Efter att den forne boxningsmästaren Paulie Malignaggi lämnade Conor McGregors träningsläger på grund av läckta bilder från deras sparring har han figurerat mycket i medier där han pratar om händelsen.
Under onsdagen gästade han The Herd with Colin Cowherd där han pratade om sparringen om berättade att McGregor har svårt att anspassa sig till boxningens regler.
Rules are different in mixed martial arts than they are in boxing and he wanted to know what he’s doing wrong and what he’s doing right and what not so every single sparring session he had, [Hall of Fame referee] Joe Cortez was there.
One thing Conor has to understand – and you see that in that clip that they sent out – it wasn’t so much that he’s landing shots because most of the shots are missing. If anything, they’ve shot themselves in the foot because all the dirty stuff he does that the referee will actually warn him for. In that particular sparring session, there’s no judges, but he lost two points from that particular sparring session for fouls, for rabbit punching and hitting behind the head and pushing behind the head.
Ända sedan matchen blev officiell har det pratats om hur McGregor ska anpassa sig till boxningen och inte bryta några regler. Mayweather har sagt att McGregor kan vänta sig en saftig böter om han skulle till exempel slänga iväg en spark under matchen. Malignaggi tror att ett av McGregors största problem under matchen kommer vara att hålla sig till reglerna.
What he really has to learn is to try to keep it within the rules because he’s a little bit confused as to what he’s doing in there. He’s a little bit confused, especially on the inside as you can see on that tape. He’s trying to grab and push the head down. Inside fighting in boxing is very different from inside fighting in mixed martial arts. You can’t grab. You actually have to know what you’re doing on the inside. . .
I think Conor has to learn to turn punches over but more than that he needs to learn how to keep it clean. He’s gonna get himself disqualified if he keeps punching behind the head and pushing the head down. He needs to understand that inside fighting in boxing is different than inside fighting in mixed martial arts.
Och om McGregor lyckas att inte bli diskad säger Malignaggi att han har en chans, inte en stor, men en chans tack vare att han kan komma in i matchen med mer energi.
If you’re looking at it style-wise, it’s not a matchup. Style-wise, Conor can’t match Floyd at all. I think what you want to really look at for this matchup is the intensity. Conor’s the younger guy. He’s bringing that youthful intensity and the intensity Conor brings can sometimes be a change of pace. Floyd’s fought some great fighters, he’s beaten some great fighters, but all of them, to a degree, have had a little bit of respect for Floyd because they know how good he is and what he can do. Conor is coming in a little bit as a rookie. Call it ignorance is bliss in a way, but it also makes it more exciting because he’s not really coming with that kind of respect.
McGregor möter Mayweather den 26:e augusti i Las Vegas.
