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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Mayweather's not a knockout specialist.
You put McGregor with a power boxer and he goes down.
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How many 150 lb knockout specialist are there that's going to be able to knock out a bigger man like McGregor if he's actually protecting himself? At the end of the fight McGregor couldn't even lift his hands to block punches so anyone knocking out a man in that situation isn't exactly impressive. Maybe in the first three rounds another boxer gets overly aggressive and tagged by McGregor? You can play the "what if" game forever as few people actually thought the fight would go near 10 rounds and it did. At the end of the day Mayweather won the fight because he's better conditioned for a long fight. He certainly wasn't outclassing McGregor when he had stamina. Not having the stamina to fight more than five rounds isn't an excuse for losing but I think MMA comes out a winner in this one based on the result because McGregor was never going to win the fight but he almost went the distance.