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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I give McGregor all kinds of credit for sticking around for 10 rounds, that's impressive considering that the cardio requirements for boxing and the technique requirements for boxing are completely different.
However on the other side of it, truthfully he was facing a 40 year old Mayweather that hadn't been in the ring in a couple of years. Once Mayweather knocked off his ring rust this one was over.
It was a stupid fight concept from the very start.
Its equivalent to the whole put a caveman and an astronaut in a fight with each other and wonder what would happen.
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I don't even think it was ring rust though. Mayweather just let him punch himself out, and then put him down. Conor lasted ten rounds because Floyd let him. Basically he toyed with him and decided in the 9th round to end it. McGregor survived that and managed to run around for part of the tenth.
I think after the first round in Floyd's corner they even said that he was going to be punched out after 4 rounds. It was just a good game plan for Floyd.