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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
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.
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Mayweather won the fight because he knows how to box and has nearly 3 decades in the sport. McGregor against any fighter is going to lose, in fact, against a more aggressive opponent he loses hard. Frankly his punching technique was terrible as far as boxers go, his timing is terrible as far as boxers go, His stance wasn't great nor his footwork.
Mayweather pretty much figured out his timing and his lack of technique and that a MMA fighter isn't going to have the same endurance as a boxer and turned them against him. In the end the ref stepped in and stopped the fight because there was a real likely hood that Mayweather probably would have lit him up going forward.
The only reason why this fight went forward is that it was unlikely that Mayweather was going to hurt McGregor, Mayweather dosen't fight that way, he's one of the best technical boxers in history, he's more defense in front of offense, and he's also savvy enough to know that there was no chance that a rookie boxing McGregor was going to hurt him. Everything else is sideshow.
If this had been McGregor against a guy who's strategy is to break inside and use power, there's a likelyhood that we would have seen something gruesome on PPV.
And training for a year doesn't give you the ability to fight hard for 10 or 12 rounds.
That's a life time of training.