So realistically -- what's McGregor's game plan?

[W1LL]

LOL. Ref will ensure that Conor McGregor stays within range as long as it lasts.

[BoxingFan85]

McGregor's game plan..
1) He should forget it is a boxing match & land a knee to the head once in a while..
2) He should lie on the floor & invite Floyd to come at him (no h0mo) so that he can put on a shoulder lock.. It would stop Floyd from doing that shoulder roll he copied from Berto..
3) He should get his corner men also into the ring on 4 vs 1 assault WWE style..
4) Last but not least.. He should get his old plumbing tools(wrench, plunger & ****) & beat Floyd up..

[Eff Pandas]

I legit think Conor has delusional caliber belief in himself. So I tend to think he's not in on the joke that he's gonna lose this.

I legit think Conor believes he can KO Floyd. I would assume he's hoping to do that via non-boxer awkwardness, something that makes this a weird fight & does add a degree of difficulty, however small, for Floyd, & just hitting Floyd really hard via that awkward I imagine. For the lack of conventional boxing skills Conor has he is one of the most accurate strikers in MMA. I'd consider him the Floyd of MMA in regards to his accuracy in fact.

The problem & the hole in Conor's delusional belief in himself plan, beyond the obvious, is his defense is likely to be garbage or highly flawed at best (in MMA you damn near lose points for using defense or for "point fighting" as are huge advantages for Floyd in any fight). MMA guys also have little regard for conserving energy since fights tend to be shorter (15mins for most fights, 25 mins for title fights) & I don't believe that is a mindset or strategy that can be easily altered. Its also notable that Conor is a classic front runner with only 2 of his 20 odd fights last beyond the 10 minute mark so he's for sure not ready for a 10/12 round 30-36 minute fight in a sport he's never competed & I don't believe that's something that's lost on him in particular after gassing & basically quitting vs Nate Diaz a couple fights back. So my assumption is he's planning to come out hard, rough & fast to take Floyd out quick by any means possible outside of a head kick or spinning backfist so if this fight doesn't end Conor's way in the first 3 rounds he's eating jabs & looking like a complete & utter a$$hole swinging for shadows the last 9 rounds or until Floyd takes him out. I'll be highly surprised if there is much feeling out here at all on Conor's part. Its likely to be short & sweet with Conor doing some miracle sh^t or extremely more likely Floyd teeing off on Conor & making it look like the easiest 9 digit payday in the history of the world.

[Sp0rty Cr@ig]

Pull an Andre Dirrell/Montell Griffin & try to get hit after bell or when he is knocked down. Then pretend to be knocked out to get the W.

[j0zef]

Plan is to make a ton of money and give Dana the middle finger.

Also, over/under the # of times he 'accidentally' kicks Floyd?

[MrRolltide91]

And how bad is this dude going to potentially look? He barely registers at an amateur boxing level, and if you go by some of the dude's shadow boxing clips that have surfaced -- jeezus, man. It's possible that he's not even at an amateur level for f**k's sake. Going up against the best boxer of this generation, and very arguably, the most prolific defensive boxer in the entire history of the sport.

Only thing that McGregor has advantage wise is age. How old is Floyd now? 41?

So what's this guy's game plan? Just disregard defense entirely and attempt to walk Floyd down and just throw as many hail mary bombs as he can and hope he hits the lottery? I mean obviously if he tried to box him, lmao, it might very well be the most embarrassing display of "boxing" that we've ever seen at this level of the sport.

If you're in McGregor's corner how are you approaching this?

He gon come for the KO

[J.Dempsey]

I agree with some of the others.
Go dirty dirty dirty as possible and come In as big as possible (he's the bigger man right)
No way try box. He needs to mma as much as he legally can lol

[Lester Tutor]

Pull an Andre Dirrell/Montell Griffin & try to get hit after bell or when he is knocked down. Then pretend to be knocked out to get the W.

Lol. What if that actually happens and Arum asks Haymon for some weed, while Abel Sanchez is watching Jeff Mayweather ****ing Kathy Duva and Kovalev is on napster

[Jewish-Reptile]

His strategy is to be in that ring when the first bell rings and his strategy 'pays' off.

Very simple and anybody who buys it is a dumb ass sucker.