Full comprehensive breakdown of Conor sparring IBF boxing champ! Find out if Conor's boxing holds up

A lot of MMA fans dont know boxing. This ignorance has lead to posts like:

"Conor has bad boxing, bad defense, stuck in the mud" - what ever they can come up with.

Hopefully this thread educates the common MMA fan and we can get to the bottom of the truth!

I have decided to do a complete and thorough breakdown of every exchange during this fun sparring session, so MMA fans can go back, rewind, and better understand what was going on. Also to satisfy those who want that deeper understanding of what they were watching. The sparring was in good fun, this breakdown is in good fun:)

Its a very long read because im breakding down every moment. Trust me. Im covering it all

Just want to pre-face with this. Very rarely will we ever get to see a champion level MMA striker sparring with a championship level boxer on video. Very..very cool to see. I mean theres video of Anderson Silva sparring at Wild card and geting schooled by some no name amature. It really put to light how insanely over-rated Anderson was as an "MMA boxer" by fanboys, but sadly it left a stigma that MMA fighters cant box. Its awesome to see Conor come in with legit boxing skill and actually prove that wrong. Its great to see Conor undo the damage Anderson did. Boxing fans respect MMA because they respect Conor's skills. Up until this point we had never seen an MMA striker actually win the boxing sparring against a championship level boxer. Yeah I know, its just sparring, but still lol. Pretty special to see from Conor. Lots of fun to discuss. Its a fun watch. As an MMA fan you should get behind Conor representing MMA this well. Great to be an MMA fan/Conor fan. Enough of that. Now lets gets to it:)



- Conor opens up with a body jab

- Pay attention to 0:09. As Conor is cutting off the ring, he has an angle on Chris, Chris throws a right hook, Conor slips to his outside shoulder and counters with a left.

Very fluid the way Conor just slips (or leans) and drops the left - like its all one motion. Conor is a very smooth slick counter puncher - even by boxing standards, as Conor's sparring partner revealed in interviews afterwards

- At 0:16 Conor feints, feints, then uses his lead hand as a blinder to sneak a left to the body. Very slick boxing skill from Conor.

That is similar to what Floyd actually does. Floyd will throw a feeler right hand, and keep it out there to blind his opponent for a left hook to the side of the body.

Conor uses his lead hand as a blinder to sneak his lefts to the body.

Conor follows that up with a short left hook up top. Chris counters with a soft right. Conor rolls back with it.

- Starting from 0:20 the pace rapidly picks up. Both lossening up and getting into it.

-As Chris shifts weight to throw a body shot, Conor sees it and changes levels with him simultaneously throwing a body jab. Conor smoothers Chris' body shot and takes it on his inside shoulder

When an opponent changes levels, you change levels with them. For Conor to be showing this kind of subtle knowledge against an opponent of that level, it really demonstartes just how much Conor has studied different positions - their solutions, and truly understands the finer details of the sweet science.

- Instantly after, Conor probes with his lead hand. Chris counters with a right

- Conor picks up on this, and now knows Chris likes to counter with his lead and prefers his right hand to his left. So what happens next? Conor is ready with that brilliant timing. Chris throws his right again - a jab - and Conor slips to the inside of it and counters with a right hook to the body

Absolutely beautiful legit boxing skill/defense/countering being demonstarted by Conor so far.

Conor is winning the boxing exchanges in pure boxing skill against a former champion boxer. A far cry from the videos of Anderson getting embaressed by some no name amature at Wild Card

- 0:25 Conor bobs to his left side right into a right hook to the body. Chris follows up with a right. Because Conor is holding the phone with his left hand Conor picks off the right off his glove. Beautiful defensive responsibility by Conor.

(Conor actually does keep his hands up in positions that require it. WHEN Conor has his hands down - its when he knows he can - and can come back with a counter instantly)

- After the beautiful slip and right hook counter to the body from Conor, Conor starts circling to his right to get Chris to follow into a lead. At 0:27 Conor leads with a jab left straight combo. Chris did good of not following and pulling away from the left. Left misses

- Starting at 0:29 after Conor comes up short with the left lead, Conor steps right into orthodox.

Assumes an MMA stance lol.

Chris is completely bewildered at this point. Both are essentially at a stand off. Conor likely did this to draw out a rush, plant feet and counter. Conor is waiting like a boxing cobra for a rush, to slip and drop his counter.

- Conor doesnt get the response he wants. 0:36 Conor steps back into southpaw. This gives Chris oppurtunity to lead. Chris opens up with a body jab. Good safe low risk move.

Chris follows up the body jab with jabs up top. Conor is now utilising a philly shell defense. Conor hiding behind his lead shoulder and pulling away from all the jabs and pivoting out. Left follow up to the body from Chris almost glancing off.

- 0:40 Jab from Conor. Jab from Chris. They trade jabs

- Conor bounching on his feet. 0:43 Conor steps to his left, hoping to walk Chris into a lead. Conor has the left counter ready. 0:45 throws it but half cocks it after realising Chris didnt step in. Chris pulls away. Nothing comes of the exchange

- 0:52 Conor leads with a body jab. Leans away behind his lead shoulder picking off the counter jab up top attempt from Chris. Good stuff by Conor

- 0:53 Conor now probing his lead hand, which has many uses. You probe as a range finder, feeler, distance control, to time and snuff out etc.

- 0:54 Chris countering Conor's probing with lead hand by getting low and using head movement. This is what you do against someone probing lead hand out there.

- 0:56 Conor shoots a lead left straight. Again Conor half cocks it and stops when he sees that Chris did not step in.

Chris has good judge of range. Hes applying pressure but staying back just enough to not be in range or will pull back instantly. Chris is no chump.

0:57 Heres a great exchange. I reccomend everyone go over it in slow motion. Very hard to catch in normal speed. Chris leads with a jab. Hard to see if it lands clean, or to the side, or glances. But Conor actually changed head slots while shooting a simultaneous counter jab. If you pause just before 0:58 or at 0:57, you can see Conor's head now in the inside of Chris' jab. Conor counters over it with a left straight.

Brilliant skill by Conor. The level of legit boxing skill/defense/countering Conor has is absurd.

Again, Conor is displaying this against a former championship level boxer. If this doesnt prove how under rated Conor is in pure skill...well then I dont know what will..

So to go over it, Chris throws a jab, Conor shoots a simultaneous counter jab while changing head slots to the inside of Chris' jab, countering over it with a left. Just brilliant by Conor. If you pause at the right time you can see it landed clean.

Chris had already started pulling back after the left. Conor transitions to an uprising jab as he hops in after Chris. Conor's follow up, hop in, uprising jab lands too, BUT I still didnt like Conor chasing like that and his feet leaving the ground. The one mistake Conor has made so far

Conor throws another jab coming forward. If anything it keeps Chris pre-occupied while Conor covers distance or allows him to re-set when he wants to etc

- 1:02 As Chris jabs to Conor's chest, Conor attempts uppercut counter inside of it while out of philly shell stance. Conor now tucked behind his lead shoulder attempting to counter

Conor's uppercut counter just came up short.

-Chris then follows up with a right hook. This is the first punch Chris lands on Conor thats noticably clean (if youve been keeping track Conor has been out landing Chris in clean shots)

- As Chris lands the right hook Conor kind of moves with it and pivots out

- 1:04 Conor now working behind philly shell. As Chris steps around to throw a right hook, Conor pivots out to his right while picking off Chris' right hook from the philly shell. Again, awesome boxing skill by Conor

- 1:07 Conor goes back to using lead hand as a blinder to sneak in the body shot. Conor's tricks and set ups are a treat to watch

- 1:09 both hand fighting now. Chris shoots jab. Conor leans back from it

- 1:14 Conor shoots lead straight, Chris ducks it and shifts to his right as he counters with a right hook to the body, as Chris comes up from the body shot Conor cracks him with a right hook lol. Good exchange. Conor is in there against a high level boxer who KNOWS what hes doing and Conor is still winning out and showcasing legit boxing skill

- 1:16 even though nothing happens, its important to see. Chris changes levels and Conor changes levels with him + fakes an uppercut. Negating any set up or misdirections + getting Chris back upright. Conor has the IQ of a veteran high IQ boxer. Pretty surreal to see for an MMA striker

-1:17 this one was a real high light. Its like a defensive combo from Conor. Conor slips a jab to the outside, slips a jab to the inside, and then pivots out - making Chris miss due to the angle, as Chris can only touch Conor light to the body at the end of it all. Absolute beautiful slick defensive skill by Conor. Such beautiful head and feet movement in unison to make miss. Keep in mind this aint no chump who Conor is sparring.

So far Conor has shown great skill, defense, and countering. Conor is leagues better then Anderson Silva could ever have dreamed of being. Conor is far slicker, far more fundamentally sound, far more diverse, far more complete of a boxer, far superior IQ, far superior set ups and tricks, and just has a far far deeper understanding of boxing then Anderson ever had

- 1:24 This is small but nice. Conor takes a lateral side step to his right cutting off Chris' lateral movement to that direction.

Unreal how much of a complete boxer Conor is. We have seen Conor countering, using set ups, being defensive, being able to lead, cutting off the ring etc. Theres no facet of his boxing that hes truly weak in

- 1:30 Conor feints jab twice to set up a lead left. Chris did good of changing levels once Conor feinted, and likely slips the left from Conor. He certainly pulls back from it

1:34 Chris bends and goes for body jab, Conor attempts left straight counter up top. It misses to the outside of Chris shoulder due to Chris' head being off center line.

As Chris comes up, Conor JAMS him instantly with a little jab (great timing by Conor) Chris attempts right hook counter off the jab, and Conor counters over his right hook with a beautiful slick CLEAN left counter. Beautiful skill by Conor

Chris pulls away instantly after impact. It almost looks like Conor's left counter doesnt land but it landed clean. You can puase at the direct moment of impact. One thing Chris is good at is that after eating a shot he instantly disengages not allowing any follow ups. To judges this would also make it seem like the opponent didnt land on Chris when they did. Conor has landed clean counters on Chris so far

-1:37/1:38 Conor attempts lead left, Chris counters with a right check hook. Chaotic exchange lol. This is the second exchange Chris has won clearly so far

- Starting around 1:39 Conor uses lead hand to measure. Chris changes levels.

Both are doing all the right things. Its a matter of pure skill vs skill and Conor has been coming out on top so far with his skill

Continuing, Chris bends at the waist low to his right. Conor misses with a little uppercut and right. Good slick defense by Chris now. 1:41 Conor adjusts, stops punching and again puts his lead hand out there to keep track of Chris' head. Chris disengages. The third or 4th exchange Chris has won

If youve been keeping track for fun, so far Conor has out landed him and won the majority of boxing exchanges

-1:45 Conor leans away from a jab

- 1:48 Conor leans to his right taking his head off the center line (defensive responsibility) then Conor from that position leads with a left that lands. Chris however does a great job of recognizing Conor's head position and tries to land a left hook after. Conor at the same time shoots a right uppercut. Chris' left hook ends up hitting Conor's shoulder. Nice quick reaction from Conor to get his left arm in tight and deflect the left hook attempt

- Starting around 1:49/50 is a real highlight. Conor touch jabs Chris. Chris responds with a jab. Conor slips inside of it and counters to the body with a beatiful right hook down to the soul of the gut (Conor is going to GAS Nate out in the rematch with this combo) Anway, phenomenal slip and counter to the body by Conor.

Conor again demonstrating fucking beautiful slick boxing skills/defensive skills and countering skills. Conor very elusive with subtle head movement and ripping slip & counters

Instantly after that is another high light reel from Conor

- 1:51 After Conor lands the beautiful slip and counter to the body, Conor pivots out, plants his feet, tucked behind his lead shoulder in the philly shell, and fucking rips a BEAUTIFUL uppercut counter as Chris tries to step in with a left to the body.

Chris eats that slick uppercut by Conor and tries to muster up a right hook to the body. Conor is dominating the boxing exchanges now during this stretch.

- 1:53/54 Conor still in philly shell. Chris jabs. Conor picks it off his lead shoulder. More great defense by Conor

- 1:55 Conor's jab draws Chris into a high guard. Conor sneaks left lead through top of his head gear almost lol

Conor again uses lead hand as blinder but tries to follow up with a left hook instead.

When you use lead hand as blinder you generally want to follow up to the body where they cant see. Chris also recongizes Conor just left hooked, that his left is down, and times a right hook off it. Only second mistake made by Conor so far. Beautiful timing by Chris. Only the second CLEAN right hook Chris has landed on Conor so far

After Conor eats the counter right hook, Conor leans away from a follow up jab by Chris

Conor backs into the ropes. 1:59 Again Chris steps in with left hook to the body and again Conor has his feet planted ready to time him with an uppercut counter. It misses off the mark a little (due to Chris being off center when firing left hook to body) Chris follows up with right hook to the body. As Chris tries to combo with right hook up top Conor pulls away making it miss.

Conor has picked up on Chris' pattern of stepping in with lefts to the body when ever Conor disengages but remains in range, and is exploiting with uppercut counters. Beautiful counter IQ and counter work being displayed by Conor.

Starting at 2:01 more beautiful slick highlight reel work by Conor. Conor shoots the left almost like a jab, it gets Chris to slip to the outside. Conor then follows up with a right uppercut as he pivots out turning Chris with the uppercut.

Again, both doing the right things. Skill vs skill and Conor is winning the exchanges quite handily during this stretch with superior boxing skill and IQ vs this former champion boxer. Amazing

After Conor uppercuts+pivots and turns Chris, Conor is now moving to his right. 2:02 Chris follows and shoots a jab, Conor slips outside of it, lands beautiful uppercut counter + plants his feet, shoots a left straight as he changes direction and circles out to his left.

Holy snaps what fucking slick defensive skill, countering skill, and footwork by Conor.

If you understand the sweet science you will appreciate the skill Conor is displaying right now

And the sparring finally ends!!

Use my breakdown/cliff notes with times attached as reference points, so you can replay those moments again and again as you read the descriptions of what was truly happening to better see what was truly going on

Hopefully now that you can better understand what was going on you can better appreciate the level of slick boxing skill Conor has/showed.

If this were to go to a judges score card Conor handidly won this 10-9. Very impressive stuff to see. Conor has proven that his boxing skill is legit as fuck against this former champion boxer.

The things that really stood out:

1. Conor's timing and countering is a thing of pure beauty even by boxing standards

2. Conor has great footwork and superb defense. Conor's ability to slip punches and counter in one motion with such fludity is seriously impressive

Now flaws:

If anything, the only thing we can realy say is, Conor could really control exchanges with an iron fist and dominate far more effortlessly if he improved on these 2 things:

1. Using jab more offensively (instead of only for misdirections)

2. Controlling his out put a little better. Conor punches so much he gives countering oppurtunites, despite Conor's defense being slick enough and stiffling/avoiding most of it, its still something Conor could tighten up to really shut down opponents. Pick the right times to throw and make them all count. Control when the exchanges occur etc. But none the less Conor has very much developed into an OFFENSIVE COUNTER PUNCHER ALA GGG

Chris is no slouch, so all in all this was insanely impressive of Conor.

Its much different compared to Nick Diaz getting raped by Omar Henry in sparring and Anderson getting raped by a no name amature at Wild Card

Conor has been the most impressive MMA striker in boxing of all the sparring videos we have. Conor def has the best boxing of any UFC fighter past or present. Of course Conor isnt going to ever out box Floyd, but lets still appreciate the level of pure boxing skill Conor still brings into MMA. Cheers


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A lot of MMA fans dont know boxing. This ignorance has lead to posts like:

"Conor has bad boxing, bad defense, stuck in the mud" - what ever they can come up with.

Hopefully this thread educates the common MMA fan and we can get to the bottom of the truth!

I have decided to do a complete and thorough breakdown of every exchange during this fun sparring session, so MMA fans can go back, rewind, and better understand what was going on. Also to satisfy those who want that deeper understanding of what they were watching. The sparring was in good fun, this breakdown is in good fun:)

Its a very long read because im breakding down every moment. Trust me. Im covering it all

Just want to pre-face with this. Very rarely will we ever get to see a champion level MMA striker sparring with a championship level boxer on video. Very..very cool to see. I mean theres video of Anderson Silva sparring at Wild card and geting schooled by some no name amature. It really put to light how insanely over-rated Anderson was as an "MMA boxer" by fanboys, but sadly it left a stigma that MMA fighters cant box. Its awesome to see Conor come in with legit boxing skill and actually prove that wrong. Its great to see Conor undo the damage Anderson did. Boxing fans respect MMA because they respect Conor's skills. Up until this point we had never seen an MMA striker actually win the boxing sparring against a championship level boxer. Yeah I know, its just sparring, but still lol. Pretty special to see from Conor. Lots of fun to discuss. Its a fun watch. As an MMA fan you should get behind Conor representing MMA this well. Great to be an MMA fan/Conor fan. Enough of that. Now lets gets to it:)



- Conor opens up with a body jab

- Pay attention to 0:09. As Conor is cutting off the ring, he has an angle on Chris, Chris throws a right hook, Conor slips to his outside shoulder and counters with a left.

Very fluid the way Conor just slips (or leans) and drops the left - like its all one motion. Conor is a very smooth slick counter puncher - even by boxing standards, as Conor's sparring partner revealed in interviews afterwards

- At 0:16 Conor feints, feints, then uses his lead hand as a blinder to sneak a left to the body. Very slick boxing skill from Conor.

That is similar to what Floyd actually does. Floyd will throw a feeler right hand, and keep it out there to blind his opponent for a left hook to the side of the body.

Conor uses his lead hand as a blinder to sneak his lefts to the body.

Conor follows that up with a short left hook up top. Chris counters with a soft right. Conor rolls back with it.

- Starting from 0:20 the pace rapidly picks up. Both lossening up and getting into it.

-As Chris shifts weight to throw a body shot, Conor sees it and changes levels with him simultaneously throwing a body jab. Conor smoothers Chris' body shot and takes it on his inside shoulder

When an opponent changes levels, you change levels with them. For Conor to be showing this kind of subtle knowledge against an opponent of that level, it really demonstartes just how much Conor has studied different positions - their solutions, and truly understands the finer details of the sweet science.

- Instantly after, Conor probes with his lead hand. Chris counters with a right

- Conor picks up on this, and now knows Chris likes to counter with his lead and prefers his right hand to his left. So what happens next? Conor is ready with that brilliant timing. Chris throws his right again - a jab - and Conor slips to the inside of it and counters with a right hook to the body

Absolutely beautiful legit boxing skill/defense/countering being demonstarted by Conor so far.

Conor is winning the boxing exchanges in pure boxing skill against a former champion boxer. A far cry from the videos of Anderson getting embaressed by some no name amature at Wild Card

- 0:25 Conor bobs to his left side right into a right hook to the body. Chris follows up with a right. Because Conor is holding the phone with his left hand Conor picks off the right off his glove. Beautiful defensive responsibility by Conor.

(Conor actually does keep his hands up in positions that require it. WHEN Conor has his hands down - its when he knows he can - and can come back with a counter instantly)

- After the beautiful slip and right hook counter to the body from Conor, Conor starts circling to his right to get Chris to follow into a lead. At 0:27 Conor leads with a jab left straight combo. Chris did good of not following and pulling away from the left. Left misses

- Starting at 0:29 after Conor comes up short with the left lead, Conor steps right into orthodox.

Assumes an MMA stance lol.

Chris is completely bewildered at this point. Both are essentially at a stand off. Conor likely did this to draw out a rush, plant feet and counter. Conor is waiting like a boxing cobra for a rush, to slip and drop his counter.

- Conor doesnt get the response he wants. 0:36 Conor steps back into southpaw. This gives Chris oppurtunity to lead. Chris opens up with a body jab. Good safe low risk move.

Chris follows up the body jab with jabs up top. Conor is now utilising a philly shell defense. Conor hiding behind his lead shoulder and pulling away from all the jabs and pivoting out. Left follow up to the body from Chris almost glancing off.

- 0:40 Jab from Conor. Jab from Chris. They trade jabs

- Conor bounching on his feet. 0:43 Conor steps to his left, hoping to walk Chris into a lead. Conor has the left counter ready. 0:45 throws it but half cocks it after realising Chris didnt step in. Chris pulls away. Nothing comes of the exchange

- 0:52 Conor leads with a body jab. Leans away behind his lead shoulder picking off the counter jab up top attempt from Chris. Good stuff by Conor

- 0:53 Conor now probing his lead hand, which has many uses. You probe as a range finder, feeler, distance control, to time and snuff out etc.

- 0:54 Chris countering Conor's probing with lead hand by getting low and using head movement. This is what you do against someone probing lead hand out there.

- 0:56 Conor shoots a lead left straight. Again Conor half cocks it and stops when he sees that Chris did not step in.

Chris has good judge of range. Hes applying pressure but staying back just enough to not be in range or will pull back instantly. Chris is no chump.

0:57 Heres a great exchange. I reccomend everyone go over it in slow motion. Very hard to catch in normal speed. Chris leads with a jab. Hard to see if it lands clean, or to the side, or glances. But Conor actually changed head slots while shooting a simultaneous counter jab. If you pause just before 0:58 or at 0:57, you can see Conor's head now in the inside of Chris' jab. Conor counters over it with a left straight.

Brilliant skill by Conor. The level of legit boxing skill/defense/countering Conor has is absurd.

Again, Conor is displaying this against a former championship level boxer. If this doesnt prove how under rated Conor is in pure skill...well then I dont know what will..

So to go over it, Chris throws a jab, Conor shoots a simultaneous counter jab while changing head slots to the inside of Chris' jab, countering over it with a left. Just brilliant by Conor. If you pause at the right time you can see it landed clean.

Chris had already started pulling back after the left. Conor transitions to an uprising jab as he hops in after Chris. Conor's follow up, hop in, uprising jab lands too, BUT I still didnt like Conor chasing like that and his feet leaving the ground. The one mistake Conor has made so far

Conor throws another jab coming forward. If anything it keeps Chris pre-occupied while Conor covers distance or allows him to re-set when he wants to etc

- 1:02 As Chris jabs to Conor's chest, Conor attempts uppercut counter inside of it while out of philly shell stance. Conor now tucked behind his lead shoulder attempting to counter

Conor's uppercut counter just came up short.

-Chris then follows up with a right hook. This is the first punch Chris lands on Conor thats noticably clean (if youve been keeping track Conor has been out landing Chris in clean shots)

- As Chris lands the right hook Conor kind of moves with it and pivots out

- 1:04 Conor now working behind philly shell. As Chris steps around to throw a right hook, Conor pivots out to his right while picking off Chris' right hook from the philly shell. Again, awesome boxing skill by Conor

- 1:07 Conor goes back to using lead hand as a blinder to sneak in the body shot. Conor's tricks and set ups are a treat to watch

- 1:09 both hand fighting now. Chris shoots jab. Conor leans back from it

- 1:14 Conor shoots lead straight, Chris ducks it and shifts to his right as he counters with a right hook to the body, as Chris comes up from the body shot Conor cracks him with a right hook lol. Good exchange. Conor is in there against a high level boxer who KNOWS what hes doing and Conor is still winning out and showcasing legit boxing skill

- 1:16 even though nothing happens, its important to see. Chris changes levels and Conor changes levels with him + fakes an uppercut. Negating any set up or misdirections + getting Chris back upright. Conor has the IQ of a veteran high IQ boxer. Pretty surreal to see for an MMA striker

-1:17 this one was a real high light. Its like a defensive combo from Conor. Conor slips a jab to the outside, slips a jab to the inside, and then pivots out - making Chris miss due to the angle, as Chris can only touch Conor light to the body at the end of it all. Absolute beautiful slick defensive skill by Conor. Such beautiful head and feet movement in unison to make miss. Keep in mind this aint no chump who Conor is sparring.

So far Conor has shown great skill, defense, and countering. Conor is leagues better then Anderson Silva could ever have dreamed of being. Conor is far slicker, far more fundamentally sound, far more diverse, far more complete of a boxer, far superior IQ, far superior set ups and tricks, and just has a far far deeper understanding of boxing then Anderson ever had

- 1:24 This is small but nice. Conor takes a lateral side step to his right cutting off Chris' lateral movement to that direction.

Unreal how much of a complete boxer Conor is. We have seen Conor countering, using set ups, being defensive, being able to lead, cutting off the ring etc. Theres no facet of his boxing that hes truly weak in

- 1:30 Conor feints jab twice to set up a lead left. Chris did good of changing levels once Conor feinted, and likely slips the left from Conor. He certainly pulls back from it

1:34 Chris bends and goes for body jab, Conor attempts left straight counter up top. It misses to the outside of Chris shoulder due to Chris' head being off center line.

As Chris comes up, Conor JAMS him instantly with a little jab (great timing by Conor) Chris attempts right hook counter off the jab, and Conor counters over his right hook with a beautiful slick CLEAN left counter. Beautiful skill by Conor

Chris pulls away instantly after impact. It almost looks like Conor's left counter doesnt land but it landed clean. You can puase at the direct moment of impact. One thing Chris is good at is that after eating a shot he instantly disengages not allowing any follow ups. To judges this would also make it seem like the opponent didnt land on Chris when they did. Conor has landed clean counters on Chris so far

-1:37/1:38 Conor attempts lead left, Chris counters with a right check hook. Chaotic exchange lol. This is the second exchange Chris has won clearly so far

- Starting around 1:39 Conor uses lead hand to measure. Chris changes levels.

Both are doing all the right things. Its a matter of pure skill vs skill and Conor has been coming out on top so far with his skill

Continuing, Chris bends at the waist low to his right. Conor misses with a little uppercut and right. Good slick defense by Chris now. 1:41 Conor adjusts, stops punching and again puts his lead hand out there to keep track of Chris' head. Chris disengages. The third or 4th exchange Chris has won

If youve been keeping track for fun, so far Conor has out landed him and won the majority of boxing exchanges

-1:45 Conor leans away from a jab

- 1:48 Conor leans to his right taking his head off the center line (defensive responsibility) then Conor from that position leads with a left that lands. Chris however does a great job of recognizing Conor's head position and tries to land a left hook after. Conor at the same time shoots a right uppercut. Chris' left hook ends up hitting Conor's shoulder. Nice quick reaction from Conor to get his left arm in tight and deflect the left hook attempt

- Starting around 1:49/50 is a real highlight. Conor touch jabs Chris. Chris responds with a jab. Conor slips inside of it and counters to the body with a beatiful right hook down to the soul of the gut (Conor is going to GAS Nate out in the rematch with this combo) Anway, phenomenal slip and counter to the body by Conor.

Conor again demonstrating fucking beautiful slick boxing skills/defensive skills and countering skills. Conor very elusive with subtle head movement and ripping slip & counters

Instantly after that is another high light reel from Conor

- 1:51 After Conor lands the beautiful slip and counter to the body, Conor pivots out, plants his feet, tucked behind his lead shoulder in the philly shell, and fucking rips a BEAUTIFUL uppercut counter as Chris tries to step in with a left to the body.

Chris eats that slick uppercut by Conor and tries to muster up a right hook to the body. Conor is dominating the boxing exchanges now during this stretch.

- 1:53/54 Conor still in philly shell. Chris jabs. Conor picks it off his lead shoulder. More great defense by Conor

- 1:55 Conor's jab draws Chris into a high guard. Conor sneaks left lead through top of his head gear almost lol

Conor again uses lead hand as blinder but tries to follow up with a left hook instead.

When you use lead hand as blinder you generally want to follow up to the body where they cant see. Chris also recongizes Conor just left hooked, that his left is down, and times a right hook off it. Only second mistake made by Conor so far. Beautiful timing by Chris. Only the second CLEAN right hook Chris has landed on Conor so far

After Conor eats the counter right hook, Conor leans away from a follow up jab by Chris

Conor backs into the ropes. 1:59 Again Chris steps in with left hook to the body and again Conor has his feet planted ready to time him with an uppercut counter. It misses off the mark a little (due to Chris being off center when firing left hook to body) Chris follows up with right hook to the body. As Chris tries to combo with right hook up top Conor pulls away making it miss.

Conor has picked up on Chris' pattern of stepping in with lefts to the body when ever Conor disengages but remains in range, and is exploiting with uppercut counters. Beautiful counter IQ and counter work being displayed by Conor.

Starting at 2:01 more beautiful slick highlight reel work by Conor. Conor shoots the left almost like a jab, it gets Chris to slip to the outside. Conor then follows up with a right uppercut as he pivots out turning Chris with the uppercut.

Again, both doing the right things. Skill vs skill and Conor is winning the exchanges quite handily during this stretch with superior boxing skill and IQ vs this former champion boxer. Amazing

After Conor uppercuts+pivots and turns Chris, Conor is now moving to his right. 2:02 Chris follows and shoots a jab, Conor slips outside of it, lands beautiful uppercut counter + plants his feet, shoots a left straight as he changes direction and circles out to his left.

Holy snaps what fucking slick defensive skill, countering skill, and footwork by Conor.

If you understand the sweet science you will appreciate the skill Conor is displaying right now

And the sparring finally ends!!

Use my breakdown/cliff notes with times attached as reference points, so you can replay those moments again and again as you read the descriptions of what was truly happening to better see what was truly going on

Hopefully now that you can better understand what was going on you can better appreciate the level of slick boxing skill Conor has/showed.

If this were to go to a judges score card Conor handidly won this 10-9. Very impressive stuff to see. Conor has proven that his boxing skill is legit as fuck against this former champion boxer.

The things that really stood out:

1. Conor's timing and countering is a thing of pure beauty even by boxing standards

2. Conor has great footwork and superb defense. Conor's ability to slip punches and counter in one motion with such fludity is seriously impressive

Now flaws:

If anything, the only thing we can realy say is, Conor could really control exchanges with an iron fist and dominate far more effortlessly if he improved on these 2 things:

1. Using jab more offensively (instead of only for misdirections)

2. Controlling his out put a little better. Conor punches so much he gives countering oppurtunites, despite Conor's defense being slick enough and stiffling/avoiding most of it, its still something Conor could tighten up to really shut down opponents. Pick the right times to throw and make them all count. Control when the exchanges occur etc. But none the less Conor has very much developed into an OFFENSIVE COUNTER PUNCHER ALA GGG

Chris is no slouch, so all in all this was insanely impressive of Conor.

Its much different compared to Nick Diaz getting raped by Omar Henry in sparring and Anderson getting raped by a no name amature at Wild Card

Conor has been the most impressive MMA striker in boxing of all the sparring videos we have. Conor def has the best boxing of any UFC fighter past or present. Of course Conor isnt going to ever out box Floyd, but lets still appreciate the level of pure boxing skill Conor still brings into MMA. Cheers

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I present to you all, the idiotic McNugget fan.

Let's all wish him a fond farewell after this stupid circus fight is done because Conor will have retired and this fuckhead can go follow TMZ conor news from there on after.
 
Wow TS has no fuucking life for typing all that bullshiit.

And on top of that couldn't be more wrong.
 
insane TS obsessed with Conor McGregor describes a sparring session of his in full detail. Thinks Conor has the best boxing of all MMA past and present.

Well, who's a better boxer in MMA? And don't say Ray Mercer or James Toney, they're boxers who did a few silly freakshow fights.
 
Well that pretty much says it all. ;)
it does, that some idiot shertard is gonna question you one year later when conor's hype is out of charts, and he won't take any fucking name you give him as example of someone with better boxing. I'm just not interested in that discussion. you go have that with some other fool.
 
The more i see, the less i care about this one. Conor looks plain bad. i think i'll put a grand on floyd. little earnings but free money nontheless
 
it does, that some idiot shertard is gonna question you one year later when conor's hype is out of charts, and he won't take any fucking name you give him as example of someone with better boxing. I'm just not interested in that discussion. you go have that with some other fool.

I asked you for a name. And now you're saying I won't take a name? Jesus Chirst, are you a female? You're definitely as illogical, emotional, and lacking self awareness as one. All you could have said was, "yeah, I changed my mind" or "yeah, Conor is up there but I still think there are these (insert names) guys who box better" but no, you just avoided the question like a woman does in an argument. And you did it with your nose up in the air like it's going to fool others into thinking you're still right. Pathetic.
 
Conor didn't even look that bad. If anything the other guy does because he was a former champ? Seriously? LOL
 
I asked you for a name. And now you're saying I won't take a name? Jesus Chirst, are you a female? You're definitely as illogical, emotional, and lacking self awareness as one. All you could have said was, "yeah, I changed my mind" or "yeah, Conor is up there but I still think there are these (insert names) guys who box better" but no, you just avoided the question like a woman does in an argument. And you did it with your nose up in the air like it's going to fool others into thinking you're still right. Pathetic.
a woman would just ignore you though
 
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