Boxing legend Antonio Tarver does not believe UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor will do well in the sport of boxing.
On Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, Tarver told Ariel Helwani that McGregor can’t beat fellow UFC lightweight Nate Diaz in boxing, so there is no chance he could beat fellow boxing legend Floyd “Money” Mayweather.
“Conor McGregor can’t beat the top-20 in the division, how the f*ck is he going to beat Floyd Mayweather? Not a f*cking chance in hell (of even a puncher’s chance), because he’s not punching with those four-ounce gloves on. He’s punching with 10-ounce gloves on. Big difference.
“It’s a money fight. I don’t know if it’s a mockery, but it’s a money fight. That’s what it’s all about. Conor McGregor can’t beat Nate Diaz in a boxing match. In a boxing match, [Diaz] will beat his ass, and there’s a whole lot of other fighters out there who will beat his ass in a boxing match.”
Tarver, a multiple time light heavyweight champion in the sport of boxing, does not see a potential boxing match with Mayweather ending well for McGregor.
“I think Floyd can knock him out because Floyd is a boxer.” [McGregor] is not going to know what to do. He hasn’t had the repetitions. He hasn’t had the experiences. He don’t know what it’s going to take. Sh*t, he gets tired in a five-round fight, even though they’re going five rounds and they’re wrestling. What the hell you think is going to happen in round six, seven, if he gets that far? When he’s mentally fatigued and tired? Because I’ve seen him in the Octagon getting mentally fatigued and tired. So he just needs to be taught.”
