The amount of people who can't grasp this about Floyd & Conor is fucking disturbing. You wouldn't believe how many times I've seen people claim Floyd would beat conor the same in mma because conor has "no grappling".
I don't even wanna check the comments on that post because it'll just annoy me
And there it is. And you're an actual mma fan aswell. How is it possible for you to think like that? Extraordinary...You think Sean will still be conscious after he gets hit a few times by Garcia? Ryan will only have to hit him once with that left hook or his straight right hand. You know how many submission wins Sean has in his entire career? One. He's purely a standup fighter. A showman. The kind that will likely want to stand with anyone. He's that confident in his striking.
Can Sean grapple? Yeah, he just sucks at it. Especially at wrestling which is why we never see him using it in MMA. He recognizes this.
“I came down to Arizona. Literally for 10 days, every time I left practice I was crying.
When it came to wrestling, I didn’t know how to fu*king wrestle to save my life. Kickboxing I would do okay, I would do alright, but when it came to like grappling days… I had zero chance.
I would leave the gym fu*king crying.”
Sean O’Malley: “I Didn’t Know How To Fu*king Wrestle To Save My Life”
How much of a grappling standout do you think someone has to be (in MMA) for them to be effective with it against someone who literally doesn't even train grappling? It's like you don't even understand the concept of MMA. Yes Sean's a striker... when he's fighting other MMA fighters. And Sean's quote is about when he first started grappling, over a decade ago. That's 10 years of grappling, but not enough to use against someone with zero apparently.
Garcia ain't getting past those kicks anyway. Done in seconds