McGregor: Floyd can f@$%ing shut up about my weight
Conor McGregor: “Tell him to shut his f@$%ing mouth. He knows nothing, the fool of a thing. Let him keeping praying … All he’s doing is praying to the new god of boxing.”
For the past several days Floyd Mayweather has alternated yarns about how competitive McGregor will be, with fanciful yarns about McGregor struggling to make weight, his use of seven IV bags, and the chance he will miss the 154 cutoff. McGregor fought for most of his career at 145 and more recently at 155, and has never missed weight.
“Tell him to shut his f***ing mouth,” said McGregor, as transcribed by Martin Domin for the UK’s The Mirror. “He knows nothing, the fool of a thing. Let him keeping praying, praying for weight, praying for fatigue, praying for me to take a backwards step. All he’s doing is praying to the new god of boxing.
“My weight is phenomenal, when have I ever missed weight? Let him think what he wants.
“I’ll be a lot heavier than he is [on fight night] and make no mistake, he’ll feel every pound. … I believe I’ll knock him out early, in one or two rounds. But I’m starting to think I’ll toy with him when he goes down.
“In martial arts I can step past the legs and pound the head and stiffen the body. Boxing is different where the referee can stop me following up so there will be 8-10 seconds when he can recover.
“If he does I may decide to toy with him but I have the ability to put him away inside two rounds.”
McGregor has worked for years now with highly-respected nutritionist George Lockhart, who was with McGregor in Ireland and Vegas throughout his MayMac camp.
Right now he’s getting grains in every meal. Basically lots of spinach, a lot of higher fat foods and when you’re in an anaerobic state, your body burns more fat,” said Lockhart to Damon Martin for MMA Weekly. “When he’s boxing, he’s going to be in and out of that zone quite a bit. So his body is going to be burning a lot of carbohydrates but we need to make sure that the fat’s adapted.
So with this camp it’s a lot more avocados, more red meat, especially on off days.
When somebody’s wrestling, you’re obviously going to be very highly anaerobic and you’re going to be burning a lot of carbs. In that sense, weight is such a big issue, it’s a huge advantage when I’m wrestling somebody or on top of somebody. Just by sheer physics if I have more weight behind me, I can push somebody over more efficiently. Where as with boxing, you have the clinch but it’s only for a few seconds so weight isn’t as much of a matter so you want to keep the weight lower for boxing. You don’t have a drastic cut. You want to make sure you have speed because speed is key in boxing.”
Now we’ve got a lot more higher fats but when we were getting ready for the Alvarez fight, it was a lot more carbohydrates. Post workout he was getting a lot more carbs as well. We’d be giving from 100 to 150 grams of carboyhydrates post workout where as now, I’ll actually add a little bit of fat to the drink and post workout it was basically BCAA’s [branched chain amino acids] and carbohydrates and caffeine and now he’s getting a lot more protein post workout. It helps out so his weight goes down but he’s not as hungry and it helps him recover from the workout.
It’s always fun working with Conor.”
