{"id":245079,"date":"2017-07-23T16:58:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T23:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=245079"},"modified":"2017-07-23T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T23:58:45","slug":"jorge-masvidal-explains-mcgregor-barely-chance-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jorge-masvidal\/jorge-masvidal-explains-mcgregor-barely-chance-mayweather\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal explains why McGregor has &#8220;barely any chance&#8221; against Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 26, UFC lightweight <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a> will step <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor-vs-floyd-mayweather\/\">into the boxing ring<\/a> with undefeated great Floyd Mayweather Jr. While McGregor is tremendously talented as a mixed martial artist, he&#8217;s being given little chance against Mayweather in the boxing ring. On the latest episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-42-jorge-gamebred-masvidal\/\">BJ Penn Radio<\/a>, top UFC welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal weighed in on this fight, and explained why he shares the widespread belief that McGregor will most likely lose decisively.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;In a fight with two guys with their hands up with bad intentions, there&#8217;s always a chance \u2013 always in a fight,&#8221; Masvidal explained. &#8220;You can get beat up for 14 minutes, and at 14:55, you land that one blow that changes the whole fight. Anything can happen to anybody. But those chances are so slim against Mayweather&#8230; The only way I can see Mayweather losing is if Mayweather just doesn&#8217;t take him seriously at all. If he does like an Anderson Silva, you know \u2013 hands straight up and he actually lets him hit him in the chin. But I don&#8217;t see Mayweather losing this.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Masvidal then shared some of his own experience to drive his point home.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I grew up boxing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My first base was boxing, and I grew up lucky. The gyms that I was at, I got to see a lot of world class boxing at an early, early age. It was just pure luck that the gyms near my house happened to have amazing, amazing talent, whether it was homegrown or Cuban nationals who had won the Olympics, that had won world championships, that had 250 amateur fights and 17 losses. So I got to work with a lot of good guys, and I got to see a lot of good guys work, and I can tell you this. I have never seen anybody in MMA \u2013 and this is not to diss my brothers and sisters, because it&#8217;s a different spot \u2013 I&#8217;ve never seen guys that you see in the top-10 of MMA, or the top-5 even, and they&#8217;re good strikers, when they do straight boxing with a solid boxer, not even a world-class amateur, just a solid veteran, a lot of times they get mopped up.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In the first few minutes, the MMA guys sometimes throw off the boxers because it&#8217;s a different beat, different stance, and they throw their punches a little different, some of them, compared to straight boxing. So you sometimes see the boxer get clipped up a little bit because he&#8217;s not use to that rhythm and the angles the punches come from, but once it all sets in and they get the timing, it&#8217;s a different ballgame. 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