Mayweather vs Pacquiao live: Mayweather can knock out Pacquiao, says UFC star McGregor

The Irish UFC star feels Mayweather are going to be an excessive amount of for Pacquiao after they fight on May 2nd, 2015.


Conor McGregor, seen throughout a 2013 fight with liquid ecstasy Holloway, thinks Mayweather has the sting on May 

MANILA, Philippines - final Fighting Championship (UFC) hotshot Conor McGregor is one in all many of us outside of the boxing world with associate degree opinion to share on the long-awaited encounter between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. on might a pair of (May three in PH).

The 26-year-old Irishman created the daring prediction that Mayweather might knock out Pacquiao in their heavily-hyped confrontation, that takes place at the sixteen, 800-seater MGM Grand Garden Arena in city, Nevada.

“Floyd Mayweather would knock out Manny Pacquiao,” McGregor told Rapper in associate degree interview.

Boxing’s powerful pound-for-pound king last scored a knockout once he defeated Victor Ortiz in Sept 2011.

After associate degree intentional head butt by Ortiz within the fourth spherical, Mayweather took advantage of his opponent not having his hands up by connecting a left hook and followed up with a flush hand to the face.

On the opposite hand, Pacquiao has not stopped associate degree in-ring counterpart since he routed Miguel Cotto via twelfth-round TKO in November 2009.

The Filipino southpaw was seen gunning for a knockout four months ago, dropping antecedently unconquered battler Chris Algieri six fold before cruising to a lopsided call success.
McGregor believes that his forthcoming bout against featherweight titleholder Jose Aldo at UFC 189 on July eleven (July twelve in PH) would vie with the Pacquiao-Mayweather duel in terms of pay-per-view numbers.
“This is real fighting. This is often pure. At constant time, there’s plenty of history between Manny and Floyd, therefore I’m undoubtedly interested into that fight. However [my fight with Aldo] is 2 men at their prime,” he stressed.

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For his fearless forecast on the marquee match-up versus Aldo, McGregor is assured that he might score associate degree upset and win by either knockout or submission.

“I would knock Jose out,” he vowed. “If the submission presents itself, I might strangle him and break his limb. However it's the chin that I’m looking.”