Max Kellerman - "Connor wasn't even trying to hit that hard."

**Schmerzen** · 08-29-2017, 03:03 PM

when will people realize just because u can punch in the octagon doesn't mean u can punch in a boxing ring too. everything is different, it's ez to throw haymakers against those punching bags in the ufc, but this **** won't work against a pro boxer. teddy atlas the only one who made sense, he said conor is like floyd a counter puncher, and i agree with him. conor's power is way too overrated, maidana & mosley punch much harder than him.

**GGG Gloveking** · 08-29-2017, 03:06 PM

That sh it makes no fu�king sense to me. Conor wasn't trying to win? Did he think hed out point Floyd? Or get a lucky arm punch?

**Teetotaler** · 08-29-2017, 03:09 PM

His little flurries did look like weakass slaps. Did they even use the 8oz gloves they said they were gonna use?

**HanzGruber** · 08-29-2017, 03:10 PM

lol conor is ***ing weak and has no technique.. his goal was to ko him not out point him.. he knew he would never out box him. hes just not that strong

**NEETzsche** · 08-29-2017, 03:13 PM

It looked to me like he was trying to emulate Lomachenko in some ways, using throwaway shots to draw the counter, physically pulling Mayweather's guard down at times, and trying to spin him and then punch around the guard. He was just too ungainly to pull it off

**USMCer** · 08-29-2017, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by T3dBundy

when will people realize just because u can punch in the octagon doesn't mean u can punch in a boxing ring too. everything is different, it's ez to throw haymakers against those punching bags in the ufc, but this **** won't work against a pro boxer. teddy atlas the only one who made sense, he said conor is like floyd a counter puncher, and i agree with him. conor's power is way too overrated, maidana & mosley punch much harder than him.

There's a distinction, no doubt. The body is trained to specialize in different forms, but this is as much about gameplan as technique.

It was Conor's intent not to throw the big shots. He was more measured than he is in MMA. So we didn't get to see Conor employ his power in the ring against Floyd.

**elfag** · 08-29-2017, 03:17 PM

He had no power period. They only showed a few seconds of the Paulie sparring but he had no power there when he hit paulie with a flush straight left. I thought maybe he was just fatigued and throwing arm punches but then he hit mayweather with an uppercut in the 1st that had zero effect.

Power in MMA isnt the same as power in boxing. Mayweather hits ALOT harder than conor. Conor punches at a paulie M level or worse.

**USMCer** · 08-29-2017, 03:19 PM

Originally posted by el***

He had no power period. They only showed a few seconds of the Paulie sparring but he had no power there when he hit paulie with a flush straight left. I thought maybe he was just fatigued and throwing arm punches but then he hit mayweather with an uppercut in the 1st that had zero effect.

Power in MMA isnt the same as power in boxing. Mayweather hits ALOT harder than conor. Conor punches at a paulie M level or worse.

Didn't use it... is different than... Doesn't have it.

And it's Floyd ****en Mayweather, he's been stunned maybe 3 times, ever... if that.

**GhostofDempsey** · 08-29-2017, 03:26 PM

Basically, what he is saying is that Conor did not commit on his punches. Otherwise they would be telegraphed and easy to defend. He needed to keep them out in front of him thrown from the shoulder without a lot of torque on them. Some fighters can get a lot of pop on their punches from a short distance, others need more of a wind up. Joe Louis had the six inch punch that could KO an opponent from that distance because his power traveled from the ball of his foot, through the hip. Conor's punches were likely thrown strictly off the shoulder in order to land and score. Slightly more powerful than pitty-pat punches that are thrown to score and keep an opponent off balance.

Max Kellerman - "Connor wasn't even trying to hit that hard."