{"id":247887,"date":"2017-08-28T06:34:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=247887"},"modified":"2017-08-28T06:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:34:54","slug":"paulie-malignaggi-explains-mayweather-defeated-tactically-brilliant-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/paulie-malignaggi\/paulie-malignaggi-explains-mayweather-defeated-tactically-brilliant-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulie Malignaggi explains how Mayweather defeated “tactically brilliant” Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor McGregor<\/a> did better against Floyd Mayweather than any of his haters expected. That includes his sparring partner turned nemesis Paulie Malignaggi, who broke the fight down in a post-fight discussion with MMAFighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Malignaggi, McGregor was quite impressive in the first few rounds, but the ceaseless pressure applied by Mayweather \u2013part of the undefeated great’s “mental pressure” \u2013 ultimately proved to be too much.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think [McGregor] started the fight very well, actually,\u201d Malignaggi said. \u201cIt was tactical brilliance, almost. It was awkward, but it was effective in the early stages. Now having said that, the mental pressure Floyd was applying, Conor doesn\u2019t have much experience in the ring so it\u2019s going to fatigue him a little bit faster because he sees this guy constantly walking him down.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEven if Conor was being effective, the constant walking him down is going to cause fatigue physically, but also mentally. \u2018I can\u2019t get this guy out of my face.\u2019 Conor\u2019s used to hurting guys, he\u2019s not hurting (Mayweather). And it got to the point where he was able to fire back less and less.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Malignaggi also discussed the fight’s eventual stoppage, which McGregor briefly criticized post-fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs far as the stoppage is concerned, we saw Conor say, \u2018I would have liked to end up on my back, I didn\u2019t even go down.\u2019 Here\u2019s the problem with that: You have to punch back,\u201d Malignaggi explained. \u201cHe didn\u2019t punch back for about over a minute in that final sequence. If you want to really fight, you\u2019ve got to show the referee you want to fight. You can\u2019t just say afterwards you wanted to fight. If you don\u2019t throw a bunch back for a minute while you\u2019re being assaulted, you gotta get stopped. You can\u2019t put the referee in that kind of position.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo as much as he wants to say he wanted to continue fighting, he had a chance to show that, but of course, it\u2019s okay, the exhaustion, we understand that. Some body shots from Floyd Mayweather, again, the mental pressure I thought was effective and eventually it wore him down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What do you think of these comments from Floyd Mayweather?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 8\/27\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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