fight night Mcgregor is going to be nervous, tight and wound up, he's gonna miss then he's gonna get hit, and finally he's gonna gas out and get stopped.
After toying with Mcgregor and beating him up at will, Floyd stops Mcnugget in round 6 with a body shot.
You heard it here first folks :boxing:
Sounds like a perfect summary to me. McGregor will be ultra tense and will play right into Mayweather's hands.
Well if he fights like that he's done. That ain't Chris Eubank's hope of an assault.
Off-topic: how do you embed a video here? I couldn't figure it out