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Agreed. This recent fallacy of "Conor is a weak puncher" is laughable. When you watch all his fights, he has a number of KO's going back to his early days. Granted, they may have not been "Bisping'd", but there are many factors in a fighter going out cold.
Even take Tyson, very rarely were his opponents out cold and stretched like Aldo.
Even Paulie Sir Salty admitted Conor had 7.5 for boxing. No question that when Conor wants to unload he is one of the P4P more hard hitters in MMA, but his precision and boxing skills are what is more impressive.
The thing I find most laughable about this is that people are saying because he did not knock out Floyd Mayweather that it is evidence that he doesn't not have power. I don't think anything could be more retarded and guess that means Canelo sure is a feather fisted fighter, right?
Canelo never landed flush on Mayweather's chin. If he'd hit Floyd with that counter uppercut, Mayweather would have been on his ass.
RE the rest of your post. The point isn't that McGregor is "feather-fisted." Obviously, he can throw hard shots for a guy his size. The issue is that there is a gap between what's considered extremely powerful striking in MMA and what's considered powerful in boxing. There's also a huge gap in defensive capabilities of fighters and punch resistance.
Malignaggi said that McGregor has decent power, but that it's not one shot KO type power for pro boxing.
People spent months claiming that McGregor's power was a level above the elite level punchers in boxing (Mosley and Maidana) who landed flush on Mayweather and rocked him. Conar marks were legitimately talking about Floyd getting KO'd by one shot if McGregor landed cleanly when he was fresh.
Well, sorry. He just doesn't have the same kind of power and accuracy that those guys do. Not only that, but it's a shit comparison to begin with. Mosley and Maidana are both at least 10 lbs lighter in the ring than Conor. The proper comparison is to heavy hitters his size (i.e. Canelo, Golovkin, Charlo, Lemieux). His power isn't even in the same ballpark. It's just a laughable comparison.
Dude is a GOAT-level MMA striker, and nobody can take that away from him. However, the comparisons between his striking abilities and those of actual world class pro boxers need to end.