Floyd Mayweather took care of Conor McGregor in the ring with a business as usual-type of performance.
He wasn’t throwing multiple combinations but instead, picked his shots carefully and did not over commit at any point during the fight. McGregor did his best in the earlier rounds but Floyd’s skill and experience were simply too much for the Irishman as he started to slowly gas out after the sixth round.
Even though his performance was good, Floyd’s training camp did not go through as smoothly. After the fight he explained to the media why.
Apparently, Mayweather battled a minor hand injury and couldn’t spar at all for the last month.
“We had a cool training camp, but I didn’t do any sparring for the last month. My hands are real brittle and I wanted them to be solid when I came out here.If I had a serious hard injury I wouldn’t have been able to hit so hard.”
But that didn’t stop Floyd from dismantling McGregor, who punched himself out and while Mayweather countered.
“I still have a hell of an IQ and I’m still a thinker. His punching power is solid but I’ve felt it before so I kept coming forward. It wasn’t the kind of power that stopped me coming forward.”
“Money” Mayweather also revealed what he said to McGregor during the fight, especially after the Irishman failed to deliver his promise of an early round knockout.
“Is that all you’ve got? You still haven’t knocked me out? You said it wouldn’t go past four, when are you going to use your power?” shouted Mayweather to Conor’s ear during rounds.
Floyd had a plan all along and it worked perfectly.
“I told you guys I’d come straight ahead. I could have sat back and counter-punched. My plan was to let him shoot heavy shots and take him down the stretch. I wanted to let him shoot heavy shots from the beginning.”
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