00:00uh mcgregor and holloway too how do you see this thing uh playing out tonight
00:06well when i saw the fight was booked i i was kind of shocked because i said all along michael
00:13chandler was the guy that connor should have fought because that was the guy that he's kind
00:18of on the downswing he's hittable connor would have had a really good chance to win that fight
00:22against michael chandler and i think he would have you know to come in here and face max holloway a
00:27guy who he has faced in the past he has beat him in the past but max was very early
00:31in his ufc career
00:32max has come a long way since then he's become a champion one of the greatest champions at 145
00:38uh knocked out the champion at 155 justin gaethje um in dramatic fashion i mean one of the best
00:45performances you've ever seen and that was a little over a year year and a half ago so max
00:50holloway is a really really tough out and looking at it i mean connor coming back from the injury he's
00:56been off for five years i have to lean towards max but when they did the ceremonial weigh-ins max
01:03was
01:03coming in when he was walking in it looked like he had a limp so that kind of gives me
01:08a little pause
01:08i don't know if he's playing it up he did jog once he got up on the stage he did
01:12jog i don't know if
01:13he was you know sometimes when you got a you got a sore leg or a hurt leg it's easier
01:17to jog than it
01:18is to actually walk so i don't know that's interesting connor looks really good i think connor is live
01:24early because max is a guy that's there to be hit we've seen him recently uh get knocked out
01:29by taporia which is something that we've never really seen before so you know there might be
01:35some cracks in the armor of max holloway he's been through a lot of wars i think connor has a
01:39really
01:40good shot early in this fight but once it gets into the third round fourth round i kind of just
01:46think
01:46max is gonna he's gonna be the guy with the better cardio he's gonna have the better volume
01:51and when it's all said and done i think the safest way for for me to bet this is max
01:55holloway over two
01:56and a half rounds but i am a little concerned now that i i saw the limp i don't know
02:01i don't know what
02:02to make of that would you agree you mentioned that he should have fought michael chandler too
02:07and when you watched him against diaz one of the things that diaz did was get him into the latter
02:12rounds and the fight that he choked him out in so again getting him on the mat how holloway wants
02:19to get him on the mat because if you don't want to sit there and strike with a guy like
02:24a conor
02:25mcgregor right do you want to get him on the mat try to wear him out test and see what
02:29that endurance
02:30is because as you said this guy hasn't fought in six years i mean to me i'd want to get
02:35him on the
02:36mat and try to get let's see what kind of conditioning he's in well that that is a decent strategy
02:42but
02:43that's not really the way max fights the the way max is going to wear him down is with the
02:49pressure
02:49on the feet he's got very good striking he's he's relentless on the feet this is a guy that's landed
02:55over 500 strikes in a fight uh he was beating up calvin cater and uh you know there was talk
03:01about
03:01who's the best boxer in mma and while he was throwing combinations he was looking over to to dc
03:06at the announcer's table saying i'm the best i'm the best boxer in the ufc while he's landing
03:12combinations without looking so max the pressure of max is what's going to be is what's going to wear
03:18connor down the first time they fought connor actually tore his acl early in that fight and
03:24connor was the one that took him down and we've seen guys like khabib you know be able to wrestle
03:30connor but connor's not a great grappler by any stretch that is the weakness in his game
03:36but he does have a very underrated ground game he does have really good takedown defense
03:40when he's not fighting a really elite you know grappler so max his style has never really been
03:47grappling the way for him to win this fight is to just put the pressure on connor he at max
03:52is tough
03:53he can take big shots just he's got to avoid you know the big ko shot but it's pressure on
03:58the feet
03:58that's really gonna that's gonna do it for max so tom you think early if if mcgregor wins
04:05this fight it's something early you're saying max holloway wants to get this into the latter rounds
04:11right yeah yeah if connor wins this fight it's it's either a first or a second round knockout
04:18um outside of that i mean yes connor has gone five rounds he did go five with with nate in
04:23the second
04:23fight it was a very close fight nate was landing a lot late in that round in those rounds connor
04:29hurt
04:29him bad early in that fight connor did end up edging out the fifth round and that's what got
04:36him the win in that fight but nate diaz and max holloway are not the same if con if connor
04:43has to
04:43fight a war where where max is throwing three four hundred strikes it's just not it's just not a good
04:49good look for connor and i just think max has a big advantage as they get into like late third
04:55fourth
04:55fifth rounds that's definitely the better path for max and that's kind of the way max has won most
05:00of his fights tom do you agree that really it's going to dictate how he fights connor mcgregor
05:06tonight on what the future is going to be about 20 seconds i mean is there more fights after this
05:12if
05:13he puts a good performance on win or lose if he wins for sure um if he loses we'll probably
05:20see
05:20another dragged out you know he'll probably take some more time off i know he wants to get back in
05:24there his contract's running up so he definitely wants to to fight for sure
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