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Conor McGregor Should Risk Floyd Mayweather DQ over KO, Says Justin Buchholz

MMA coach Justin Buchholz believes Conor McGregor should risk potential disqualification in an attempt to avoid being knocked out by Floyd Mayweather when they meet on August 26.
McGregor, who has never been involved in a professional boxing bout…

MMA coach Justin Buchholz believes Conor McGregor should risk potential disqualification in an attempt to avoid being knocked out by Floyd Mayweather when they meet on August 26.

McGregor, who has never been involved in a professional boxing bout, is a big underdog when the two meet. It means something special is required to beat Mayweather, who is undefeated in 49 professional bouts.

Team Alpha Male coach Buchholz believes McGregor needs to take a risk as a result, per Brett Okamoto of ESPN.com:

“That’s why I’d say, when Floyd starts picking him apart, McGregor needs to turn it into an MMA fight at the risk of being DQ’d.

“If it’s Round 4 and you’re saying, ‘We’ve got no chance, this guy’s picking us apart, we don’t even want to move in there because we’re going to get knocked out’—next time you get into the clinch, double leg him. It’s better to get DQ’d than knocked the f–k out.”

Buchholz has made his name coaching the likes of Cody Garbrandt and Urijah Faber, and he will be recognisable to viewers of the recently concluded The Ultimate Fighter: Redemption, in which he got into heated exchanges with ex-Alpha Male star TJ Dillashaw.

Given McGregor has no professional boxing experience, it’d be no surprise to see him do something out of the ordinary in an attempt to disrupt Mayweather.

As well as suggesting McGregor should risk disqualification, Buchholz also outlined a blueprint of sorts for how the Irishman gets a foothold in the contest that falls within the rules.

“Go in there, get in his face right off the bat and try to win a round,” he said. “First three rounds, win one of them by just being aggressive. Floyd can fight in the clinch, and he’ll stick his elbow up in your face. But we’re talking about an MMA fighter with McGregor.”

MMA journalist Chamatkar Sandhu insisted he wouldn’t be surprised to see the UFC lightweight champion break boxing regulations:

However, as reported by Martin Rogers of USA Today, UFC President Dana White has confirmed that the most pertinent point on the fight contract prevents McGregor from tossing elbows or attempting to throw any kicks at the man known as Money.

Mayweather will be ready for some unorthodox tactics from his opponent. Still, the 40-year-old is a canny fighter and a supreme competitor, so expect him to be ready for whatever the Notorious brings to the ring. Within reason, at least.

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Floyd Mayweather Reacts To Rumors Of Conor McGregor Being KO’d In Training Camp

We are now just weeks away from the Aug. 26 showdown between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor. Training camp is likely heating up for both men, and McGregor, specifically, has documented his on social media. From his perspective, it seems to be going well, although former WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas recently made headlines when […]

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We are now just weeks away from the Aug. 26 showdown between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.

Training camp is likely heating up for both men, and McGregor, specifically, has documented his on social media. From his perspective, it seems to be going well, although former WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas recently made headlines when he said that McGregor was knocked out during sparring in preparation for the bout.

There has been no footage presented to support Vargas’ claims, however, and until there is, Mayweather isn’t believing the rumors:

“My thing is basically like this, if I ain’t seen no footage, I don’t believe it,” Mayweather told Fight Hype. “And me and Jessie Vargas are in communication. We’ve been communicating, but everything is just rumors until I see it. I have to visually see it with my own eyes.”

McGregor, the UFC’s lightweight champion, has never been knocked out during his MMA career, although he’s never competed in a professional boxing match. He’s coming off of a brutal knockout victory over Eddie Alvarez in which he won the promotion’s lightweight title at UFC 205 last November.

Mayweather, on the other hand, hasn’t competed since a September 2015 decision victory over Andre Berto. The 40-year-old former five division champion came out of retirement this year in order to fight McGregor.

Do you believe the rumors?

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Conor McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather Betting Odds Drop to Under 4-1 for Notorious

Conor McGregor opened as a +950 underdog (wager $100 to win $950) for his megafight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. when buzz started to circulate last November that the two could duke it out in a boxing match, but his odds have shifted in a positive dire…

As of Tuesday, McGregor is listed as a +375 underdog, with Money a -550 favorite.

Additionally, bettors can get McGregor at +450 if they think he will win by knockout or +1000 if they think he can outlast Mayweather via decision.

Money, meanwhile, is -140 to win by knockout—a result he hasn’t secured since 2011 against Victor Ortiz—and +250 to win by decision.

On Tuesday, Bovada sportsbook manager Kevin Bradley told Yahoo Sports’ Kevin Iole there has been a heavy volume of wagers on the fight, and the books could hemorrhage cash if the UFC lightweight champion pulls off a stunning knockout upset.

“One thing is for sure though, we will need Mayweather huge,” Bradley said. “A McGregor early round KO as he promised would be a potential disaster and is partly a reason we are giving a great price on Mayweather at the moment.”

Bradley also said he thinks there’s a good chance betting for the fight will outpace the Super Bowl after the fighters’ international press tour generated additional interest in the unprecedented clash.

“We knew this fight would be big, potentially even bigger than the Super Bowl, but now we are almost certain it will be,” he said.

Odds courtesy of OddsShark.

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Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor Betting Reportedly May Surpass Super Bowl

Kevin Bradley, Bovada’s sports book manager, told Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports that betting on the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor fight will likely surpass the Super Bowl:
“We knew this fight would be big, potentially even bigger than the Super Bowl…

Kevin Bradley, Bovada’s sports book manager, told Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports that betting on the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor fight will likely surpass the Super Bowl:

“We knew this fight would be big, potentially even bigger than the Super Bowl, but now we are almost certain it will be. The recent trash talking and promotional tour is only encouraging bets and at this rate we cannot even imagine how much we will take on it. One thing is for sure though, we will need Mayweather huge. A McGregor early round KO as he promised would be a potential disaster and is partly a reason we are giving a great price on Mayweather at the moment.”

Iole broke down some of the odds being offered for the fight:

“Bovada released a slew of wagering possibilities, but the odds on McGregor have dropped significantly. Mayweather is down to minus-500, while McGregor is now at plus-350.

“Amazingly, on the proposition bet, Will Mayweather be knocked down or out, yes is only at plus-350. Mayweather is 49-0 and has only been down once in his career, and that came when he intentionally touched the canvas with his glove in the final round of a fight he was winning big because his hand was injured and he wanted a brief break.”

Mayweather is justifiably the heavy favorite in this fight, given his unblemished record and the fact that McGregor’s background is in mixed martial arts, not boxing. In an MMA fight, McGregor would be the prohibitive favorite.

There are reasons to believe Mayweather could at least be somewhat vulnerable, however. He’s 40 and 11 years older than McGregor. He hasn’t fought since Sept. 2015, when he beat Andre Berto in a unanimous decision. And given that McGregor has never boxed professionally, Mayweather won’t have film to study on his boxing or a clear understanding of McGregor’s game plan.

It isn’t necessarily hard to envision how McGregor will attack Mayweather, of course—like many boxers before him, he’ll likely try to crowd Mayweather as much as possible to neutralize his elite speed and reaction time and overwhelm him with superior power.

Given Mayweather’s perfect record, however, it’s not as though that strategy has ever completely worked. And while McGregor features a formidable combination of speed and power himself, is the first-time boxer likely to be a more difficult opponent than experienced boxers like Manny Pacquiao, Canelo Alvarez, Miguel Cotto, Shane Mosley, Juan Manuel Marquez, Ricky Hatton or Oscar De La Hoya, previous victims of Mayweather’s brilliance?

No, not likely.

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Former Two-Weight Boxing Champ Set To Join Conor McGregor’s Fight Camp

Conor McGregor has made yet another move in regards to his preparation for his scheduled boxing bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. next month (Sat. August 26, 2017). The UFC lightweight champ is set to make his professional boxing debut against, arguably, the greatest off all time in undefeated 49-0 boxing legend Floyd Mayweather. The highly-anticipated […]

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Conor McGregor has made yet another move in regards to his preparation for his scheduled boxing bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. next month (Sat. August 26, 2017).

The UFC lightweight champ is set to make his professional boxing debut against, arguably, the greatest off all time in undefeated 49-0 boxing legend Floyd Mayweather. The highly-anticipated superfight just wrapped up a four stop World Tour to promote the match-up, in which McGregor and Mayweather got to show off their gifts of gab as they engaged in a slew of trash-talk on stage in front of fight fans.

Serving as an analyst on the Showtime pre and post shows for the first three stops of the World Tour was none other than former two-weight boxing champ Paulie Malignaggi, who had been unsure if he was going to get the opportunity to be a part of “The Notorious One’s” training camp for the Mayweather fight.

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On yesterday’s (Mon. July 17, 2017) episode of The MMA Hour, however, Malignaggi revealed that he now is set to head out to Las Vegas tomorrow and begin helping Team McGregor prepare for August 26th (quotes via MMA Fighting):

“We’ve discussed a couple potential things, but I don’t know (how long I’ll be out there), it’ll depend on them,” Malignaggi said. “I’ve always been in camp that’s been my training camp. I’ve never been in somebody else’s training camp. Even when I was a prospect and I helped champions get ready for their fights, it was mostly at home where I came up in Gleason’s Gym in New York, where there’s so many champions training there.

“A lot of times, I sparred with them a lot during their training camps in Gleason’s, but I was never a guy who was brought into camp as a sparring partner where I had to leave my house, where I had to leave home.”

Malignaggi admitted that when he first caught wind that McGregor had obtained his boxing license he attempted to get under the Irishman’s skin in hopes of landing a big-money bout against the MMA superstar. Now Malignaggi has since retired from active competition and instead look forward to having a ‘knock’ with McGregor privately inside the gym:

“When Conor got his boxing license, all the boxers looked at it like, ‘wow, this is a big paycheck here, and it’s a guy who’s probably a little bit (more) limited than your basic world-class boxer,’ so everybody’s trying to get in there. So me, using my trash-talking ability that I have, me knowing that I’m one of the better known fighters in the business, I kind of put myself at the forefront,” Malignaggi said.

“I tried to talk a little bit of trash and get under his skin and try to see if he would take the bait. So the trash talk was done about six months ago, I was looking to get the fight.”

“I’ve since lost my last fight and retired, so that’s actually out the window,” he continued. “But I think that basically what they’re looking at and what he’s talking about is probably the trash talking way back then, and yeah, we’re going to have a knock in the gym.”

“But listen, from a fighter’s perspective, you have in a knock in the gym anyway. Even if you’re best friends with the guy you’re sparring, you’re still going to have a knock in there. That’s just the way sparring goes, especially at a world-class championship level in the gym at sparring. I’ve never been a part of a training camp where sparring was light.”

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Floyd Mayweather Reportedly Was Harassed by Fans Leaving Conor McGregor Presser

Fans of Conor McGregor reportedly harassed Floyd Mayweather Jr. outside of the SSE Arena in London after the last press conference of the fighters’ world tour, swarming Money’s Rolls-Royce as he tried to leave.
TMZ Sports reported the news and als…

TMZ Sports reported the news and also shared this video, in which Mayweather’s car appeared to hit a member of the security team as he tried to escape (warning: video NSFW):

Mayweather and McGregor embarked on a four-day press tour to promote their bout Aug. 26 in Las Vegas, and it finished in London on Friday. UFC President Dana White correctly predicted Mayweather’s reception in England, as the crowd had been on the Irishman’s side throughout the tour, per UFC commentator Jon Anik:

Per CNN’s Nicholas Glass, the tour accomplished its purpose, attracting tons of new fans and adding to the gigantic purse.

At 49-0 for his career, Mayweather is the clear favourite inside the ring.

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