En matchning mellan Conor McGregor och Floyd Mayweather såg ganska avlägsen ut fram tills igår, då Dana White förklarade att han nu erbjuder de båda stora summor pengar plus PPV för att mötas.
Den pensionerade UFC-welterviktaren Chris Lytle var professionell boxare innan han började med MMA och anser att detta är en mycket smart matchning.
Via MMAWeekly:
It makes complete sense for Conor McGregor to want to go fight Floyd Mayweather because Floyd doesn’t really knock anybody out. He’s not a hard puncher. He’ll out-jab you a few times and make you go the distance. So it’s a great fight for him. He’d probably make $50 million, maybe $100 million. I don’t know what he’d make, but he’d make a ton of money.
I think it’s a smart fight for Floyd because Floyd is all worried about his reputation and this would be a big match-up, a big main guy, and I think he feels like he definitely has the boxing advantage against him. I think it’s a very smart fight for both guys.
People don’t realize that elite level of boxing is very, very good. I think at the very elite level, (McGregor) wouldn’t fare so well. I think he could beat your average boxer and even some good boxers. But you start throwing in some elite boxers, I think it would be very difficult because that is all those boxers do. That’s all they’ve trained at for many, many, many years.
When you do MMA, you do grappling, you do kickboxing, you do boxing. You do a lot, but you’re not doing what they do. It’s a little bit different and I think that really pushes the advantage to those boxers.
