pabloarc wrote:
saw an interesting post earlier today.
It mentioned the reason for Mayweather's superior endurance vs McGregor (who started fading in the 4th-5th round of the fight), was because of Floyd's dedication to running.
The article mentioned that Floyd runs 10 miles every day, and that Conor doesn't run at all according to them. And that was the reason of the difference in endurance between the two fighters.
Seems a strange logic to me, I don't know anything about boxing, but I would have thought that if someone want to have more endurance in boxing, then they should train boxing more, not run more, lol.
The running endurance superiority is a load of bull. Seriously.
I did jujitsu for awhile and had a few serious runner friends (sub-3 or near 3hr marathoners) in the class as beginners and their sport-specific endurance in jujitsu was far worse than even an intermediate-level jujitsu practitioners, let alone the good ones. Just because you can run for a long time really fast or even have good VO2 max, doesn't mean you're conserving energy and moving energy-efficiently in offense/defense of combat.
Mayweather's superior endurance vs McGregor MAY have been partly superior physical endurance, but the REAL reason is simply that he's a far, far superior technical boxer than McGregor. Mayweather had the chops to easily ride out and test Mcgregor's boxing ability in the early rounds, while keeping in mind that he was giving the fans/critics enough ringtime and enough tape reel to see that his win wasn't just going to be a 'lucky punch'. And then when it came time to deliver, he started methodically grinding down McGregor to the point of submission.
But make no mistake - this was not some head-to-head endurance boxing fest where Mayweather simply outlasted McGregor - it was anything BUT that. Mayweather was never in danger, and was putting on the required show, until it was time to do business. And then it was over quick. He could have definitely have finished McGregor many, many rounds earlier, but then he'd have the annoying hassles of people bemoaning not getting their pay per views' money worth.
All in all a great marketing stunt. But let's not just credit the marketers for the hype job - like or not, Mayweather for all his personal troubles, is a legitimately historically great boxer, and the question of how well a non-boxer yet top MMA specialist would last against a top boxer in a boxing ring, is a question that clearly tons of people were willing to pay money for even if it were a one-sided blowout.
