5 Reasons Floyd Mayweather Will Beat Conor McGregor

The Biggest Fight in Combat Sports History is almost here. We’re less than two weeks away from this circus being over and everything returning to normal. Minus the part where the whole world isn’t normal.

Last week, I gave you five reasons Conor McGregor would beat Floyd Mayweather. This week, the task is much tougher as I try to come up with five reasons why Mayweather will beat McGregor. This task is tougher because you can only say “all he has to do is show up” so many different ways.

TO THE LIST!

5. Mayweather Shows Up
Based on All Access, Floyd Mayweather hasn’t trained a single second for this fight. He’s been shopping, roller skating, and going to strip clubs. McGregor has been training his ass off, while Mayweather has yet to step foot inside a gym unless it’s for a meet-and-greet. Even if this were true, Mayweather would still win.

If Floyd woke up from a 6-month coma on Aug. 26 and was told “you’re fighting Conor McGregor tonight,” I’m convinced that he would still win. Atrophy be damned. As long as Floyd is in the ring when the bell rings on Aug. 26, he’ll win this fight.

4. Mayweather Is Not Paulie Malignaggi
Everyone is making a big deal out of McGregor knocking down/pushing Malignaggi. It’s not a big deal. The 10-second clips that Dana White released are meaningless. Because they are just that. 10-second clips. Remember the training stories of James Toney submitting ‘King Mo’ prior to Toney’s bout with Randy Couture? How did that turn out for Toney?

Malignaggi is a good boxer with a shot chin who is at least two tiers below Mayweather. Conor keeping up with him makes for headlines and hot takes, but does nothing on fight night.

3. McGregor’s Mind Games Don’t Work
A lot of people attribute some of McGregor’s success in MMA to his ability to get into his opponent’s head. He gets fighters over emotional, has them abandoning their game plan almost immediately, and takes advantage of their mistakes. Against Mayweather, he’s tried the same tricks. He’s posted photos of him going after a downed opponent and throwing kicks. The Malignaggi leaks are part of his mind games as well. And he’s continued to talk an insane amount of trash.

That doesn’t quite work against Mayweather.

In MMA, McGregor is the money fight. It’s red panty night for other fighters when they sign for face Conor. On Aug. 26, it’s red panty night for him. Mayweather has every advantage in this fight and he knows it. There’s no reason for him to get over emotional or for him to care what Conor says or does. And it’s unlikely that he will.

2. CM Punk Lost His MMA Fight
Let me tell you the story of a man who tried a similar but different sport. He came from a sport that features grappling, wrestling, submissions, striking, clinch work, etc.…. It incorporated all aspects of MMA and then some. It’s much like MMA, which incorporates all aspects of boxing and then some. This man thought that because he perfected the more difficult sport, he would have an easy time in MMA.

This man lost in 2-minutes 14-seconds.

1. Mayweather Is 49-0
People used to rip on Floyd and his perfect record by saying, “he’s been protected.” I don’t know enough about his opponents throughout his career to know if that’s true or not. I know he fought a lot of the same guys Manny Pacquiao fought and no one criticized Manny for beating them.

Here’s what I do know: Winning 49 professional boxing bouts is extremely tough, no matter who you’ve faced. Think about it for a second. In a sport where the ultimate goal is to punch your opponent in the face until they can no longer stand, Mayweather has never fallen. He’s never been caught with that perfect punch that turned his lights out or even knocked him down.

Furthermore, he’s never lost a decision. In a sport where decisions go the other way all the time, even fights that aren’t close, Mayweather has never been on the wrong side. He’s won split decisions and majority decisions, but two judges have never given a fight to Mayweather’s opponents. He’s created almost no doubt in every fight.

He’s never failed a drug test or done something stupid in the ring to end up with a loss. Jon Jones is the greatest MMA fighter of all-time and even he has a blemish on his record due to forgetting the rules.

Mayweather’s boxing record is perfect and it’s doubtful that a MMA fighter will ruin it.

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