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Originally Posted by peteremsley
I'm not sure I agree with that. He got stunned a couple of times. Up until about round 5, I thought McGregor was gonna win.
I lost my $20 by taking McGregor for the knockout in the second, paid $25 to watch it in a sports bar, $50 in spiked Ubers. Fantastic guys night out 
Are we ready to pay for for the rematch? McGregor rools? |
MacGtegor has no prior public boxing matches.
There was really no "tape" for Mayweather to study.
Advantage MacGregor.
Mayweather really had only two choices.
Go in aggressively for a quick win and leave himself open for getting his clock cleaned or do what has worked his entire career, rely on his defensive skills to buy him time to figure out how MacGregor fights.
Get a sense of his style, timing, how he reacts to offense and let him wear himself down.
A professional fighter is going to get hit, no way around that and Floyd knew exactly what he was doing.
The fight went exactly the way he wanted it to go including taking some shots early on.