MMA Fighters learn to box differently

Yep, Conor was out boxing lil Floyd for 3-4 rounds and Floyd had to fight like a Mexican club fighter to win.

 

I wasn't being sarcastic. When have you ever seen Floyd walking towards an opponent with a high guard like a club fighter? He knew he had to walk him down and make it a dog fight.

 

Yes floyd was going to win, we all knew that. I expected a counterpunching exhibition where Conor was going to be throughly outboxed from the opening bell and maybe saved by the ref in the 5-6 rounds.

What I didn't expect was Conor winning 1-3 rounds and maybe draw in the 4th, and floyd having to walk forward with a clumsy high guard to try and TKO Conor. Even Conor's corner didn't expect that, according to the post-fight interview.

 

Fury disgraced himself and the sport. Let's not get away from that and credit mma fighters as being competitive with boxing champions at boxing. They just aren't. Fury is a bum and Ngannou exploited that. It's not going to happen like that again if more cross over.

 

Depends, a lot of MMA guys just go to a boxing gym for their boxing work and rarely will a boxing trainer adjust their regimen for an MMA guy. Conor had boxed, he knew boxing, he just wasn't nearly as good as Mayweather. In heavyweight boxing, size and pace both decrease the skill gap among the top fighters.

 

boxing is being exposed pretty bad. And yes awkward fighters are always hard to deal with, which is why floyd had a bit of trouble with drunken master augustus. Weird punches from weird angles and off beat rhythm/footwork hard to time. Floyd did not carry connor either, he employed a genius strategy of tiring him out then going for the kill later knowing connor didnt have top tier boxing cardio like that.

 

Connor isn't capable of outboxing Floyd. He was throwing pitty pat "punches". If he actually tried to load up, he would struggle to land. And this was against a much smaller and older guy. If McGregor was such a master boxer, why not fight a guy his size and age like Canelo?

Floyd carried McGregor. Period.

 

You're smarter than me, I expected Floyd to easily counter him and demonstrate elite class boxing speed and accuracy.

 

Mma is just the superior sport, beeing awkward and unorthodox is encouraged in this there by the idea of: if it works it works.
Boxing on the other hand is held captive by nostalgia and a very strict Idea of what it should be.
Thats the reason why there is almost no stylistic difference in the amateurs.