Coach tips Conor to land KO punch in six rounds

CONOR McGregor’s coach John Kavanagh has landed a massive prediction for Sunday’s mega- fight with boxing champion Floyd Mayweather – KO in the sixth round.

Kavanagh is already describing MMA champion McGregor as “one of the best boxers in the world”.

“They don’t expect Conor to land a punch. They don’t ex- pect ( him) to win – they expect it to be an absolute walk in the park,” Kavanagh said this week.

“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 ca- reer, has been blown away by the growth in his pupil’s striking.

“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 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.

“For him to go in there and try to trade with Conor and not walk backwards would be so alien to him but so normal for Conor.”