For all the talk that has built up around the putative showdown between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor being about the best pound‑for‑pound boxer of the past quarter of a century taking on the brightest star in the history of mixed martial arts, it is not. It has all the hallmarks of a mismatch. This one, like nearly all the others, is about the money.
Unless there is an accident or a miracle, Mayweather will bamboozle the Irish cage fighter to the point of embarrassment with skills that carried him unbeaten through 49 professional boxing matches and garnered him titles at five weights in 26 world championship contests. Although McGregor, 28, is a phenomenon in his own discipline, he has not fought competitively with proper boxing gloves since he was a 15‑year‑old novice in south Dublin. As his trainer at the Crumlin amateur club, Phil Sutcliffe, told Boxing News last year: “He won a few novice titles and boxed on plenty of shows [over three years] to learn his trade but, before he became a junior, he found another love [kick‑boxing and mixed martial arts] and packed it in.”
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