You're comparing a guy that couldn't even hang in the irish youth amateur boxing to the most complete boxer of all time. They're trying to push that guy as the white mayweather of mma and its just embarrassing. He will never have 1/10th the talent, 1/10th the athleticism and 1/100th the money mayweather has. Just stop. If the guy was that special he would have stayed in boxing and became a boxer, but no. I really don't care if conor could beat mayweather in a bar fight, I really don't. This is "PRIZE" fighting.
dominating the refined and mature sport of boxing for almost your whole career > doing well for yourself in the UFC for 2 maybe 3 years before getting beat McGregor is just another Rousey. Someone better will always come along...and Rousey didn't just get beat...she got outclassed and destroyed. Sorry MMA folks your sport is still years away from being an art like boxing. Just look at all the MMA stars...they didn't last long did they?
bro its like every 6 months someone in MMA comes along that is "the greatest of all time", then they get beat and they find someone else to hype. What a joke. What a plastic "sport".
McGregor will NEVER be the boxer Mayweather is. Mayweather will never be the MMA fighter McGregor is. They both have their strengths. Mayweather will kick McGregor's ass in a boxing match. McGregor will kick Mayweather's ass in the Octogon. People need to accept both sports for what they are instead of something that is a direct comparison.
To dominate boxing is 10000x harder than to dominate mma though. Mayweather was better at his craft than any mma fighter was. MMA is filled with guys that started training in their mid 20s.
The irony is that McGregor hates IVayweather. He said he was gonna tear down IVayweathers posters at the MGM, and said what's Floyd going to do about it? HAHA, nothing!
I like Conor and he is quite similar to Mayweather, but not in the ring/cage. Two completely different fighters, in that regard.
That's nonsense. It's much harder to dominate MMA than it is to dominate boxing. There are way too many variables in MMA to allow a fighter to dominate for a long time. That's why MMA fighters reign for a short period of time before getting dethrone. There are very few fighters has a complete set of MMA skills. McGregor is the best stand up fighter in MMA, but he's weak on the ground. Aldo was good on the ground and at striking, but McGregor was even better at striking. A MMA fighter can lose at any moment because there is too much to defend against. Boxers only have to worry about punches. MMA fighters have to worry about getting kicked, punched, elbowed, taken down, choked, getting their arms/legs broken, getting kneed in the face, etc.
Boxing is fighting with fists distilled down to a set of rules and punches allowed. It's been refined to the essentials almost to an art form even. It's hard enough doing just that, but now with mma, you have takedowns, kicking, grappling. There's just too many fields and variables to allow anyone to dominate for long. That's his point I think.
Of course it does. MMA fighters are more likely to get cut during a fight because of elbows. They're also more likely to suffer an injury during the fight or during training, degrading their performance faster over time. It's not uncommon for MMA fighters to have food injuries or knee injuries during training. Sometimes they don't come back the same.