There’s been a lot of chatter about this potential mega fight. I don’t see it happening, but it’s fun to imagine.
Under boxing rules, I think it would be a 1st round knockout for Mayweather while under MMA rules, the exact opposite. Does anyone disagree?
Knowing Mayweather, the fight would only happen under boxing rules. However, could rules be changed so that it would be a fair fight for both fighters? If so, how?
I disagree. Mayweather will win a boxing match but a first round knockout is unlikely. Mayweather will lose an MMA fight but it’s going to be a mess and he may only lose on the cards. There’s nothing that could be done to make into anything but a moneymaker for Mayweather, which is why it’s unlikely to ever happen. It would be better if they just had some kind of charity exhibition event with some kind of limiting rules. Maybe no kicking, but in anything outside of boxing rules Mayweather has no chance. MacGregor could hold his own in a boxing match but has no chance of winning against someone with Mayweather’s skills.
ETA: I don’t think MacGregor has any interest in this besides the money. If he wanted to be a boxer he could start boxing, it’s easy, they’ll line up some tomato cans for him and he could rack up a decent record in no time.
If Mayweather dedicated himself he could match Conors’ BJJ brown belt in, maybe, 6 years. If Conor dedicated himself he could match Mayweathers’ boxing in…never. This is all a sick joke. No sanctioning body will touch this as a boxing match. MMA maybe(see the pathetic Toney-Couture). Not interested either way.
TO be fair, Toney was much more washed up when he faced Couture, and Couture was more of a grappler. McGregor is nowhere near the striker Mayweather is.
In a boxing match, Mayweather easily. In MMA, if McGregor concentrates on establishing the clinch, it is more or less a toss-up.
I won’t watch, since I hate Mayweather. I will simply hope the match comes off as MMA, and Mayweather is badly beaten and humiliated.
Regards,
Shodan
This fight probably won’t happen and it definitely won’t happen in anything other than boxing format. And in that case, Mayweather probably wins easy. No sense in even speculating about an MMA fight.
Under MMA rules Mayweather would be punching him in the head with no gloves on, correct?
They can wear gloves. They’re not boxing gloves, I don’t know if they can tape their hands. It shouldn’t matter much to Mayweather because he doesn’t have to knock MacGregor out to win with his boxing skills, but unless he can avoid grappling he’s going to lose anyway.
I think you’re underestimating what a series of bare fisted punches from Floyd Mayweather represents.
I’m not. It would represent broken hands. He’s not a bare knuckle fighter. He has power in his punches but he’s not a knockout artist. As a matter of fact he had hand problems early in his career and he’s been careful to limit his power punching. It still doesn’t matter, he’s not an MMA fighter, he has no chance in that format. MacGregor in a boxing match has a microscopically better chance against Mayweather in a boxing match.
Really, these things never work out. MMA was started in it’s current form to see if particular styles have an advantage over the other. It hasn’t demonstrated that so far, the winners need some level of expertise in punching, kicking, grappling, and defense in all three. Boxing is a very limited sport, the forehand punch is the only legal move, and champion boxers far exceed the punching skills of any MMA champions. This is like having the current Super Bowl winning team face the current World Series winning team in some sort of sporting event, each would win in their own sport, and having them compete in any other sport wouldn’t tell us anything.
If they really want to do something they should schedule two fights, one boxing, one MMA, the results will be expected but at least it could be interesting to see how well each one crosses over.
Probably not one half of what a shin to the side of the head would do to Mayweather. Mayweather might also have trouble pulling off the shoulder roll with little gloves. Mayweather is one of the greatest boxers ever and in a boxing match Connor would be lucky to touch him. However I don’t think Mayweather would fair well at all in a MMA match. A boxers sideways stance leave them very exposed to leg kicks, and I believe that Connor has used the oblique effectively to maintain range in the past. The sideways stance also makes it harder to defend a takedown. Couture took down Toney with a zero setup ankle pick. It has been a while since I have watched Floyd fight, but I remember him clinching often when fighters got inside with him. One clinch or takedown against Connor and he will go to sleep or be tapped. Connor is not great on the ground by MMA standards, but unless Floyd has been secretly training for years, Connor will make him look foolish on the ground.
No, it’s not. In a MMA fight McGregor takes Mayweather down and submits him within the first minute. We’ve seen this countless times in the early history of the UFC. Punchers with no grappling skills get trashed. Their only chance is a one hit knock out. Once that first strike misses and they’re taken down or it’s a clinch, the match is over.
A potentially interesting match up would be something like Thai Kickboxing rules. I presume McGregor is much more experienced with kicks and elbows. That might make up for his far inferior punching ability.
I was about to post something similar. Kickboxing would appear to be the most competitive match-up. Any wrestling involved and McGregor should comfortably win. In a boxing match McGregor is most likely knocked out in the first round. I disagree with those earlier who said McGregor would reach the 2nd round against Mayweather in a boxing bout. McGregor would be the worst boxer Mayweather has fought as a professional. Mayweather probably wont be holding back knowing he’s almost certainly not going to be hit in return.
MacGregor can still clinch effectively. Mayweather isn’t the type to try for first round knockouts anyway, he’d be just as cautious as he is with real boxers, he’ll jab away at MacGregor until he can take him out. That will probably be the second round, but MacGregor has some chance of staying away for a while.
Only meant it seems easier to get an athletic commission to sanction a lopsided MMA fight than boxing. I think Couture was Toney’s first professional fight. Against a former multi-class champ. Pathetic that the UFC put the fight together. Even more pathetic that Massachusetts sanctioned it. I don’t see that happening with boxing. And Mayweather-McGregor is even more of a mismatch. Maybe they’d do it in Macau unsanctioned or something but hopefully not.
Couture vs. Toney was a marketing venture. Nobody believed it would be competitive. If Mayweather vs. MacGregor comes off it will be the same kind of thing. MMA needs the big names boxing has to draw more money and attention to the sport. The boxers just want the easy paychecks.
If it’s under boxing rules, there’s no way Mayweather loses. Mayweather could probably beat UFC guys above his weight under boxing rules. Not sure if he’d knock them out but he’d give them the boxing lesson of a lifetime for sure.
Under MMA rules? Mayweather would get beaten up by any number of the women in the UFC, let alone the guys. Not saying that Money’s a wuss or anything like that, but it’s a different sport altogether. Lots of dudes are great athletes, but they’d lose to women if they tried to crossover into a sport against a professional female athlete.
Holm-Rousey is too fresh in my mind to say what I used to say - that the grappler always wins easily against a striker.
As a matter of fact, I seem to recall rumors of an MMA match between Rousey and Mayweather, back before Rousey got her ass handed to her.
But again, here’s hoping that whoever Mayweather fights next, it ends up with him being carried out of the ring bleeding from the ears.
Regards,
Shodan
I was saying there’s zero chance he agrees to MMA format so it won’t matter what his bare-fisted punch does.
If a grappler thinks she’s a striker and she’s not, the one who is a real striker wins. Maybe MacGregor will make the same mistake in the fantasy world where he and Mayweather step into the octagon.
In a boxing fight McGregor has no chance other than a ‘puncher’s chance’ and even that I doubt. In an MMA fight Mayweather loses.
From the stances to the kicks to the take downs he loses. He has a much better ‘puncher’s chance’ than McGregor does in the boxing but that’s it.
in MMA Mayweather is submitted or ground and pounded to TKO.