{"id":337538,"date":"2020-01-07T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=337538"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:59:33","slug":"jorge-masvidal-makes-prediction-for-mcgregor-vs-cerrone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jorge-masvidal-makes-prediction-for-mcgregor-vs-cerrone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal makes prediction for McGregor vs. Cerrone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Masvidal has recently been linked to a blockbuster battle with Conor McGregor. Before this fight can happen, however, McGregor will need to get past former Masvidal victim Donald &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; Cerrone, who he&#8217;ll meet in the main event of UFC 246 on January 18.<\/p>\n<p>So, does Masvidal believe McGregor can get the job done and open the door to their potential superfight? Well, that depends.<\/p>\n<p>He says he favors McGregor early, but believes things could start going Cerrone&#8217;s way the longer the fight goes \u2014 particularly if the American leans on his grappling skill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can go many ways,\u201d Masvidal told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN<\/a> on Monday (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/01\/jorge-masvidal-conor-mcgregor-donald-cerrone-playing-out-several-ways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cConor is great off the block. He\u2019s phenomenal off the start. Cowboy is a slow starter. Conor has tremendous speed and timing in the beginning, good power, so I think he can catch him early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Cowboy comes out to grapple like he has in the past with decent strikers and even good grapplers like Rick Story, who he was able to take down and create a lot of offense like that \u2026 if that Cowboy comes out, he can mix things up real nice. And then he can start to flow and get into his game of high kicks and punching and being tricky, like a dual threat to Conor.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Masvidal acknowledges that Cerrone has some viable routes to victory, he seems to be leaning toward an early McGregor win\u2014particularly if Cerrone elects to strike with the Irishman, as he&#8217;s suggested he will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf (Cerrone) just comes out to fight it out, I see Conor winning within the first two rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Conor McGregor will defeat Donald Cerrone at UFC 246? If he does, do you think he&#8217;ll fight Jorge Masvidal next?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 1\/7\/2020.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Masvidal has recently been linked to a blockbuster battle with Conor McGregor. Before this fight can happen, however, McGregor will need to get past former Masvidal victim Donald &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; Cerrone, who he&#8217;ll meet in the main event of UFC 246 on January 18. So, does Masvidal believe McGregor can get the job done and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":325964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10089,10515,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jorge Masvidal makes prediction for McGregor vs. Cerrone | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jorge Masvidal has recently been linked to a blockbuster scrap with Conor McGregor. 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