Cocky coach calls KO against Mayweather

CONOR McGregor’s coach John Kavanagh has made a huge prediction for the megafight with boxing champion Floyd Mayweather – a KO in the sixth round.

Kavanagh is already describing McGregor as “one of the best boxers in the world” and is just as confident in his fighter’s chances as the Mayweather camp is in the poundfor-pound champ.

“They don’t expect Conor to land a punch. They don’t expect to win – they expect it to be an absolute walk in the park,” Kavanagh said.

“I don’t expect this to be the hardest fight of all time for Conor. I expect him to go in there and completely dominate. So, one of us is living in a delusion.

“But I really find it hard to imagine anything else other than Conor really putting on a clinic and destroying him.”

Kavanagh, who has been by McGregor’s side his entire career, has been blown away by the growth in his fighter’s striking.

“I know that guy [Mayweather] wouldn’t do five or six boxing rounds with this guy. He has gone to a complete new level,” Kavanagh said.

He gave a slightly more detailed prediction for Sunday’s bout, saying it will go one of two ways.

“When the two of them walk to the middle, one of them has to take a back step. If Floyd takes a back step, which I believe he will, then I predict round six,” Kavanagh said.

“For the first five rounds he will back up, he will lie on the ropes the way he does, he will cover up and try to just absorb, and try to wear Conor down.

“That’s how I think he’ll approach the fight.

“If he doesn’t take a back step . . . if he walks forward and exchanges, it’ll be a one-round fight. It’ll be over in a minute.

“Because he’d be fighting in such a way that’s not normal to him, he won’t have had time to develop the skill set for an aggressive exchanging fighter.

“But I think he skips to the middle, I think he has his classic hand position . . . and he’ll feint and throw a jab or something, Conor will walk forward, [Mayweather will] back up and he’ll aim to just pot-shot, cover up, cover up, pot-shot, clinch, potshot, and just try to get through the first couple of rounds.

“As I believe that will be the case ... I think round six, Conor’s hand is raised.”