Conor McGregor’s recent defeat under Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been a hard loss for some mixed martial arts fans. Now, ESPN’s Skip Bayless has come forward with his thoughts on McGregor’s TKO loss to the undefeated boxing legend.
In a recent video post, as transcribed by MMA Mania, Skip Bayless stated “The whole thing flipped and turned in round number nine…Floyd Mayweather was in trouble in this fight. But, the turning point to me, and I would like to see the video of this came in round nine,” said skip via a Facebook video post.
“It was ironically the round Shannon Sharpe predicted a knockout for Floyd and the round I predicted a knockout for Conor. Right away, Conor was coming off his best round, a bounce back round in round eight, in my card I had him ahead.”
“Then in nine, he comes out aggressive and he stunned Floyd. He hit him with a hard left, rocked him and buckled him and Floyd’s in trouble in the corner and when Conor goes in for the ‘kill,’ it happened so fast I need to see a replay, but he had him and Robert Byrd pulls him away.”
“In that moment, I thought that’s it. Again, I’m just going off my instinct, my gut and Conor had him on the ropes. He was then backed off to the middle of the ring and he had spent himself on that salvo. Eight took a lot out of McGregor.”
