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This Saturday, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor <\/a>will step into the boxing ring to battle undefeated boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr.<\/a> The fight is tracking to be one of the biggest in combat sports history, and one that could smash all previous pay-per-view records.\u00a0Former Strikeforce champ and current Bellator star Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal, however, will not be buying.<\/p>\n

The light heavyweight and occasional heavyweight explained why on a recent episode of MMAJunkie Radio.<\/a>\u00a0In his opinion, it’s too much of a mismatch in Mayweather’s favor to even warrant consideration. He’ll simply watch the highlights later.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe, I\u2019ll wait to watch it on Facebook,\u201d King Mo said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to pay $100 to watch a guy make his pro debut versus a guy that\u2019s 49-0, looking for his 50th win \u2013 a five-time world champion, a guy that\u2019s a bronze medalist in the Olympics that should have won gold, a guy that\u2019s been boxing his whole life, comes from a family of boxers. I\u2019m not going to watch that mismatch.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Floyd<\/p>\n

King Mo has trained at Mayweather Boxing Club in the past, but went on to assure that his confidence in a Mayweather win is not due to any kind of loyalty or bias.<\/p>\n

\u201c[McGregor] boxed for the early part of his life, and then he went to MMA,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe moment you leave what you\u2019re doing and go into a different sport, your whole game, your level changes on that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like wrestling. I can\u2019t go back and wrestle these guys at the U.S. Open. I\u2019d get smashed because I have not wrestled at that level [in so long].\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Bellator star then went all-in on his prediction:<\/p>\n

\u201c[Mayweather] is going to go out there, walk Conor down behind his high guard, and just beat him up. It\u2019s a mismatch, just like when James Toney fought Randy Couture<\/a>: mismatch. It is what it is.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Will you be buying the Mayweather vs. McGregor pay-per-view, or are you with King Mo on this one?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 8\/21\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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