The interest has overwhelmed the reality of this fight between pedigreed pugilist and the tough guy mixed martial arts champion. The MMA fighter punches, kicks, wrestles, grapples and when that doesn’t work, he grapples, wrestles, kicks and punches and chokes. McGregor is a tough guy and a mean guy and MMA champion of more than consequence. The boxing realists, not draped in flags, not in beards and McGregor haircuts, see the fight to the way Mayweather’s father analyzes it. They say he will walk through Mayweather’s punches the way a Joe Frazier or Evander Holyfield has walked through punches on their way to mauling fighters.

Source: National Post August 26, 2017 03:00 UTC