A short clip of Conor McGregor sparring Paulie Malignaggi has been released. The clip is from their 2nd sparring session where they went 12 rounds. Its the same sparring session where the pic of Paulie on the ground was posted from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHVsZGyZOwCan't say for certain whether the knockdown is legit. Conor lands a monster left hand which seems to rock Malignaggi before he falls.
well if we will look back with Conor's fight we can say that its possible that he can manage to knock his sparring partner out and if chances will allow him
and Mayweather will be reckless i think one big solid punch from Conor will decide this match just in case but knowing how Mayweather style it will be
very difficult.
But have on mind Malignaggi hasn't done anything in a long time, he came out straight from the plane without previous warmup and that was the first session. He said the last 5 rounds he dominated Conor. And he said the second session was much better.
I would like to see the entire footage. Sure he did catch him good on there, but that's just one round.
If you show someone the round 2 of Mosley vs Mayweather without showing the rest of the fight, you would think Mosley was superior, but Mayweather schooled him for the rest of the fight.
Also it's just sparring, you can be the champion of your gym but thats very different to being the champion under the lights.
Plus Connor looks awkward in the video. His fighting stance looks very amatuerish. How can he then win over Floyd's superior boxing skills and defense? The more I see the video, the more I'm leaning towards Mayweather. He is just touching Malignaggi in the video and his weapon is his left hand only. Of course Floyd doesn't like southpaw but he can sure adjust as the round goes by.
Malignaggi is also smaller, and he's far from Mayweather's skill. He was out of shape and warming up. And still, Malignaggi went 12 rounds, and I believe Malignaggi when he claims he dominated the last rounds.
Maybe they should make another fight and give Malignaggi a big pay day. He's a cool guy, he's got good fight IQ and he overcame his physical limitations to become a 2 time world champion.
Anyway in the recent footage, Floyd is looking sharp, and he looks younger than Conor at age 40. Conor conditioning doesn't look as good. But I think he will not have any problem going 12 rounds. You can't count Conor out, if he gets that lucky punch it could be dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAQNUvLzJ5cConor has some awkward angles but we will see how that works under the lights.
Floyd talking shit while working out for 2 hours. Good conditioning, snappy punches, awesome reflexes in the 2 end bag... he's looking sharp.
I am certainly betting my money after seeing the work out in favor of McGregor.
