Conor and Paulie Sparring Session

[moogie101]

Conor and his Team are crazy if they think that he's going to get his boxing skills up to compete with Floyd in just a couple of months. They are nuts if they are spending all their time on that. It's not going to happen. Forget pillow hands Paulie...I'd bring in the dirtiest fighters that have ever been in the sport and i'd come up with a better strategy to make this fight as ugly as possible. I"m definitely bringing in Maidana and Robert Garcia for a few days as they were the closest to getting it done.

McGregor just has to box his best and whatever happens, happens.. His chances are dim because Boxing is a closed fraternity.. You come into to boxing from the outside you're not treated fairly.. This is something Nate Diaz has pointed out in interviews will wreck McGregor's efforts.. "If Conor starts doing well or landing punches the referee will harass him for whatever he can.. can't do this.. can't do that"

If Mayweather grabs (illegal) that will be fine. The referee will yell "no punching" and break them.. If McGregor has a hand free to punch the referee will scream "NO PUNCHING!!! ... Break.. Let go gentlemen.. step back.. step back.. step back Conor" ... and the way the bell rings 5 seconds early or 5 seconds late, depending on who's landing punches? That will happen too. But one of Mayweather's better weapons is his left elbow. I doubt if that will come into play because an elbow from Conor could finish him.

Mayweather will already have every advantage known to man -- but forget about it -- they'll find more to give him.

Agree. Boxing is dirty. Mayweather generates the money and calls these things. Frustrating thing is he doesn't need the advantages, but has the anyway to make a 90% probability 99%

Playing Devils Advocate here, but if Floyd wins what other fights is he having that generates money? The likelihood is he cashes in & retires again which generates no more money for anyone.

BUT if Conor wins he ain't going back to the UFC to fight for a few million again when he could have several lucrative PPV fights as "boxing tries to get revenge" that would generate huge revenue for boxing over the next few years.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Conor is going to end up with a piece of the UFC. That's bigger than anything boxing has to offer.

[caldo2025]

Paulie Malignaggi is the perfect sparring partner for Conor McGregor right now. Vastly experienced, great ring generalship, elusive, difficult to pin down, low power/risk.
He's like a shadow of Mayweather. If McGregor was take on better sparring partners he'd risk losing this fight through injury.

If he can get the better of Malignaggi, and I doubt he can, he could step up with a month to go. McGregor will need a vertical learning curve and all the confidence he can get and even then he can't know what its like to come out for round 10 with nothing left in the tank.

Don't forget that Mayweather's big strength has always been his stamina as well as his defence. Nothing so far suggests that this is any kind of a contest.

Conor and his Team are crazy if they think that he's going to get his boxing skills up to compete with Floyd in just a couple of months. They are nuts if they are spending all their time on that. It's not going to happen. Forget pillow hands Paulie...I'd bring in the dirtiest fighters that have ever been in the sport and i'd come up with a better strategy to make this fight as ugly as possible. I"m definitely bringing in Maidana and Robert Garcia for a few days as they were the closest to getting it done.

McGregor just has to box his best and whatever happens, happens.. His chances are dim because Boxing is a closed fraternity.. You come into to boxing from the outside you're not treated fairly.. This is something Nate Diaz has pointed out in interviews will wreck McGregor's efforts.. "If Conor starts doing well or landing punches the referee will harass him for whatever he can.. can't do this.. can't do that"

If Mayweather grabs (illegal) that will be fine. The referee will yell "no punching" and break them.. If McGregor has a hand free to punch the referee will scream "NO PUNCHING!!! ... Break.. Let go gentlemen.. step back.. step back.. step back Conor" ... and the way the bell rings 5 seconds early or 5 seconds late, depending on who's landing punches? That will happen too. But one of Mayweather's better weapons is his left elbow. I doubt if that will come into play because an elbow from Conor could finish him.

Mayweather will already have every advantage known to man -- but forget about it -- they'll find more to give him.

Well, i'm glad that you're not in Conor's corner because that's a ridiculous strategy. Conor probably has more or as much boxing skill as Marcos Maidana did. I'd mimic that same game plan to see if the ref will allow it. If not, go to plan 2, 3, 4, 10...none of which would be "box and do his best", Along with Maidana's constant aggression and inside warfare, he did have the ability to throw overhand rights and lefts from unorthodox angles. Like GGG, Maidana can throw those punches that appear to be falling from the ceiling and behind the guard.
Conor needs to find something like this... some kind of unplanned unique surprise. The odds are tiny and slim but anyone can go especially 40 year old steroid junkies that pick one fight too many like Floyd.

You can't teach knockout power and Conor has it in spades with that golden left hand and he's super sneaky with it. I don't care what kind of fight you have with the guy, he's scary. I don't think he'll win or come close but Conor will do way better than most think.