He's sparring Kevin Lee, a UFC fighter that's around Mcgregor's size , but has an even longer reach(77 inches).
Reach is a non issue for Floyd. It mainly matters on the outside. If Mcgregor is trying to outbox Mayweather with only a 2 inch reach advantage he's ****ing up to begin with in my opinion.
Lee is a smart pick to spar, he's strong as hell and uses his reach to land bombs. Word is Floyd has 3 or 4 MMA guys he is sparring with, but he's also bringing in more traditional guys too. He'll be ready for whatever McGregor has.
Lee is a smart pick to spar, he's strong as hell and uses his reach to land bombs. Word is Floyd has 3 or 4 MMA guys he is sparring with, but he's also bringing in more traditional guys too. He'll be ready for whatever McGregor has.
Nice. Don't know much about him, but I'd assume he'd help out a lot in the clinch and gauging distance.
Either way I'm sure somebody that's been boxing since forever has ran into some guy's with longer reach(Whether just in the gym sparring, or the amateurs). Conor's got some hands, but he doesn't have the craft IMO to lean on an advantage that small. He needs to be pressing him if he wants to win.
He's sparring Kevin Lee, a UFC fighter that's around Mcgregor's size , but has an even longer reach(77 inches).
Reach is a non issue for Floyd. It mainly matters on the outside. If Mcgregor is trying to outbox Mayweather with only a 2 inch reach advantage he's ****ing up to begin with in my opinion.
Floyd is used to fighting cats whom he has a reach advantage over.
I've been studying McGreggor and he has this deceptive timing, he hits cats when they think he's out of range, that's because of those long ass arms he has.
TBE might be in for a shock as he isn't used to fighting a dude who has height reach and weight on him.
I think he will give TBE a tougher fight than Manny
That would be embarassing. Cause if the first guy who has an advantage against Floyd with 0 boxing would give Floyd a tough fight... Could we call Floyd a hypejob?
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