Former McGregor sparring partner has theory on why Money wins

Former IBO world welterweight boxing champion and former Conor McGregor sparring partner recently shared his opinion on MayMac with Elie Seckbach for Fight Hub TV. Like virtually all experts from the boxing world, he believes Mayweather will win, but he has a unique theory as to why.

“His best punch is that counter left hand, he’s very good at it, said Van Heerden, as transcribed by Wil Esco for Bad Left Hook. I’m gonna give that to him, you know. Take nothing away from him, his counter left hand is pretty good and I can see why with [4oz gloves] he’s dropping these guys in MMA but then again, we’ve seen over and over and over it doesn’t take much for these MMA fighters, once they get tagged on the jaw, to go down.

“In a boxer’s world we are so trained everyday, everyday when we spar we get tagged on the jaw. So we’re used to that where I feel they are so focused on the ground work, on the kicking, on the grappling, on the wrestling, a little bit on the boxing — they don’t perfect one thing. It’s hard to perfect one thing and when they do get hit hard on the jaw it’s like a surprise to them, it’s like, ‘Whoa!’ and they go down so easy. It’s funny.

I feel the massive difference between MMA fighters when it comes to boxing, and boxers when it comes to boxing, is that we are trained to fight in combinations. We are trained to throw four, five, six, seven punches in a combination where MMA fighters are not trained to throw combinations. You go look at their fights they throw one-twos, they walk down like this, or it’s a one-two, or a one — they don’t fight in combinations.

And that’s what separates them from boxers in the sense of skill is — let’s say Conor McGregor vs. Floyd. Floyd knows how to throw six, seven, eight punches in a combination, and land them, where Conor maybe knows how to throw one or two. That’s it.”

McGregor boxes Mayweather on Saturday night, but you knew that already.